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Malton Food Tour in North Yorkshire

06/09/2016 by .
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Stuart Forster heads to Malton in North Yorkshire to participate in the inaugural Malton Food Tour. A gentleman wearing a cream coloured Malton Cookery School apron greets me with a cheery smile at the entrance to the Talbot Hotel. “I hope you’re hungry,” says Tom Naylor-Leyland, welcoming me onto the first Malton Food Tour.

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Drayton Manor Theme Park

26/08/2016 by .
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Would all the excitement of Drayton Manor Theme Park  and Thomas Land prove to be far too much fun for one family day out? TripReporter sends the Wallace family of two adults and two kids to give us a thorough and exhausting testing. Here is their verdict on Drayton Manor Theme Park

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Paultons Park Family Fun

06/07/2016 by .
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Would the lure of Peppa Pig World and the new Lost Kingdom Dinosaur theme park prove to be far too much fun for one family day out at Paultons Park? TripReporter sent the Wallace family of two adults and two kids to give us a thorough and exhausting testing. Here is their Paultons Park family fun diary

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Edinburgh Festivals anyone?

05/07/2016 by .
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Heading up to any Edinburgh festivals in 2016? Anna Smith shares fresh finds and hidden gems for this years’ Edinburgh festival season.

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Shetland. Islands with Latitude

02/06/2016 by .
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In 1999, when I first visited Shetland, I was presented with a certificate confirming that I had been farther north than 60°; it was a marketing ploy, but I was pleased to receive it – and still have it. Latitude, clearly, was anything but a geographical platitude to these people of the far north of Britain, closer, as they are, to the Arctic Circle than they are to London, and on a level with Hudson Bay in Canada, St Petersburg in Russia, Stockholm in Sweden and Helsinki in Finland.

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24 hours in Newcastle

01/05/2016 by .
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In 2014, The Guardian readers voted Newcastle best city-break destination. I had 24 hours in Newcastle to find out why, but with so much to explore, would 24 hours in Newcastle be enough?

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Standon Calling Festival. A Fantastic Family Favourite.

21/08/2015 by .

Brilliant Edinburgh festivals and other fancies

09/07/2015 by .
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When my friends say they’re going to the ‘Edinburgh Festival’ I’m tempted to ask – which one? These days there’s a whole host of them year round – 12, in fact, from the Jazz and Blues fest to the Storytelling to the famous Fringe.

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Caledonian Sleeper. Glasgow to London.

28/04/2015 by .
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It’s all change for the Caledonian Sleeper that connects London Euston overnight with five Scottish termini:  Edinburgh, Glasgow for the lowland sleeper and Fort William, Aberdeen, Inverness for the Highland sleeper.

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Scotland’s whisky festivals

22/04/2015 by .
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There’s no better time to head for the Scottish Highlands and Islands than May, especially for lovers of a wee dram.   This most picturesque region of the country  boats a pair of fine distillery trails where some of the world’s greatest malts emerge from the pot stills as liquid gold.

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