By Mark Duell[1] and Elena Salvoni[2] Published: 22:01, 28 March 2024 | Updated: 02:03, 29 March 2024
Two million British holidaymakers are set to jet off over the Easter weekend, with their getaways being threatened by …
By Mark Duell[1] Published: 15:59, 28 March 2024 | Updated: 16:35, 28 March 2024
Britain’s getaway was hit by Storm Nelson today as busy roads were deluged by torrential rain, trains were delayed by high winds and planes…
Matt Tebbutt, 50, is the presenter of the BBC1 series Saturday Kitchen. He trained at Leiths School of Food and Wine in London and has worked for Marco Pierre White and Alastair Little. He lives with his wife, Lisa, in Monmouthshire, where they owned t…
Here are the details of all road closures affecting the M4, A470 and other main in the coming week (beginning Saturday, February 10), with motorists being warned to avoid the area during closures. Several sections of the road are either fully or partia…
LNER trains between York and Edinburgh are delayed ‘due to severe weather’Christmas lights switch-on in Portsmouth cancelled amid ‘low temperatures’ By Mark Duell[1] Published: 14:38, 1 December 2023 | Updated: 14:44, 1 December 2023
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When it comes to finding the UK’s perfect driving route, some say that Scotland offers the only answer. Others say the hills of the Brecon Beacons or the mountain roads of Snowdonia in Wales. But everyone forgets the Penni…
20mph speed limits are now in place in Wales. Mayor Sadiq Khan wants them in London too (PA Wire)
Wales[1] has taken a step towards Sadiq Khan[2]’s London[3] this week as the long-waited and highly controversial 20mph zones finally came into force …
Thousands of runners are set to hit the streets of the capital this weekend as the Cardiff[1] 10K returns once again. The popular race, which has been going for 38 years, will take place on Sunday, September 3.
The flat and fast route takes participant…
Although Lock Cottage, on the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal at Bettws in Newport, needs plenty of TLC it could be made into a haven of peace with some sympathetic renovation inside and out.
The two-bedroom property, with rambling gardens, was sold at …
Transport for Wales (TfW) has announced that the entire Heart of Wales Line rail service will be replaced by road transport on Saturday and Sunday, July 22 and 23.
Rail users will still be able to travel the Heart of Wales Line route – which operates b…
The Blaenavon Heritage Railway has announced that London and North Western Railway ‘Coal Tank’ No.1054 will be visiting the line for its Annual Steam Gala from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th September.
The locomotive previously visited the line for its stea…
A man who was told as a teenager that he should never run again is now planning to go 100 miles without stopping to raise money for his cousin who can’t crawl, walk or talk. Alex Mackay is raising money for his seven-year-old cousin Albert Said, from B…
The Essex family of one of the heroes of Rorke’s Drift that inspired the film Zulu is trying to buy back his lost medals after they saw them put up for auction. Alfred Saxty was just 20-years-old at the time of the famous battle in January 1879.
He was…
Dolgarrog station in north Wales is a windswept, unstaffed halt. It gets just five trains a day, and sometimes no one gets on or off.
But it deserves a place in railway history as the first station to reopen after being closed under the infamous Beechi…