On the rugged moorland of Dartmoor Common, hill farmer Colin Abel, 57, stands in the bright spring sunshine with his collie Pixie, surveying his land. Just east of Tavistock, Devon, it is a ...

A huge black snake was spotted by a visitor to Dartmoor on Sunday (March 9). The creature, a black adder, is the only venomous snake living in the wild in the UK and was spotted on the east side ...

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The man who died in an apparent accident at Calhoun Quarry on Wednesday has been identified. 67-year-old Anthony Sievers of Batchtown has been named by the Jersey County Coroner. An official cause of ...

SAN ANTONIO - A groundbreaking historical discovery has finally pinpointed the quarry that provided the limestone used to construct the Alamo, solving a long-standing mystery about the origins of ...

Walleys Quarry Ltd (WQL), which ran Walleys Quarry in Silverdale, Staffordshire, was confirmed to have gone into liquidation on Friday. The site has been the subject of more than a decade of ...

Now horse rider Dee Wilkinson says a friend was thrown from her horse after a sudden run-in with a boar.Dee, who lives near Princetown, on Dartmoor National Park, has even filmed the wild animals ...

A new quarry has opened in Surrey which will aim to supply "key" infrastructure projects in London and the Surrey area by excavating more than one million tonnes of sand and gravel from area in ...

Quarry Bank in Cheshire was severely affected when the River Bollin broke its banks and caused "extensive erosion and a major landslide in the gardens", a representative said. They said it was ...

Dartmoor National Park Authority has announced the return of the popular Meldon Wildlife Festival, set to take place on Tuesday, August 20. The event, which is free and open to all, will be held at ...