Donald Campbell's Bluebird K7 has returned and run on Coniston Water for the first time since it crashed there in 1967. The iconic craft made its comeback as part of a week-long festival, marking the ...

Thousands of people are expected to visit Coniston in the Lake District over the next week as Donald Campbell's restored Bluebird makes a return to the water there for the first t ...

Nearly 60 years after Donald Campbell died trying to set water-speed record, restored hydroplane only allowed to reach 150mph ...

The restored hydroplane returns to the lake where its record-breaking pilot was killed in 1967.

Campbell, who had set a total of eight world speed records on land and water in the 1950s and 60s, was trying to break 300mph (480 km/h) on 4 January 1967 when the craft somersaulted and sank.

The Bluebird K7, the world's first successful jet-engined hydroplane and a multiple-record holder for speed on water, is back at home in Coniston, Cumbria, in the UK. Its road back home was long, ...