BCRA Cave Science Symposium, AGM and Field Trips
Symposium - Saturday 11th October 202 Field trips - Sunday 12th October 2025 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol Register here at the eventbrite ...
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Book Review: Maidens of the Cave
Alan Jeffreys heads over to the American mid-West for an enjoyable underground murder romp in company with an appropriately named main character. Crime fiction searches ...
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Unlock Mendip – The Wessex Challenge 2025
In just over two weeks time the Bristol Exploration Club (BEC) will be hosting the next Wessex Challenge at the Belfry on Mendip! The event ...
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DNA from Fishmonger’s Swallet, South Gloucestershire, helps map evolution of fever-causing bacteria
A human jawbone housed in a small Bristol museum has contributed ancient DNA to ground-breaking research into bacteria. The jawbone was found in Fishmonger’s Swallet, ...
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BCRA Cave Science Symposium and AGM
Symposium - Saturday 11th October 2025 Field trips - Sunday 12th October 2025 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol FIRST CIRCULAR The British Cave ...
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Book review: Hidden Inside the Highlands
For anyone who has ever struggled to explain the allure of venturing underground, Paul Savage recommends taking awhistle-stop tour beneath the Highlands in the company ...
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Jim dives to new depth record in Ireland
Jim Warny is the latest to break the record for deep cave dives in Ireland and the UK - even if he did admit that ...
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Descent Magazine: Issue 303 Out Soon
Descent magazine is renowned for its excellent coverage of caves and cavers and, judging from the preview, the forthcoming issue is continuing that tradition. Chris ...
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The Godstone Collapse: beyond the news reports
"GODSTONE - Falling-in of the Roadway – Breakage of the Water Main." The news headline above doesn't come from any of the reports on the ...
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Correspondent: Nick Harding. Axbridge Caving Group have broken into the long lost Upper Canada Cave in Hutton, near Western-super-Mare. The discovery of Upper Canada Cave came about ...
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The BBC Earth site is reporting the discovery of a pair of mummified cave lion cubs which have emerged from thawing ice in Siberia. Uyan and Dina ...
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Cavers Stuart France and Nigel Rogers are involved in the on-going dispute over closing or gating the Drws Cefn entrance to Ogof Draenen in South ...
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In what promises, along with Eurospeleo 2016, to be one of the biggest events of next year the 2016 National Speleological Society are holding their convention ...
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We've started adding club pages to the site. Although we'll add a page for a club as we come across relevant stories this is also ...
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Sixteen UWFRA members attended a call out at Heber's Gyhll near Ilkley on Saturday assisting a 61 year old male who had fallen five metres into ...
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Congratulations to the Soggy Bottom Digging Team for their magnificent effort in Home Close Hole during the past year. They are worthy winners of the ...
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Four years after the rock falls that not only radically altered the 3rd pitch but also blocked the way on to the 4th and 5th ...
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DI Tony McLean struggles to find a link between a series of bizarre killings in Edinburgh. Prayer for the Dead, the fifth book in James ...
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Due to instability in the entrance series St Cuthbert’s has been closed until work to fix the problem has been carried out. The BEC committee ...
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If, like us, you've a pile of old toners, ink cartridges or old mobile phones lying around the office (well not so many mobiles admittedly) ...
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Over the weekend during a rescue on Ingleborough a Bristow Search and Rescue helicopter landed to discuss the incident with CRO Rescue Controllers and were unable to ...
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Garrison in Southern Indiana is a town that’s harbouring quite a few secrets, as Mark Novak discovers to his cost when he’s sent to look ...
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Archaeologists and cavers working together have recovered skulls and bones as well as noting strange wall markings from an unnamed cave in the Yorkshire Dales. The story to date ...
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John Tudek is a caver and artist who is releasing a series of cartoons which under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commerical Licence, which means clubs ...
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UPDATE (24th Nov 2015) : NAMHO Council have accepted the offer by WCMS to host NAMHO 2017. The Wealden Cave and Mine Society (WCMS) have ...
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Do you fancy working for the British Caving Association? Along with the news that the two of the BCA council are wanting to step down ...
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The latest edition of the BCA newsletter is now available (October 2015). This is the first electronic only newsletter - paper copies will no longer ...
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