Black magic

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

While the word dinosaur stems from the Greek for ‘terrible lizard’, dinosaurs aren’t lizards. This distinction is based on anatomical features, notably the legs. A lizard’s legs stick out at right ang

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

Our walks this month 1 Suilven Sutherland 6 ...

With a mixture of pootling and bumslides, fuelled by a good supply of Jelly Babies, hillwalker Mary-Ann Ochota becomes a mountain marathon completer, and reckons you could do it too.

The first leg of our year-long campervan road trip was always going to be a challenge. We were heading for Scandinavia; the part of northern Europe famed for its freshness, cleanliness, and being stun