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Turreted castle entrance surrounded by trees and shrubs

Castle trust 'to pay staff when fortunes improve'

New investors are sought by Whittington Castle as it struggles to pay staff

One of the walls of Wallingford Castle. It's a ruin, covered in vegetation and vines along the top and side. A castle tower remains above the wall.

Castle walls 'unstable' after bad weather

Wallingford Town Council advises visitors to "exercise caution when near the site".

Lincoln Castle's east gate entrance.

Scaffolding removed at castle entrance

The walls have been surveyed and loose stones removed.

The Ripley Castle estate close up, the open grass area with stone statue is visible in front of the property.

Price tag for 700-year-old castle revealed

Ripley Castle, in North Yorkshire, is for sale either whole or as nine separate lots.

North Yorkshire

An aerial view of Norwich Castle. It's a sunny day and the building is well lit in daylight on one side.

Documentary to showcase castle's eight-year revamp

The painstaking restoration of one of the country's landmark castles will be shown on national TV.

A view of the land on Coolgardie Farm. The site is currently an empty field, with housing in the distance.

Castle could have stood on land set for new homes

Bradford Council wants to see if land earmarked for housing might have previously housed a castle.

An aerial view of Norwich Castle. It's a sunny day and the building is well lit in daylight on one side.

Revamp of city's castle enters 'home straight'

Experts working on the "once in a lifetime" revamp use techniques that are hundreds of years old.

People in archaeological trenches, digging on their hands and knees to uncover a medieval village. Mounds of soil surround them as they use trowels to scoop it out into flexible buckets. The dig is taking place on the grounds of a castle, which can be seen lurking behind trees with browning leaves in the background.

Lost medieval village potentially discovered

Archaeologists have uncovered a stone structure and fragments of pottery during a dig.

Gloucestershire

A photo of a Lorraine Curry who is the executive head of Kenton Primary School. She is standing in the middle of the photo wearing a blue quarter-length sleeved dress with stripes of black. She also has a lanyard round her neck which says staff on it. She has blonde hair past her shoulders. She is stood next to four desks made of wood. In the corner of a room there is a United Kingdom flag.

Primary school moves to castle after flooding

Kenton Primary School was one of many properties hit by flood water after heavy rain in September.