The M4 in South Wales was almost empty, the weather good, no road works, three lanes, yet the speed limit was only 50mph for quite a long section. Puzzled, I soon came upon a notic ...

THE CLOCKS on board are all frozen at one minute past three in the afternoon. That was the time, on December 11 1997, when The Queen was piped ashore for the very last time. Forty- ...

THE REPAIR Shop’s famous logo in lights wasn’t really needed. The Court Barn was instantly recognisable as the home of TV’s friendliest and most heartwarming reality show. Bu ...

FOR NEARLY half a century Delia Smith was the nation’s cookery teacher. From a TV studio, or her own kitchen deep in the Suffolk countryside, she taught us the best way to boil a ...

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FOR THE last 10,000 years the ancient Phoenician city of Baalbek has been continuously inhabited. Much more recently, just two thousand years ago, the Romans built a vast and fabul ...

LOOK ACROSS the low dunes, with their clumps of wind-ruffled beach grass, and there are miles of sands washed by the grey Atlantic waves with, every so often, a weather-worn home o ...

OUT ON a Sunday morning bike ride through the local country lanes. The villages roll by: Brandon, Stubton, Claypole, Hough on the Hill, Caythorpe. It’s a bit breezy but the going ...

I REMEMBER the first time time I was introduced to electric bikes more than a decade ago. After years of expensively trying to save fractions of an ounce off the weight of a bike, ...