12 h. ago Best waterside pubs along Britain’s rivers perfect for sunny weekends

Ahead of the sizzling weather, boat hire firm Drifters - which offers over 500 boats for hire from 40 locations across England, Scotland and Wales - has put together its list of the best river and canalside pubs in the country

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6 d. ago Amanda Holden welcomes the heatwave with ‘super gorgeous summery dress’ that’s still in stock

Amanda Holden gets ready for the summer heatwave that's taking over the UK this week in a perfect midi for sunny weather occasions that Amanda describes as 'super gorgeous' and 'summery'

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8 d. ago The stunning waterside pub near popular Greater Manchester trail that's perfect for the sunny weather

It just recently had an upgrade too

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1 week ago Is this Britain's unluckiest village? Durham town was left stinking of rotten eggs from landfill site...now local authorities are introducing an INCINERATOR which residents fear will be just as bad

A 10,000-tonne incinerator, which lies within a mile of a nursery, a primary school and a sixth form college, is being built and will be up and running next year. But locals are making a last ditch attempt to stop it.

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1 week ago The ‘beautiful’ Greater Manchester country park with ‘lovely gardens’ perfect for a sunny day

Take a stroll through ancient woodland, flower meadows and walled gardens

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3 w. ago Next shoppers snap up 'many' colours of £28 dress 'perfect for a sunny day'

Multiple colourways of this popular midi dress are already selling out online.

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4 w. ago Pesticides, antibiotics, animal medicines: the chemical cocktail seeping into our rivers

A study of Yorkshire’s rivers is helping scientists understand the impact everyday pollutants are having on waterways – and the results are soberingRivers carry more than just water through Britain’s landscapes. A hidden cocktail of chemicals seeps out of farmland, passes undetected through sewage treatment works, and drains off the roads into the country’s rivers. Normally these chemicals flow through unreported, silently restructuring ecosystems as they go, but now, UK scientists are building a map of what lies within – and the damage it may be causing.Trailing down the centre of Britain is one river whose chemical makeup scientists know better than any other. The Foss threads its way through North Yorkshire’s forestry plantations, patchworked arable land and small hamlets, before descending into the city of York, passing roads and car parks, gardens replacing farmland. Along the course of its 20-mile (32km) length, the chemical fingerprints of modern life accumulate. Continue rea...

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last month Next's 'gorgeous' £25 summer dress is 'perfect for sunny days'

Next shoppers are loving the "gorgeous" dress they're keen to take on their summer holidays

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last month Bogancloch review – the further adventures of a Scottish hermit in Ben River’s beguiling essay

Rivers returns to document a past subject, Jake Williams, whose reclusive Scottish forest existence is fascinating but defies explanationFilm-maker Ben Rivers, one of the doyens of Britain’s small but stubborn-as-bindweed experimental film scene, catches up with Scottish recluse Jake Williams, the subject of his 2011 film Two Years at Sea and, before that, his 2006 short This Is My Land. All three films never deign to tell viewers much at all about Williams, who spends great chunks of the film doing almost nothing, like sleeping by a tree, taking a bath, or just pottering about at his home, Bogancloch in Aberdeenshire.However, there are oblique hints in plain sight if you look closely. In the bric-a-brac of Williams’ digs and the closeup shots Rivers inserts of some of Williams’ scratched and smudged photographs of places around the world he’s once visited, one of which shows the subject as a young man with a resplendent head of red hair. These days, his scalpline has much receded a...

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