It wasn’t all bad

One of the largest Roman villas ever discovered in Britain, with a footprint almost the size of Buckingham Palace’s, has been unearthed on the estate of Broughton Castle, Oxfordshire. Detectorist Keith Westcott first decided to visit the site in 2016 after a farmer told him that in 1963, he’d ploughed into what turned out to be a sarcophagus of a high-status Romano-british woman. Westcott’s team has since discovered 178 items of significance on the 1% of the site so far uncovered.

A former paratrooper who – facing homelessness – set off to walk around the coast of the UK a year ago, with only £10 in his pocket and the vague plan of keeping the sea on his left, reckons he is now a third of the way through his 11,023-mile journey. Since leaving the Gower Peninsula, Chris Lewis has battled storms and a heatwave, acquired a faithful canine companion and raised £17,000 for the Armed Forces charity SSAFA, which at one point helped him off the streets. The 38-year-old from Swansea – who was in the Hebrides last week – says that everywhere he goes, he is touched by people’s kind offers of shelter, meals and equipment.

The V&A’S first outpost outside London, and Scotland’s first design museum, is about to open in Dundee, in a striking new building designed by Kengo Kuma, the Japanese architect, and inspired by the cliffs of Scotland’s east coast. V&A Dundee, on the banks of the Tay, houses a world-class collection of arts and artefacts – from a Jacobite garter to original artwork from the Dundee-based Beano – as well as Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s “lost” tea room, which had been in storage since its original building was destroyed in 1971.