Persistent rain and low cloud set an unusual backdrop for the Typhoon display over Eastbourne. As weather closed in along the ...

Leg 15 to 24 (combining the South and South East sections) can easily be reached by Surrey, with Portsmouth, Hayling Island, ...

As part of the Guardian’s Against the tide series, readers aged 18 to 30 share what they love about living in their coastal town, the challenges and why they often choose to leave ...

New DNA analysis of the remains of a Roman-era individual known as Beachy Head Woman indicates that she came from ...

ONE of the UK’s prettiest English seaside towns is getting new direct trains to the capital city Eastbourne was once ...

Using cutting-edge DNA analysis, scientists at London’s Natural History Museum have uncovered the true identity and origins ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

New DNA research reveals the woman long believed to be the first Black Briton was actually white and from Roman-era southern ...

A woman billed as the 'first black Briton' was in fact white and from southern England, according to new DNA analysis. For years it has been believed that 'Beachy Head Woman' – an ancient skeleton who ...

The identity of a mysterious Roman-era skeleton found in southern England may have finally been resolved. While previous research suggested the Beachy Head Woman may have had recent sub-Saharan Africa ...

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural History Museum were able to sequence high quality DNA from her skeletal ...