Book Review: The Body in the Dales
Yorkshire copper DCI Jim Oldroyd gets caught up in the mystery of a body found down a well-known cave. There’s certainly no shortage of suspects ...
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BCRA Cave Archaeology Group Field Trip – Poole’s Cavern 9th/10th May 2026
Join the BCRA Cave Archaeology Group at the British Cave Science Centre at Poole’s Cavern, Buxton on the 9th/10th May 2026 for a programme of ...
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Book Review: A Rock and a Hard Place
Scottish caves have turned up again in crime fiction ... JD Kirk (a pen-name for writer Barry Hutchison) has written 21 novels featuring DCI Jack ...
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The Giles Barker award for 2025 goes to …
The Giles Barker Award is presented to any person connected with any aspect of cave photography in recognition of excellence or contributions to the field; ...
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The Tratman Award for 2024 goes to …
The Tratman Award is presented annually to the best caving-related, paper-based publication in memory of UBSS member Professor E.K. ‘Trat’ Tratman. Chris Howes, on behalf ...
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Cave and Karst Science Vol 51 No 2: Hypogene karst in Yorkshire and ancient burial on Mendip
The latest edition of Cave and Karst Science is now with us. It contains six papers and a photo spread. Max Moseley discusses Charles Chilton ...
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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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The long awaited NPC Journal: explorations and happenings 1987-2015 is finally out. Price is £16 plus P&P direct from the club. Get your copy by ...
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A new cave has been found in Carmarthenshire by a team of ten cavers from South Wales. The cave was dug throughout much of 2015, ...
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Phil Papard has recently published the Matienzo 2015 report on the Matienzo web site. With around fifty cavers involved at various times throughout the year 2015 ...
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Mine-explorers usually have a passion for what remains above ground as well as delving deep into the earth. Groverake Fluorspar Mine closed in 1999 and ...
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The BBC reports on research work in two-mile-deep gold mines in South Africa where strange nematode worms have been found living deep within the rock ...
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Please note the date of the Earby dinner has changed to the 13th February 2016. With the end 2015 fast approaching the Earby Pothole Club will soon ...
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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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