The 32 best high streets in Britain: Independent stores, a sense of community and markets make these town centres among the best in the UK

by David Hibbins | Aug 29, 2024 | Latest Travel News

Despite the rise of online shopping and the trend for working from home, many of Britain’s high streets remain the beating heart of their communities, as well as being a magnet for visitors bored by the chain store experience.Buzzing with activity thanks to quirky...

Italy – look away now! In Sweden they love putting BANANAS on pizzas… and the internet doesn’t know what to make of it. Would YOU try it?

by David Hibbins | Aug 29, 2024 | Latest Travel News

Italians, you may not be able to look at the photography in this story.Because we’ve pictured a pizza that’s hugely popular in Sweden – one that’s topped with bananas.Swedes’ love of banana pizzas has been around for a while, but the...

I turned my garden into an 1850s Wild West town: Care home worker transforms his house by building two jails, a sheriff’s office, a blacksmith’s and a cannon

by David Hibbins | Aug 29, 2024 | Latest Travel News

A man lives in a ‘time-warp’ house – with the inside set in the 1950s and the outside an 1850s Wild West Town.Billy Gibbons, 68, transformed his home in Audlem, Cheshire into a 1950s haven after his parents died in the mid-90s.But – not feeling...

Britain at its best: Inside the royal town of Caernarfon – home to a medieval masterpiece of a castle where a teenage Charles was invested as the Prince of Wales

by David Hibbins | Aug 29, 2024 | Latest Travel News

As we make our way round Caernarfon Castle, perhaps Wales’ most famous royal des res, we’re reminded of the long journey that King Charles has made to become our reigning monarch.For it was in this medieval masterpiece that our then 17-year-old monarch was invested as...

Popular US park as radioactive as Chernobyl, says expert: ‘I’ve never seen anything quite like it’

by David Hibbins | Aug 29, 2024 | Latest Travel News

A scenic hiking trail has been discovered to be dangerously contaminated with radiation.New tests have discovered that Acid Canyon — a popular hiking and biking trail near the birthplace of the atomic bomb, Los Alamos, New Mexico — is still radioactive today...