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AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL dig has uncovered the hidden industrial heritage of a west Cumbrian village.

Dearham Parish Council wanted to develop an overgrown part of the village park for use as a recreation facility, but an evaluation of the site revealed that there was an 19th century pottery buried there.

A £10,000 grant from Awards for All – a national lottery scheme – and the Cumbria Community Trust enabled them to employ a team of archaeologists to assess the site.

Village dig: Front row left to right, Jack Burns, 9, Eleanor Herbert, 9, Liam Stephenson, 9, back row left to right, Shauna Pike, 10, Amy Gallimore, 9, all from Dearham Primary School

Couldn't they have found a bit more money in order to hire 'professionals'

That's how it works over this side of the pond. Sadly there's not too many local experts who'll work for a lion bar and a can of tizer.

Scientists have discovered a dramatic variation in the genetic make-up of humans that could lead to a fundamental reappraisal of what causes incurable diseases and could provide a greater understanding of mankind.

The discovery has astonished scientists studying the human genome - the genetic recipe of man. Until now it was believed the variation between people was due largely to differences in the sequences of the individual " letters" of the genome.

It now appears much of the variation is explained instead by people having multiple copies of some key genes that make up the human genome.

Until now it was assumed that the human genome, or "book of life", is largely the same for everyone, save for a few spelling differences in some of the words. Instead, the findings suggest that the book contains entire sentences, paragraphs or even whole pages that are repeated any number of times.

The findings mean that instead of humanity being 99.9 per cent identical, as previously believed, we are at least 10 times more different between one another than once thought - which could explain why some people are prone to serious diseases

New genetic evidence suggests Australia may have been populated by two separate groups of humans, one arriving via Papua New Guinea, the other via Indonesia, a researcher says.

That's a long way from New Mexico.

Fact or Fiction?: Archimedes Coined the Term "Eureka!" in the Bath

VATICAN archaeologists have confirmed that St Paul was buried beneath the Roman church bearing his name.

They said they have identified

a Roman sarcophagus beneath the main altar and an epigraph: Paul apostle-martyr.

Marduk: even if it wasn't they'd still say it was ... money money money

Digit: I don't believe this! Marduk and I agree on something!