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The 50 best baby buys

A round-up of some of the most useful things you can buy for a new baby this winter, from pushchairs that you can collapse with one hand to cots you can fit in a backpack and baby first aid courses.

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The 50 best baby buys

A round-up of some of the most useful things you can buy for a new baby this winter, from pushchairs that you can collapse with one hand to cots you can fit in a backpack and baby first aid courses.

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Searching for solitude in West Sweden

“The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on Earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we’re just passing through.” It’s pretty safe to assume that when author Roger Deakin

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Searching for solitude in West Sweden

“The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on Earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we’re just passing through.” It’s pretty safe to assume that when author Roger Deakin

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B&B and Beyond: Gallon House

The Yorkshire market town of Knaresborough is often neglected by tourists, but not by those who know about its foodie-friendly B&B, Gallon House. A minute’s walk from the town’s railway station, its 19th-century exterior, painted a sludgy stone, looms grandly

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B&B and Beyond: Gallon House

The Yorkshire market town of Knaresborough is often neglected by tourists, but not by those who know about its foodie-friendly B&B, Gallon House. A minute’s walk from the town’s railway station, its 19th-century exterior, painted a sludgy stone, looms grandly

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B&B and Beyond: Oriel Milgi

Opened last November in pretty St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, this three-room B&B looks like any other village house from the outside. Step over the threshold, however, and you find yourself inside a cosseting seaside retreat. Once a sea-captain’s house, Oriel Milgi

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B&B and Beyond: Oriel Milgi

Opened last November in pretty St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, this three-room B&B looks like any other village house from the outside. Step over the threshold, however, and you find yourself inside a cosseting seaside retreat. Once a sea-captain’s house, Oriel Milgi

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50 great places to make a splash

A round-up of some of the best places around the UK to swim in this summer, from stylish hotel puddles and Olympic lanes to secluded natural pools. For the full article see The Independent.

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50 great places to make a splash

A round-up of some of the best places around the UK to swim in this summer, from stylish hotel puddles and Olympic lanes to secluded natural pools. For the full article see The Independent.

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Scarborough’s chicest seaside B&B

Scarborough might not have a Turner Contemporary or a Jerwood Gallery, as Margate and Hastings respectively can boast, but it does have one weapon on its side when it comes to attrcating visitors: Barbara Firth, the owner of its most

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Scarborough’s chicest seaside B&B

Scarborough might not have a Turner Contemporary or a Jerwood Gallery, as Margate and Hastings respectively can boast, but it does have one weapon on its side when it comes to attrcating visitors: Barbara Firth, the owner of its most

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The B&B that’s reinventing a corner of England’s south coast

When this boutique B&B opened in 2009, it was still an anomaly in a seaside town more associated with the bucket-and-spade trippers in the Chas & Dave song, “Margate”. But regeneration of the town, driven by the opening of the

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The B&B that’s reinventing a corner of England’s south coast

When this boutique B&B opened in 2009, it was still an anomaly in a seaside town more associated with the bucket-and-spade trippers in the Chas & Dave song, “Margate”. But regeneration of the town, driven by the opening of the

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The 50 best nights under canvas

A round-up of some of the best places to sleep under the stars in the UK, from back-to-basics campsites to tucked-away luxury retreats, shabby chic yurt camps, canvas-covered adventures and pitches in wild places. For the full article see The

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The 50 best nights under canvas

A round-up of some of the best places to sleep under the stars in the UK, from back-to-basics campsites to tucked-away luxury retreats, shabby chic yurt camps, canvas-covered adventures and pitches in wild places. For the full article see The

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Veggie breaks

A round-up of holidays for non meat-eaters that go against the traditional grain, from a country house hotel in the Lake District to an organic agriturismo in Italy, a vegetarian cycling trip through North Wales and a gourmet veggie break

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Veggie breaks

A round-up of holidays for non meat-eaters that go against the traditional grain, from a country house hotel in the Lake District to an organic agriturismo in Italy, a vegetarian cycling trip through North Wales and a gourmet veggie break

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British treehouses

A round-up of the some of the most interesting places for would-be treehuggers to sleep across the UK, this ‘big six’ includes a pared-back, modern treehouse on the Isle of Wight, decadent new treehouse suites at Hampshire’s Chewton Glen Hotel

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British treehouses

A round-up of the some of the most interesting places for would-be treehuggers to sleep across the UK, this ‘big six’ includes a pared-back, modern treehouse on the Isle of Wight, decadent new treehouse suites at Hampshire’s Chewton Glen Hotel

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