A BUS driver is in for a bumper pay day after unearthing one of the largest ever hoards of Bronze Age axe heads with his metal detector.

The axe head, heated by the flames of Mathieu Collette's forge, ... France, and her team analyzed the markings that remained on wood oak beams salvaged from Notre-Dame.

A retired Hartlepool nurse found an axe head dating back 3,500 years to the Bronze Age while out in Northumberland earlier this month. Philip Pugh, 60, made the discovery using a metal detector in ...