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Last modified on Thu 4 Feb 2021 06.03 EST Winning tip: On the beach in London London is an amazing city, but loses some of its charm when you find yourself confined to your too-small flat. In the first lockdown I found myself strolling the streets of Wapping one morning in an attempt to stave off cabin fever. Near Shadwell Basin I dropped off the Thames path on to a tiny sandy patch of foreshore where I sat for a while listening to the river lap and break over the rocks and watching the water g...

Plans are in place to remove up to 12 pylons - and around 4.5km of overhead electricity line - from near Roundway Hill and the Millennium White…

Unusual converted properties for sale From a 1920s former water tower in a park on an archipelago with views across Stockholm, to a Grade II-listed converted windmill in Ashford, Kent, eight of the best unusual converted properties for sale now. 29 Jan 2021 Bowl Road, Charing, Ashford, Kent. A Grade II-listed converted windmill in an elevated position on the outskirts of a village with a roof terrace overlooking the North Downs. It retains its original mill wheel and has beamed ceilings. 4 beds...

Campaign aims to get young people to vote in May elections  |  The Government has confirmed that it is pushing ahead with the 2021 local elections. In Maidstone, electors will have a voting spree because in addition to the regular four-yearly Kent County Council elections, the elections for a third of the borough council seats, which were postponed last year because of Covid, will also be held. Few young people vote On top of that there will be the postponed election for the Police and Crime ...

Country Life Trending: The view from Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire, is Fridays Secret Britain selection. On a clear day, you can see to the Cotswolds and the North Wessex Downs, but we’ll settle for the beautiful Aylesbury Vale in summer, with rare chalk grassland humming with butterflies, wildflowers and grazing cattle. You also might spot Beacon Hill to the south, with its distinctive clump of trees. The highest point in the Chilterns, 852ft above sea level, Coombe Hill is crowned with ...

Controversial Sungrove Farm scheme in North Hampshire approved "I don’t think this will have the disturbing effect the local people are suggesting" Jonathan Ashby  ); SUNGROVE Farm in East End will undergo a transformation after plans to convert a farmhouse into a multi-purpose commercial development were given the green light. At a Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council planning meeting last Wednesday, councillors unanimously approved the scheme, dismissing concerns by a campaign group that ...

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The North has borne the brunt of heavy snowfall so far this week – but the wintry weather is set to hit the Home Counties today. The worst conditions are likely to be in Eastern England, where an amber weather warning has been issued between 5am and 2pm.  This covers Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk where up to four inches of snow could fall. Snow is also expected in London, Kent and Sussex, as well as further north across East Anglia and the East Midlands. The North...

26 celebrities who went to school in Surrey You may be surprised to see some of the faces below From left to right - Tom Hardy, Tom Felton and Bill Nighy all went to school in Surrey (Image: Getty Images) Get the latest email updates for Surrey with our FREE daily newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other rel...

Advertisement Looking out at a single-track country lane over unspoilt downland, Im struggling to see any signs of human habitation. And yet I am barely 20 miles south of Oxford, home to 150,000 people. In a memorable scene in Jude The Obscure, the title character of Thomas Hardys novel has his first sight of the dreaming spires of Christminster (Oxford) from a spot close to where I am parked. Hardys grandmother lived in the nearby village of Fawley, and the stonemason who dreams of being a sch...