Phil Hopkins

Christmas in Sweden is a celebration steeped in tradition, warmth, and togetherness.

Special Interest bookings at Saga Holidays, where travellers choose to combine their vacation with some ‘later life learning’, by trying something new or indulging an existing hobby or pastime, have seen a two-thirds year-on-year increase in bookings.

Just when you think summer is over, easyJet has brought a touch of Spain to Yorkshire by announcing new routes to Malaga and Palma from Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA) starting late March next year.

He was probably one of the great thinkers of the 20th century but, when he died in 2021 at the age of 88, Edward de Bono’s 19-year-old-son commented: “I haven’t met anyone my age who’s heard of him….” And yet this Maltese born writer, described as a ‘prodigy’ when he was barely out of shorts, was courted, and read, by kings, celebrities and leaders across the world for decades, from Russia’s perestroika president Mikhail Gorbachev, Robert Maxwell and even the Philippines’, Imelda Marcos, through to American President George H.W.

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Hopetown Darlington has won the Visitor Economy Award at the County Durham Together Awards 2024.

If you know what Peppa Pig, The Rocky Horror Show and an ‘obscene’ novel penned by James Joyce have in common, then you are already half way to sampling one of London’s quirkier weekend stays.

Crewe is perhaps best known as a large railway junction but, on the outskirts of this once mighty 19th century town famed for its engineering innovation and design, sits a rather splendid hall that on first viewing leaves you breathless.

“If that’s glamping,” said my pal John, “then I’m leaving our house, down-sizing and moving in with you!” It was not difficult to understand his point considering that I was, at that moment, simmering in an outside jacuzzi at the Longnor Wood Holiday Hideaway near Buxton in Derbyshire.