The BBC's Paul Henley looks at why Andorrans on average live longer than anyone else.

Frank Schleck keeps the yellow jersey after tackling the Col de la Bonnette in the highest stage of this year's Tour de France.

Herefordshire athletes take the honours in the annual Three Peaks Challenge.

England and New Zealand lose almost the whole of day three of the first Test to rain.

The body of a missing walker is recovered from the Lake District fells near Ambleside.

A walker is named by police after he was killed in a 30ft fall close to England's highest mountain in the Lake District.

Boulders weighing tons block the path - that's assuming that it hasn't already been blocked by a landslide.

Incidents of a seabird on St Kilda preying on another in darkness are intriguing researchers.

The increasing popularity of winter sports is placing an ever increasing strain on fragile mountain ecosystems.

A woman says "yes" to a mountain top marriage proposal then ends up in hospital after a fall.

Work to protect and preserve an Ice Age cave art site in Derbyshire is completed.

Two 19-year-old injured college students are airlifted to hospital after falls while walking on Snowdon

Several people are taken to hospital following a series of rescue operations in the Lake District.

The poets and verse associated with Queen's University in Belfast is celebrated in a new anthology, edited by Franks Ormsby. Among the writers featured are Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin and John Hewitt. Below are a selection of the poems included in the book, The Blackbird's Nest.

Cash is stolen during burglaries at three pubs in the Lake District on the same night.

An Army officer paralysed in a climbing accident that killed his friend climbs Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro unaided.

The BBC's new Planet Earth series features remarkable footage of grizzly bears clambering up the scree slopes in the Rockies to find moths.

A helicopter will carry 250 tonnes of stones to repair erosion-hit paths in the Lake District.

A man dies after falling more than 300ft while walking in the lake District.

Sheep farmer Stan Bargh, 66, takes first and second place in the biennial Yorkshire dry stone walling contest.