It wasn’t all bad

At their wedding this weekend, Harold Holland, 83, and Lillian Barnes, 78, may experience a sense of déjà vu: they first tied the knot on Christmas Eve 1955. The Kentucky couple divorced 50 years ago after 12 years of marriage, and have five children together. They met again at a family reunion last year, and as Holland puts it, “one thing led to another”. Joshua Holland, the couple’s grandson and the minister who will perform the ceremony, says the pair are “like two teenagers in love”.

A Dorset adventure company is inviting thrill seekers to spend the night sleeping (or attempting to sleep) harnessed to a bed that hangs from a cliff over the English Channel. The “Portaledge”, a contraption that is “anchored” to a cliff top, first caught on in California’s Yosemite National Park with climbers who wanted to see sunsets and sunrises. Now, Young’s Adventure Solutions in Poole is offering the overnight experience at the price of £500 for two – including an evening meal and champagne lowered down in a hamper. “You don’t really need to be a climber, but you definitely need a head for heights,” said the company’s owner, Eddy Young.

A British-led expedition will travel to Antarctica in search of the explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, which sank in 1915. The story of Shackleton and his crew’s survival, after five months of isolation and a 720-nautical-mile dash to the island of South Georgia, has become the stuff of legend. The wreck has lain at the bottom of the Weddell Sea ever since. While other search attempts have failed, this expedition, whose primary aim is to study the Larsen C ice shelf, will be the first to scour the seabed using unmanned submarines.