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York is an exhilarating city. Its year-round attractions and festivals can be enjoyed from New Year through to the Christmas markets. York Naburn Lock Caravan Park is an adults-only site, a very short

A winter walk can offer up some truly beautiful and surprising wild spectacles – Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s reserves have plenty to offer

Susan Taylor celebrates New Year in Cornwall with bracing walks and fancy dress I could feel it in the air – almost reach out and touch it. Not the wind and rain; even that was strangely quiet, mirror

I’m sceptical about news stories you sometimes read of big black cats roaming the countryside. I was, however, tempted to don my boots for a hike I found on the internet titled In the Footsteps of the

York is a fine place to visit at this time of year, with medieval streets such as The Shambles and the towering York Minster lending it a romantic Christmassy atmosphere. Nearby adults-only York Carav

Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them