It's news that will have Gromit barking in excitement. Children inspired by the Wallace & Gromit films are leading a revival of Plasticine. It had been enjoyed by generations of youngsters but nearly ...

The world's biggest and most complex Plasticine garden designed by Top Gear presenter James May is one of the few entrants at the Royal Horticultural Society show not to win an official award. However ...

Plasticine, the modelling clay that has been manufactured for over 100 years, is enjoying a major revival, according to industry figures, as parents indulge in nostalgia. James May's gaden at the ...

WE were keeping some snails (Helix pomatia} without food, under a bell-jar with a wide tubulure at the top ; in the tubulure was a cork bearing a thermometer. We found that the snails ate the cork, so ...