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Congratulations Charlie Dalin #vendéeglobe It took Robin Knox-Johnston 312 days to circumnavigate the globe in 1969; Dalin just did it in 64.

What a race. Richomme and Dalin neck and neck as they approach Cape Horn after 43 days #vendeeglobe

Calls for bishop to resign...

Dalin and Simon in the eye of the storm #vendeeglobe

Spare a thought for the Vendée Globe competitors in the deep Indian Ocean at the moment.

The perfect Christmas gift for the Rivals fan in your life

As someone who grew up next to a Somerset trunk road I have to say that this story really captures the alienating feel of those roads

Spotted next to a jetty in Devon. Project Kraken is surely a TV series waiting to be made. www.met.police.uk/advice/advic...

Quite the back cover

One thing really shocked me in Threads: people panic buying lychees, in 1984.

Was it that Pierrepoint? Did they name roads after him?

When a quarter pounder is just that little bit too big

A detective challenge for @boakandbailey.bsky.social . Which pub was Professor Pete Smith born in? He gives away a few clues in this episode of The Life Scientific but I can't see the answer anywhere online www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Treading that fine line between inspiring ambition and the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Just remembering that time that France bombed Greenpeace

Two paragraphs in Denis Healy's autobiography that feel like they could be a book in themselves.

I'm halfway through Eye of the Needle and it's ok but, as I was warned, Follett is no Forsyth #bskybc

That stew