Julian Osbaldstone

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Night vision, satellites and the 500-day hunt for a feral sausage dog

1 week ago | thetimes.com | James Salmon |Julian Osbaldstone
One gram of ketamine and its 4,000-mile journey to the UK

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Katie Gatens |Heather Elliott |Matilda Davies |Julian Osbaldstone
How the first Thames tunnel in 50 years was built on time

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Andy Silvester |Julian Osbaldstone
Our farm’s valued at £8m - under new rules we’d barely break even

Nov 23, 2024 | thetimes.com | Ben Spencer |Tom Calver |Julian Osbaldstone

The din in the chicken barn is almost overwhelming. Thousands of hens cluck, squawk and peck as they bustle through low doors from the frosty fields outside. “You want them to be noisy,” said Peter Brown, 70. “If it’s quiet you know there’s something wrong.” Peter is the third generation of Browns to farm this land on the Suffolk-Cambridgeshire border. His son Daniel, 42 — with whom he runs the farm — is the fourth. “My grandfather Jonathan Brown started here in 1912,” Peter said.
How we uncovered the crimes of the UK’s worst catfisher

Nov 9, 2024 | thetimes.com | Patrick O’Donoghue |Julian Osbaldstone

Heath Jones, a detective in Hawke’s Bay on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, has twice been honoured for his bravery in the line of duty: once for rescuing cyclone victims and once for tackling a gunman. Then, in 2018, the seasoned officer took a call which would put him at the heart of an international inquiry into one of the world’s worst paedophiles.
Rolls-Royce v BA: the debacle that grounded hundreds of flights

Nov 9, 2024 | thetimes.com | Oliver Gill |Julian Osbaldstone

When British Airways picked the American industrial conglomerate General Electric over the longstanding aircraft engine partner Rolls-Royce for the first time in 1991, there was uproar in the House of Lords. “We cannot allow great firms such as Rolls-Royce… to be disregarded by our own national airline,” Lord Williams of Elvel said. More than three decades later and BA executives are kicking themselves for not cutting ties with Rolls completely.
Found in a cave: proof the Neanderthals were far from thick

Nov 9, 2024 | thetimes.com | Matthew Campbell |Julian Osbaldstone

Our extinct cousins the Neanderthals were not the dim-witted brutes of public imagination. Scientists excavating a cave in Gibraltar have found evidence that the species mastered a complex industrial process to make tar as an adhesive for fastening stone points to spear shafts. These archaic humans pioneered a system of “anoxic heating” 60,000 years ago, designing a pit on the floor of a cave in which wood was buried and heated to hundreds of degrees to make it exude resin without catching fire.
Friedrich Merz: ‘next German leader’ leaves Merkel’s shadow at last

Nov 9, 2024 | thetimes.com | Peter Conradi |Julian Osbaldstone

Friedrich Merz, the multimillionaire former corporate lawyer set to become Germany’s next leader, looked like a man on a mission as he strode past photographers on his way to the chancellor’s office in Berlin last Thursday. His goal: to slay what the country’s media have dubbed the “zombie government”.
Water on Mars: how it will change the search for alien life

Aug 18, 2024 | thetimes.com | Ben Spencer |Julian Osbaldstone

Two hundred million kilometres across the solar system, in a crack in the rock 20,000 metres below the surface of a Martian desert, scientists may have found their holy grail. They claim to have discovered water — and no mere trickle. Evidence suggests there could be enough subterranean water within Mars to cover the entire planet with an ocean at least 1,000 metres deep. On the surface at least, Mars is extremely dry.
The salesmen making millions from asylum hotels

Jul 20, 2024 | thetimes.com | Hugo Daniel |Laith Al-Khalaf |Julian Osbaldstone

A network of middlemen are making millions from the migrant crisis by striking deals with run-down hotels and filling them with asylum seekers. Companies are taking fees and commission every time a migrant is given accommodation, a Sunday Times investigation has revealed. The cost to the taxpayer of housing a asylum seeker is between £127 and £148 a day — a total daily bill of £8 million.