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This private hideaway in the Scottish Highlands costs the same as a London garage. House prices are booming right now with lockdown and remote working making some reassess whether it’s worth swapping a small rente...
A century of window shopping delicious treats and beautiful chocolate gifts is coming to an end: after 110 proud years, Thorntons is closing all of its stores permanently. It’s another sad announcement brought on by th...
Fingers crossed this comes to Birmingham. Five days. 40 hours. Sometimes (well, often actually) it can get on top of the best of us. We tend to find ourselves feeling that if the working week was reduced just that tiny...
The organisers want to make the streets “safe for all women”. A vigil in the wake of the #ReclaimTheseStreets movement is set to take place in Birmingham this weekend. The movement comes just days after the tragic disap...
Takeaway pints are here to save our spring. Takeaway pints were one of the few saviours of last summer, with London pubs doing a roaring trade in fresh pints of beer straight from the tap. It was a novel thing after thr...
Captain Sir Tom loved the natural world. We all know his name – Captain Sir Tom Moore raised over £38 million to help the NHS, during a pandemic. He was an inspiration and a comfort to those struggling under the circums...
Organisers have confirmed that Reading and Leeds Festival is back. The roadmap out of lockdown has got people finally hyped for a summer that looks a lot better than the last. With nearly 18 million people vaccinated ag...
Don’t pretend you wouldn’t love an extra day off this year… Proving once again that we should never doubt the swift and whimsical opportunism of the nation who once produced “Boaty McBoatface”, there’s already a petitio...
Key dates in England’s exit from lockdown have been revealed under the PM’s roadmap. With the number of vaccinated people in the UK nudging 18 million, the R rate falling nationwide, today is finally the day we learned...
By August, the whole adult population of the UK might have the Covid jab. Though government ministers have raised the possibility of ever over-18 being offered the jab by September, there’s tentative evidence to suggest...
