10 h. ago Driver rushed to hospital after lorry overturns as M6 shut for hours

A major clear-up is underway and the M6 remains closed

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27 h. ago I'm Spanish and went to a Welsh lido — it felt like I was back in the Mediterranean

It was an hour's drive from my home but it was worth every minute

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4 d. ago Man 'not happy' after driving seven hours just to test 'England's best Guinness'

A man drove from Carlisle to London to try what is said to be the 'best Guinness in England' and he was left unimpressed after finally getting his hands on a much anticipated pint

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4 d. ago Manchester lad drives seven hours for 'UK's best Guinness' but is 'not happy'

Danny, who runs the Honest Places YouTube channel, drove from Carlisle to London for what he expected to be the best pint of Guinness available outside of the Republic of Ireland

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4 d. ago Man drives seven hours to try 'England's best Guinness' and is left fuming

A YouTube favourite went on a seven-hour quest to try what he believed was the best pint of Guinness available in the whole of England but he was 'not happy' by the end of it

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5 d. ago 'Disgusting' bosses 'killed off my dad' when they closed hospice and sent him away in an ambulance in his final hours, grieving daughters say

Jack Tolson Holt, 83, died less than 48 hours after he was bundled into an emergency ambulance and driven 17 miles from the Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice, in Leeds, to a different hospice, last year.

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5 d. ago One of UK's most colourful towns with ancient castle, charming harbour and 13th century walls

The town is a two-hour drive from Cardiff and is home to a number of sandy beaches, a castle and a dinosaur park

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1 week ago The seaside town near Greater Manchester that's one of UK's best for food and drink

The town that's just an hour drive away has been called a "jewel" of the North West coast

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2 w. ago Theme park that's better than Disney only 3.5 hours from the UK

Efteling, near Tilburg in the Netherlands, has been called 'better than Disneyland' and is only a three and a half hour drive from the UK - but is it worth the trip?

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2 w. ago France urges drivers to stay off the road during ‘hottest hours of the day’

The guidance comes as thousands of UK motorists are in the country for summer holidays.

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3 w. ago Welsh seaside village that's become hotspot for Londoners escaping the city

The idyllic seaside village offers a stark contrast to the hustle and bustle of the capital, yet is just a few hours drive away.

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4 w. ago Transfer trouble and boardroom bother: vexed Newcastle face a puzzled future | Louise Taylor

A summer without a sporting director and failure to keep Alexander Isak happy has left the club with an almost dysfunctional feel“If you want to understand Newcastle you first need to understand its place in the world – that is, a very long way from anywhere. The next major city is Leeds, two hours drive to the south London feels very far away.”If Eddie Howe can only hope his prospective signings do not stumble across the Rough Guides introduction to England’s northern cities, Newcastle’s manager may also reflect that it was not supposed to be like this. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Drivers 'lose' 500 hours of their lives dealing with car admin and maintenance

Motorists spend the equivalent of a full day each year thinking about service schedules, MOTs, and potential issues

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4 w. ago BMW's Proactive Care aims to save drivers 565 hours on car admin

Drivers spend on average a full day each year thinking about service schedules - time that could be better spent doing or thinking about other thing

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4 w. ago Man shot dead close to hotel in Spanish holiday resort popular with British tourists

The victim, believed to be aged around 30, was gunned down on Sunday evening in the centre of Torrevieja an hour’s drive south of Alicante

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last month One giant leap for bettongs released into sanctuary as wildlife conservancy aims to operate on 5% of Australia

The ‘ecosystem engineers’ will roam a cat and fox free former sheep farm and help spread seeds and improve soils with their diggingGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLike a ball of fur mounted on a spring, they leapt into the crisp night air and on to a landscape of acacia scrub where they hadn’t roamed free for maybe a 100 years or more.The Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) last month released 147 of the brush-tailed bettongs on to its sanctuary at Mount Gibson, about a four-hour drive northeast of Perth on the edge of the wheat belt. Continue reading...

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