57 h. ago England's 'best beach' that is less than a two hour drive from Greater Manchester

It lands in the top ten list of Best UK Beaches on Tripadvisor

Politics

4 d. ago Scotland's most 'radioactive town' is just a half hour drive away from Edinburgh

The town has won several “Best Kept Small Town” awards over the years

Politics

5 d. ago UK seaside town with beautiful beach is home to best fish and chips and iconic landmark

The bustling seaside resort is less than half an hour's drive from the heart of the city and is home to a famous landmark, a luxury fish and chip restaurant and one of the best places to go for ice cream in the area

Society

6 d. ago ‘We feel like we’re back in Senegal’: the Sufis helping migrants in the Canaries

Part-school, part-social network, a Mouride circle on the Spanish island is helping teenage asylum seekers prepare for adulthood and navigate a challenging welfare system• Photographs by Diana TakacsovaIn a three-storey building in a residential neighbourhood in Gran Canaria, about an hour’s drive from the airport, more than a dozen teenage Senegalese boys in colourful, flowing robes sit in a circle, soulfully chanting supplications. Behind them, girls sit with their heads covered, praying. On the top-floor terrace a feast of steaming rice, meat and vegetable gravy is being prepared.It is a bright Sunday afternoon in February. The young people are mostly asylum seekers from Senegal, who live in detention centres where conditions can be brutal, according to Spanish human rights groups. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Rogue doctors stole one woman’s eggs to get another patient pregnant. What happened next is an unlikely tale of friendship against the odds

When it emerged that a fertility clinic had made one woman pregnant with another’s baby, Renée Ballou and Carole LieberWilkins were advised to ‘lawyer up’. Instead they did something extraordinary – even as one raised the other’s biological childRenée Ballou thought she was a lucky person. In the 1980s, she was living in a beautiful home an hour’s drive from Los Angeles, with a job she loved, a happy marriage and a young son. Everything had always felt so easy for Renée – until she began trying for a second child. Two years on, she still wasn’t pregnant. “I was pretty much used to getting what I wanted,” Renée, now 67, tells me with a sad smile. “It was very stressful.”Along with her husband, Wesley, Renée went through a battery of tests, followed by years of surgeries, supplements and hormones. Her gynaecologist referred them to Dr Sergio Stone, a fertility specialist at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in Orange County, for more treatment. They tried artificial inse...

Science

2 w. ago The ruined castle in the heart of the Peak District with incredible views

It overlooks one of the Peak Districts prettiest villages and is just an hour's drive from Greater Manchester

Politics

3 w. ago Town seeking doctor offers £330,000 salary and free rent – but there’s a catch

The town is a seven-hour drive from the nearest major city

Economics

3 w. ago Why Jennifer Lopez snapped up a $21M mansion that is an HOUR drive from ex Ben Affleck's cottage

Jennifer Lopez has snapped up a Hidden Hills house listed for $21 million. Now DailyMail.com has learned why the single mother to twins Max and Emme moved so far away from her former husband.

Politics

last month ‘I was sexualised, patronised and ridiculed’: how Charlotte Church survived the tabloids to become an earth mother

Charlotte Church has lived her life in the full glare of publicity, rising from child star to tabloid target. Now, happier and more free than ever, she’s found her feet – and her voice – at her healing retreat in the Welsh valleysWhen Charlotte Church arrives, she starts to cry. “I break down,” she says, “every time I reach here. It’s the first thing I do when I set foot on this soil.” It’s a two-hour drive from her home in Barry to The Dreaming, the retreat centre she opened in 2023, a pilgrimage across Bannau Brycheiniog and into the myth-steeped hills of the Elan Valley in Powys, central Wales. “Two to three weeks,” she’s explaining, icy ground crunching underfoot, “is the longest I can stay away before I start clucking. As I get closer, I feel myself relaxing, a calm coming over me, my nervous system resetting.” That bodily response, she’s sure, is physiological. Tears stream. “This land holds me like nothing else. It feels like coming home; I’m enveloped here.”It’s early Januar...

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