With the cloud hiding most signs of modernity — a notable exception being the well-worn paths — I can’t help thinking that this a timeless view

It is certainly a view the young James Cook would have recognised while he lived with his family at Aireyholme Farm.

Cook of course would go on to achieve fame with his navigational exploits in the Pacific, beginning with h ...

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A day of strange atmospherics

On this day in 2005, at 0601 in the morning, a huge explosion rocked an oil depot in Buncefield near Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. It was the largest in peacetime Europe and the noise is said to have been heard as far away as the Netherlands.

I seem to remember people at work saying they had heard the boom ...

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A temperature inversion covered the lowlands around Stokesley this morning, inching up the steep banks of the Cleveland Hills

The sheep munching away on the col between Cringle and Cold Moors are apathetically unaware of the creeping cloud.

The distinctive red earth is a spoil heap from jet working that has been burnt to convert the ...

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Frosty #temperatureinversion out front this morning. There's a valley, village and major road somewhere down there in the clouds! #weather #winter #firstfrost #NorthEastEngland