The UK has some pretty spectacular beaches. From the Cornish coast to the 'English Mediterranean', buzzing Brighton to gothic ...

By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

The velocity of light in vacuum, c, is approximately 3 × 10 8 m s −1, fast enough to make 7.5 round-the-world trips in a single second, and to move a distance of 300 mm in 1 ns. This ultrahigh speed ...