The soaking conditions come just days after Britain's hottest May day ever recorded.

A research centre had mapped out Britain's genetic make-up and, in the process, revealed some interesting facts about the historical origins of its citizens. In particular, the map created by the ...

Meeting up for a cool drink with friends is now a lot easier thanks to one man who turned his heat nightmare into a ...

Under the stewardship of geographer Sir Dudley Stamp, thousands of volunteers (including many schoolchildren) came together in the 1930s on a mission that sounds relatively simple on paper: to record ...