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“ I met Charles Dickens today, except he had clearly been so busy working on The Mystery of Edwin Drood that he had fallen asleep, so I didn’t get to speak to him!” I laughingly proclaimed to Ro when

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This traditional pub in the bucolic village of Chelsworth is drawing rave reviews. Helena Lang checks in to find out more

From pastries to perry, a charming cottage break in the West Midlands is filled with foodie discoveries for Neil Cook and his family

In the gentle hills of the West Country there’s a history of people coming to worship and witness, from the spiritual home of neo-druids and pagans in Stonehenge to the church of hedonism that is the