How to make an 11th Century castle fit for the future

BBC England Friday 11 September 2026, 05:09 UTC 1 min read

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The £2m conservation project at Corfe Castle in Dorset is finished after three years of work.

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The country is one of just three that still permits commercial whaling, while its government has faced mounting pressure to ban the practiceIceland will submit a bill in February 2027 which could permanently ban whaling in its waters, a move that would leave Norway and Japan as the only two countries to permit commercial whaling. Whaling in Iceland has been put under intense scrutiny since a government-commissioned report was published in 2023 that found harpooned whales took two hours to...

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How to make an 11th Century castle fit for the future

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