19 h. ago ‘The Salt Path gave us back our life’: walking back to happiness on Cornwall’s South West Coast Path

As a film of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir The Salt Path is released, we follow in her footsteps along the Cornish section‘I want to tell you something. I have a stage 4 brain tumour, and I don’t know how long I have left.” When fellow walker Peter utters these words to me at the Minack theatre in Porthcurno on Cornwall’s south coast, I half think he might be reading lines for a new play. Behind him, the waves are dancing, while mist swirls on the wind as though spooling from a smoke machine.It had only been an hour since I first met him and his wife, Michelle, as we all took shelter from the freezing wind in a hut at nearby Gwennap Head. I had asked why they were walking the South West Coast Path – the 630-mile (1,014km) trail that weaves its way from the seaside town of Minehead in Somerset around to Poole harbour in Dorset, via the windswept headlands, secluded coves and beaches of Devon and Cornwall. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago The classic seaside town five miles from Blackpool with a huge beach, splash park and top chippy

There's no better place for a good old-fashioned seaside experience during the Easter holidays

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4 d. ago Pretty UK seaside town where you'll find one of Europe's longest sandy beaches

Burnham-on-Sea has been hailed as a 'classic' British seaside town with its picturesque Victorian pier, array of fish and chips shops and ice cream parlours - and of course the sandy shores

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5 d. ago Beautiful UK beach where dinosaurs once roamed is just 2 miles from famous town

Soaring cliffs, fossil-filled sands, and even sightings of a mysterious sinking ship - it's hard to believe this secluded cove is just a stone's throw from one of the most popular UK coastal towns

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6 d. ago The gorgeous beach with one of the UK’s best chippies an hour from Greater Manchester

With a Victorian pier, beach huts and a splash park, it's perfect for a day out during the Easter holidays

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9 d. ago Huge wildfire burning near Scots town as inferno is seen for miles

The fire has created huge concern amongst locals on social media with the inferno seen for miles.

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9 d. ago Dismembered UK scientist may have been killed by organ traffickers, his horrified relatives fear as map shows how hacked up body was scattered around Colombian town

Alessandro Coatti's remains have been found scattered around a town in Colombia, the torso found miles away from the dismembered legs, head, hands and feet.

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1 week ago Pretty Spanish town that's only six miles from Benidorm but is much more attractive

The town of La Nucia has been described as the perfect hideaway and is a far cry from Benidorm's high-rise hotels. The village's name translates from Spanish as "delicious"

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1 week ago 'Best seaside town in Britain' is actually a few miles from the sea

Dartmouth in Devon, England, has been named one of the UK's best seaside towns despite not being on the coast and is perfect for a summer holiday with picturesque views

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1 week ago First they faced bombing during Myanmar’s civil war. Then came the devastating earthquake

Peter Popham speaks to a monk about the devastation the 7.7 magnitude tremor has wrought on the town of Mingun – a few miles from the epicentre. And how it has only added to the woes of a region caught up in the country’s civil war

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1 week ago ‘Something to be proud of’: how an Irish town got a sewage makeover – and stopped discharging its waste into the sea

Arklow’s sleek new wastewater treatment plant is a collaborative triumph between engineers, contractors and architects Clancy Moore. And it’s amazingly unsmelly “Who’d want to live next to a sewage treatment plant?” asks the architect Andrew Clancy, who with his business partner Colm Moore runs the Dublin-based practice Clancy Moore. Who indeed, yet they have had to find a way to overcome precisely this difficulty. In the coastal town of Arklow, 40 miles south of the Irish capital, they have designed a wastewater facility that seeks to act as a landmark for the town, an agent of its renewal and growth, and a good neighbour to the homes and shops and places of work that it is hoped will be built alongside. The plant consists of two calm oblongs of mysterious scale, their long horizontals echoing the line where the sea meets the sky, plus a third more domestic structure alongside, all in a marine blue-green colour you could call pale teal.The project is in illustrious company. The tra...

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2 w. ago The quaint market town rocked by a 'drugs crisis': How gangs are flooding crack cocaine and heroin on to the streets of Keighley... and locals are left to pick up the pieces

On the face of it, Keighley is a picture postcard market town, just as attractive as historic Skipton, a few miles down the road across the North Yorkshire border.

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2 w. ago ‘We are so grateful’: how play therapy can help children after disaster

In North Carolina, kids affected by Hurricane Helene are putting this method, often inaccessible, to the testOn a winter afternoon at the old Methodist church in Swannanoa, North Carolina, a group of young children gathered around a special sandbox. The sand was silky and lavender-scented. The toys inside were carefully chosen: small sections of wooden fence, fist-sized plastic houses, tea lights with battery-operated flames, matchbox-sized police cars and construction machines.In the wake of Hurricane Helene last autumn, these objects took on new meaning in the town of 5,000 miles (8,000km) east of Asheville. The storm downed thousands of trees and knocked out power and water for weeks. Driving water, wind and mudslides swept away people, buildings and fences. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside Newcastle's historic Carabao Cup parade: 300,000 Magpies rejoiced in the streets as celebrities and legends alike bowed before their heroes for once in a lifetime scenes, writes CRAIG HOPE

CRAIG HOPE IN NEWCASTLE: It was an ocean of black and white, a force-of-nature convergence on the tributary running the mile between St James' Park and the Town Moor.

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3 w. ago Vehicle of four US soldiers missing in Lithuania found submerged in water

US army says search efforts are ongoing after Nato secretary general tells reporters servicemembers were ‘killed’The vehicle of four United States soldiers missing in Lithuania has been discovered submerged in water, the US army said, adding that search efforts for the soldiers were ongoing.The soldiers went missing during a military drill during an exercise at the General Silvestras Žukauskas training ground in Pabradė, a town located less than 10km (6 miles) from the border with Belarus. Continue reading...

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