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You’d think that a box office-breaking, award-winning animated movie - spawning sequels, prequels, remakes, TV shows, video games and a West End musical - like The Lion King would already have its very own attraction by...
If we could go anywhere (any place, any time), we’d choose to go to Woodstock. Held on a New York farm in 1969, it has since become a defining moment of the baby boomer generation and synonymous with the counterculture...
It's great living in Birmingham and all, but given a chance every summer, most of us are looking at flights to sit on the sand anywhere but the United Kingdom. Not that we don't have any love for the here (when the wea...
"Nature's most precious gifts to humanity" is the motto of the list, spanning across 250 sites around the world. The organisation has protected around 3.5 million square kilometres worldwide, with 24 new spots added to...
Why don’t they have TV screens in supermarkets? I wouldn’t be so bothered spending half an hour wandering down every aisle looking for “whole chestnuts” if there was a little entertainment. I’d at least be able to stay...
You're signing up for something special when you hire someone like to design your restaurant - the team behind Qavali, Indico and Karaage. Yet the gilded interiors of in the Mailbox have been on another level since it...
What would you do with a £1000? Personally, I’d spend it on getting some lessons in grace and decorum because I have all the “grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on.” Whether it’s Peter’s closing statement...
When Fierce Festival debuted back in 1998 (then called Queerfest), it put Birmingham on the map for unusual, edgy and spectacular theatre and performance. Its second edition came with the tagline, ‘the festival that bit...
Hold on to your hats folks, is this a sign that the UK may be getting a Universal Studios that would be just 40 minutes away from London? Exciting news indeed, if so. We first that Universal has bought 480 acres of la...
The Perseid meteor shower is currently taking over the skies of the Northern Hemisphere, and it just so happens to be one of the most dramatic displays of celestial magic that you may ever witness, annually taking over...