WASHINGTON (AP) -- At one end of the 20-foot rope is Tessa Lightfoot, a 13-year-old American teenager topping the scales at 90 pounds. At the other, directly above her head, is a British-made bronze ...

Bell ringer Trevor Arnold (left) has perfected the art of rope making, which he initially took up as a hobby A man from Kent who learnt a new hobby in lockdown has been asked to make ropes for the ...

This Bell Rope was made by William Houghton in 1974, he was my Boson in the R.N.X.S. He started as an appentice sailmaker on ...

Christmas is one of the busiest times of year for those who ring the bells before church services. Roger Ratcliffe talks to some ringers about the appeal of the bells. There's a TV commercial in which ...

Gwen Kinghorn, 53, a regular bell ringer at the 13th Century church told the BBC she was completely baffled and said she had no idea of who could have done it. "I was pulling the rope and it just fell ...

Wheeze up the last of the 53 steep spiral stairs of the bell tower of Melbourne's St Paul's Cathedral on a Sunday evening and you'll encounter a a tight band of men and women in leisure wear. Their ...

A man from Kent who learnt a new hobby in lockdown has been asked to make ropes for the West End musical Sister Act. Bell-ringer Trevor Arnold, from Rodmersham, near Sittingbourne, took up rope making ...