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Dream of summer escapes with this selection of delicious recipes inspired by popular dishes from Italy’s western Tyrrhenian coast, from cookery writer Amber Guinness

Not only the longest pier in Britain, Southend is the longest in the whole wide world. So long indeed that it has its own railway to take visitors from one end to the other, a distance of 1.34 miles i

SU CARROLL rounds up the very best activities to do and things to see close to the coastline this month

‘The English style is fairly daring and we aren’t afraid of colour or pattern. However, it needs to be blended well. I was always taught to use different scales to make the pattern mix comfortably. En

September’s a good month to think about food so join us on a gallop through some gourmet getaways across Yorkshire with timely things to do on your trip

Choosing paint should be fun, if all the dreamy room reveals on Instagram are to be believed, but the reality is often very different. For most of us, there is a big gap between the desire for a bold