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The Welsh travel ban begins tonight. Bad news if you were planning a Welsh getaway anytime soon: as of 6pm tonight (Friday, October 16), anyone travelling from parts of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland with high...
Art finds a way. “Living in a bubble” used to be an expression that described a person’s tendency to shut themselves out from the greater world. Last Monday, psych-rock band, The Flaming Lips, gave a whole new meaning t...
A new tiered lockdown system is set to be announced today. Birmingham has successfully dodged a ‘Tier 3’ lockdown, it has officially been confirmed – with residents of Birmingham set to be placed on Ti...
Avanti West Coast has launched the UK’s first fully wrapped Pride train. Back in August, the UK’s very first, rainbow-covered Pride train set off from London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly on its first official service...
Discussions about a reduced travel quarantine are well under way, and we are beyond thrilled. There’s nothing quite like a two-week quarantine to ruin your post-holiday zen, no wander so many Brits are avoiding travel a...
So long, Coconut Eclair! Gone are the days that the scraps nobody likes sit unwanted ’til inevitably being chucked in the bin at Easter, because Quality Street has come up with a genius, fully personalisable tin o...
Who knew Halloween could possibly get anymore frightful? Following the cancellation of a number of Christmas events here in Birmingham, it turns out nothing is safe – with No. 10 confirming just today that Trick O...
Be sure to look up this month. If 2020’s been anything positive, it’s been an astrological spectacle – with a number of space-bound delights lighting up our skies, from blue, pink and bright-glowing mo...
A positive win on the fight against plastic! It’s official. From today you won’t be finding a plastic straw in your Starbucks Frappuccino in England. In order to combat climate change, a law banning the dist...
Sir David Attenborough is Instagram’s newest star and he has something important to say. Less than a year after Jennifer Aniston broke the record for the fastest Instagram user to reach one million followers, Sir David...