It wasn’t all bad

Tesco is to stop selling plasticwrapped multipacks of tins, to cut its use of single-use plastic. Instead of using plastic to bind store-cupboard staples such as baked beans together, the supermarket will offer permanent multi-buy deals on individual tins. Packaging is being removed from Tesco’s own-brand products, as well as those made by major brands such as Heinz, Green Giant, John West and Princes. It says the change will save 350 tonnes of plastic a year.

A British adventurer has become the first Briton to scale the world’s most remote peak unaided. At 2,020 metres, Spectre is not especially high, but the mountain is so isolated, 450km south of the South Pole on Antarctica, that only ten people have seen it, and only one other team has climbed it. Those climbers used a vehicle to get part of the way, but Leo Houlding (above), along with Jean Burgun and Mark Sedon, kite-skied the 2000km to and from the mountain, pulling 2,00kg of kit on sledges behind them. A film of their adventure will be shown at the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Archaeologists have retrieved around 100 objects dating from the 14th and 15th centuries from a four-metre medieval cesspit discovered beneath Somerset House in central London. The haul, which includes drinking vessels, tablewear, a rare Penn floor tile and a ring, are believed to be the only surviving artefacts from the opulent medieval mansions that once stood on the Strand. The cesspit was found when archaeologists were given access to Somerset House during the refurbishment of the Courtauld Gallery.