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This year's Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts drew 177,000 party people to deepest Somerset, reaffirming Glastonbury's position as the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. Some went for the music. Some went for the mud.…

"Best" is a subjective word at, err... best. What one person or group values as the "top" will never be the same for everyone – still, when you're looking for something and you want the "best", it's always nice when…

One of the most picturesque villages found in the Peak District National Park, Eyam is historically significant for the actions the villagers took to isolate themselves in the mid 1600s to prevent the spread of the plague despite the toll…

Ah, the English summer: Pimm's on the lawn, sandcastles on the beach, socks inside sandals, and the gentle sound of leather on willow. Yes, along with tennis, the nation's sporting thoughts at this time of year turn to cricket -…

Obscure geography trivia time: where would you find the steepest street in the world? You might guess San Francisco. If you're a Guinness Book of Records-reading smart alec, you might say New Zealand. As it turns out, you'd be wrong…

When the Romans invaded Britain in the 1st century AD, they never quite managed to conquer Caledonia - the area now known as Scotland. We'll never know whether the Roman army felt it was too much like hard work to…