Jess Eggarts' new Buttermonkey Vintage and Arts in Rochester's Gonic Mills offers a mind-boggling selection of merchandise.

A competition run by a council to find out which pothole filling machine was most efficient has resulted in – a draw. Gloucestershire County Council ran trials with the JCB Pothole Pro ...

Prominent among these are the Electric Telegraph, the Reaper and Mower, and the Sewing-Machine ... pincers to alternately draw the needle back and forth. This crude machine was scarcely heard ...