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From year-round affordable places, to hacks that will save you money on a special staycation, here are 20 of the best value places to stay

National Landscapes – previously AONBs – present the chance to explore spectacular scenery with a fraction of the crowds of National Parks

Geography undergraduate courses at Oxford Brookes University. Fieldwork trips, facilities and study abroad opportunities

“We’ve never had frost here,” says Adrian Pike, gesturing across rows of vines just starting to show signs of tiny buds in the weak Kent spring sunshine.…

Taxpayers have been left with a bill of more than £40,000 after Maidstone Council spent significant funds over almost a decade trying to pursue Langley Beck over his 14-hecte plot.

UK vineyards are thriving as far north as Yorkshire and Scotland as investors cash in on tax breaks and hotter summers

Langley Beck (pictured) has been locked in a decade-long dispute with a council over his dumping ground in an ancient woodland in a protected national beauty spot of the North Downs, Kent.

Drivers from Southwestern and Southern railways are taking part in strike action on Monday.

Efforts are now underway to conserve a rare bird that is slowly disappearing from Wiltshire. 

Efforts are now underway to conserve a rare bird that is slowly disappearing from Wiltshire.