Bedfordshire’s only Michelin star restaurant is tucked away in a corner of England’s finest countryside, within beautiful piece of parkland on the Woburn Abbey estate. It’s barely sign-posted on the A4012 so I miss the entrance and end up a few miles down the road in quaint Woburn village. I… more
A team of Network Rail’s orange army have volunteered their time to help create a new habitat for one of the UK’s rarest butterfly at a new site next to a Buckinghamshire railway line to ensure their survival. This communication contains embedded YouTube video. View it on the website. On… more
The Five Alls Filkins It is not often that I get cross when I do these restaurant reviews, but after visiting the Five Alls at Filkins I was fuming, why have I not been here before , my sort of place, my sort of food. Filkins is about 30 minutes… more
The beautiful Chiltern Hills are home to picturesque villages, 324 square miles of open countryside, great transport links and schools – an nearer to London that the Cotswolds. so that means they are a better long-term investment, according to a recent article in the Evening Standard. Estate agent Lindsay Cuthill,… more
Every year in Britain over five million wild animals and birds are injured as a direct result of their encounters with man and man’s world. Tiggywinkles, The Wildlife Hospital Trust, is a specialist hospital dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating all species of British wildlife. At Tiggywinkles Visitor Centre you get… more
This year’s nostalgic Heritage Rally, which will take place on Sunday 7 June, is all about Classic Cars and Steam Trains. The Rally, which is now sponsored by Wroxall Abbey Hotel & Estate, is now in its third year and is organised by the Heritage Motor Centre for vehicles aged 20… more
The Chilterns have been named as one of the best places for country living in the UK. Residents have the highest gross weekly earnings of anywhere in the UK at £941, according to an annual survey by the Halifax Building Society. Rutland has moved up 11 places to the top… more
Dark Age Warwick & the Warrior Queen Leamington Spa Pump Rooms – until 11 January 2015 www.warwickdc.gov.uk/royalpumprooms Dark Age Warwick & the Warrior Queen, the popular exhibition on show this summer in St Mary’s Church, Warwick, has now moved to Leamington Spa. It is on show in Leamington Spa Art… more
A new painting, of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, is now on display at the Warwick Visitor Centre. The work was originally commissioned by Warwick Town Council for an exhibition. more
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