Marston Green Tavern reopened after major remodel to honour greatly missed regular
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Un portal al inframundo nel antiguo misterio romano
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Turkey s mysterious portal to the underworld
By Bella Falk29th June 2021
The ancient city of Hierapolis has long hidden a poisonous secret in its mysterious Gate to Hell . But modern science has finally uncovered the truth behind the Roman myths.
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In Pamukkale in western Turkey, an enormous white rock formation towers over the surrounding plain. The gleaming mountain of petrified limestone cascades to the valley floor, creased with frozen stalactites and tessellated with hundreds of pools of sparkling turquoise water.
These otherworldly formations are travertines, limestone cliffs slowly created over 400,000 years by the bubbling up of mineral springs. As the water flows down the hillside it degasses, leaving behind a vast deposit of bright white calcium carbonate that s almost 3km long and 160m high. This is not the only place where travertines occur – Huanglong in China and Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park are other famous examples – but the ones at Pam
Nant Wyllt Near Cefn Coch THE number of egg laying hens at a farm near Cefn Coch is set to increase by 50 per cent. Mr S Isaac has been given planning consent to add a building which will house an extra 6,000 free range chickens on the farm west of Nant Gwyllt around 1.5 miles from the village of Cefn Coch. He was given planning permission to build a free-range poultry unit for 12,000 hens back in July 2018. The new building will be 44.5 metres long, 21.5metres wide and have a maximum height of 6.1 metres, this would give a floor area of 957 square metres and be built north of the existing units.