77 m. ago Abandoned funfair's sad state in Welsh seaside town as bulldozers move in

It is currently being torn apart piece by piece

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55 h. ago The once sad seaside town 45 minutes from London now a ‘trendy hub’ great for families

The once sad seaside town 45 minutes from London now a ‘trendy hub’ great for families  MyLondon

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1 week ago The Most Desirable Town to Live in Britain Is Just 30 minutes From London

The Most Desirable Town to Live in Britain Is Just 30 minutes From London  Time Out Worldwide

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2 w. ago Tiny town just 30 minutes from Manchester named England's best place to retire

The market town has been crowned England's top retirement spot, with affordable care costs, high life expectancy and stunning scenery on its doorstep

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3 w. ago Quaint town just 30 minutes from Manchester named best place to retire

The market town has been crowned England's top retirement destination in a new study, offering affordable care, stunning scenery and a wealth of activities

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3 w. ago Doctor Zhivago at 60: David Lean’s sweeping romantic relic endures

Julie Christie remains as magnetic as ever in the mammoth big screen adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s once dangerous novelThere’s no more perfect illustration of the cinematic crossroads of the mid-1960s than the year Julie Christie had in 1965. First, she starred as an amoral model in John Schlesinger’s Darling, a snapshot of Swinging London that reflected the trendy, flashy, forward-thinking culture that had seduced young adults. Then she starred as an elusive Russian beauty in Doctor Zhivago, a three-hour-plus historical epic from David Lean that was as stodgy and old-fashioned as Darling was suggestive of the future. There was an appetite for both that year – credit Christie’s astonishing magnetism for that, at least in part – but a sense that one era was crashing into another and times were about to change.It seems fitting, then, that Doctor Zhivago is about what happens when history takes a turn and a band of insurgents make a once-stable and familiar place seem completely unre...

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