Cold day in the sun

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

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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

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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

The venerable PENNINE WAY is the Daddy of Britain’s long-distance walks. Last year, we finally decided to tackle it – following in the footsteps of Ellie’s father, who had walked it half a century earlier. But is the trail as tough now as it was back then?