Q What is the world’s tallest statue? A The tallest statue in the world is the Statue of Unity in India, which stands a massive 182 metres high. It was built in honour of independence leader Sardar Va

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Look further afield than Paris and NYC for a mini break next year

It’s no small thing to be the island that not only inspired one of the best-selling novels of all time, but to be the place where it was written, too. Agatha Christie loved staying at Burgh Island Hot

Guess where we went last summer? A two-week tour that took in the UK’s first Dark Sky Park, also its largest forest, the world’s smallest post office, the First World War’s largest munitions factory,