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Horrified father relives moment his son, 17, was buried alive and suffocated to death in sand tunnel on beach: 'He didn't even have time to scream'
Riccardo Boni, 17, was on holiday with his family on Thursday when tragedy struck on the popular Montalto di Castro beach in ...
Church seeks to exhume head of Catholic martyr Sir Thomas More… 500 years after it was put on a pike
THE head of Sir Thomas More, the Catholic martyr and former Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII, could soon be dug up, five centuries after it was boiled and placed on a pike. St Dunstan’s Church in ...
When building sandcastles and tunnels, beware collapsing sand
The Conversation notes that, while digging holes in sand might seem innocent, if the hole is deep enough and collapses on a person, it is extremely difficult to escape.