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Another school holiday is upon us, but where can we take the children when it feels like everything is sold out? We have some ideas for you

Massive rewilding experiment in Scotland may help find way to slow alarming rate of species extinction – Scotsman comment The 18th century landscape gardener Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown “almost damned himself to historical obscurity through creating a product so good, subsequent generations of visitors have given nature herself the credit”, according to the National Trust. Saturday, 22nd May 2021, 4:55 am Beavers have already been returned to parts of Scotland and other species may f...

Here is a list of some of the free things you can do in CORK !

Finally some good news: Relief of court of Appeal judges widow Lady Lavinia Nourse, 77, as she is found NOT GUILTY of sexually abusing a boy in the 1980s after denying claims as completely repulsive and saying her accuser was obviously after money Lady Lavinia Nourse was married to Sir Martin Nourse, who died in 2017 aged 85  The 77-year-old was this afternoon cleared of abusing a young boy in the 1980s  Series of high profile figures appeared as character witnesses in her defence  

Lady Nourse was today cleared at Peterboroughs Nightingale court of 17 historical sex abuse charges She said: This has been hanging over me for nearly four years. It is a happy result, finally some good news  The jury was told of Lady Nourses enviable married life, including wining and dining high society friends  MailOnline can reveal that a marriage breakdown and monetary problems led to the false allegations 

The magnificent country houses you can visit from Monday May 17 Stately homes in and around the region that have flipped their signs to open Updated Ready to welcome visitors (clockwise, from top) Wassand Hall Gardens; Brodsworth Hall; Lotherton Hall (Image: Wassand Hall/Ian Cleland/Lotherton Hall) Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you prov...

Blenheim Palace will call their Indian Room the Summer Terrace Room during a new exhibition on Sir Winston Churchill to avoid colonial connotations. Bosses at the country house in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, will use the alternative name for the show on the UKs greatest prime minister. They said they didnt want to provoke controversy and wanted to make it more accessible following calls to reassess Britains past. But the palace later issued a statement saying it was due to the Indian Room being in ...

euronews_icons_loading By    •  Updated: 12/05/2021 - 16:12 Dressed in clothing made to measure by Winston Churchill’s original tailors, this is the closest you’ll ever get to meeting Winston Churchill. A brand new, life-size sculpture of Winston Churchill has been unveiled as part of a new exhibition at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire dedicated to Churchills lifelong association with his birthplace and ancestral home. How was the sculpture made? Created by inter...

Submitting... Bernie, 85, said: “How fortunate we are to be in this part of the country – Derbyshire is a beautiful county.” His favourite view is Curbar Edge. Bernie said: “It’s great to be living in north Derbyshire and have that on your doorstep. You can see quite a lot of Chatsworth estate from there. You’re looking at the work of centuries ago – Capability Brown must have done a bit of viewing from up there to lay out the estate the way it is.” Not surprisingly, Chesterfiel...

In total there are nine castles in Dorset, heres a look at some of them: Lulworth Castle Lulworth Castle is open for all to visit (Echo). Built between 1606 and 1610 Lulworth Castle was primarily as a hunting lodge, but has subsequently played host to five reigning monarchs.  The castle was even seized by the Roundheads during the English Civil War, who used it as a garrison.  The castle has been owned by the Weld family since Humphrey Weld returned after the Civil War in 1651. It st...