The launch of rockets fired vertically into space from a tiny island in Britain is a step closer with the granting of a key safety licence. SaxaVord Spaceport on Unst has been given permission by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to clear
The neighbourhood with the strongest English identity is actually a tiny village in Wales. As England marks St George’s Day on Tuesday (April 23), Government statistics show fewer than one in six people (14 per cent) across the country identify as “English
Europe’s richest royal family hails from a tiny nation that has traditionally not played a role on the world stage but is worth more than 100-fold King Charles III. Liechtenstein, one of the smallest countries in Europe, is a principality located between
A tiny island of “huge military value” has been the subject of a bitter dispute between two countries for several decades and has borders shared by three. Conejo Island – Rabbit Island – sits between two bays in the Gulf of Fonseca
A tiny little European country has been named the best place to live in the world, but it isn’t cheap. Monaco is a city-state on the French Riviera, bordered by France on three sides and the sea on the other. It is
Archaeologists working in the sleepy little village of Grove, Oxfordshire, stumbled upon the find of a lifetime after finding the Roman villa. It came during survey works for a new housing development. The site sits along a region rich in history inhabited
A little almost unknown already semi-autonomous state has shunned changes proposed by its wider country of Somalia. Puntland now says that it will hold a referendum on whether to accept the African country’s changes to its constitution – including a return to
A small town in the Arctic is preparing for war with Putin. Ivalo in Finland is just 20 miles of forest from the Russian border. The military base near the town has been called NATO’s “Arctic Sparta”. It is the closest that
The top military chief of one of the smallest countries in the European Union said his nation must double its defence spending over the next two years. By doing so, the nation could not only defend itself against a feared Russian invasion,
A tiny country with aspiratons to join the Ukraine-supporting European Union is home to a territory that is openly a staunch ally of President Putin. Republika Srpska occupies two border regions of the former Yugoslavian country of Bosnia and Herzegovina and is