47 h. ago The amazing ice cream shop nestled in a countryside village that's worth the drive this Easter

The beautiful Lancashire village is home to an award-winning ice cream shop

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49 h. ago Archaeology wonder on Scottish isle is a treasure trove of human bones and artefacts

An island community will become Scotland’s first to buy the ancient structure after securing over £300,000 in funding

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4 d. ago The old tractor shed now a dreamy cottage stay at famous farm

You can have a quirky staycation at the famous Maynard's Farm known for its award-winning bacon in this cottage that fits up to four people

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5 d. ago The quirky farm shop village with free play area, tearooms and treasure trove stalls

It boasts treasure trove shops, a huge cafe with outdoor seating and a free play area for kids and is not far off the M6

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5 d. ago 'I joined an unconventional tour group to make the most of a Mediterranean holiday'

Reporter Ellen Jenne found new friends on tour of an island full of treasures. The eight-day tour unveiled a treasure trove of historic gems, architectural masterpieces and dreamy bays.

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5 d. ago Plans unveiled to transform former Stirlingshire coffee shop into flats

The proposal will see the current arrangement of the coffee shop and two flats transformed into five properties in the village's Main Street.

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6 d. ago Emmerdale's new village shop owner 'exposed' as fans believe it's soap legend

An Emmerdale favourite is set to leave the soap village as he steps down as owner of the shop – but fans think they've already figured out who the new owner will be

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6 d. ago Emmerdale shop's new owner 'exposed' after 16 years as returning soap legend

Emmerdale fans are convinced they've worked out who is set to take over the village's beloved Eric's Shop following Eric Pollard's recent ordeal in the ITV soap

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8 d. ago Emmerdale new owner of Eric's shop 'sealed' and they're already in the village

Emmerdale spoilers have hinted there could be a new owner of the village shop currently owned by Eric Pollard on the ITV soap, with him planning on selling up or the money

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8 d. ago Emmerdale fans 'work out' which villager will buy Pollard's shop after 'scandal'

Viewers think there's only one villager that will be able to take on the farm shop

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1 week ago The lovely farm shop village with free play area, cafes and petting zoo

It boasts a free play area, cafes, restaurants and quirky independent shops in the heart of Lancashire countryside

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1 week ago The powerful voices that put Greater Manchester at the forefront of HIV activism

A treasure trove of history is going on public display for the first time

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1 week ago Average person has £65 ‘forgotten funds’ lying in these places, says NatWest

Brits are unknowingly sitting on a ‘hidden treasure trove’

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1 week ago ‘Scary times’: New York shopkeepers plan ‘astronomical’ price hikes under Trump tariffs

Small businesses that import goods brace for steep price increases that they have to pass on to their customersIt’s just two days since Donald Trump launched his extraordinary tariff assault on the world in a bid to rebuild the US economy and roll back an era of globalization. But already shopkeepers are bracing for recession, and their customers spending less, as they prepare to increase prices.“We’re going to have to put our prices up and people aren’t going to like it,” said Ian Anderson, store manager at Tea and Sympathy, a UK grocery store, restaurant and fish-and-chip shop stalwart in Manhattan’s West Village. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Secrets of Success: the church that served a plantation remains a monument of resistance

Amid the site in rural Jamaica that once belonged to a Guardian financier may lie a treasure trove of artefacts that tell the story of Britain’s history of colonisation and enslavementStanding amid the ruins of Success, a former sugar plantation in Hanover, rural Jamaica, there is a muted silence, interrupted by the occasional rumble of a vehicle passing, overripe cocoa pods falling to the ground and green iguanas scuttling across dying leaves on the estate floor.Hidden from the lively community just outside its boundaries, the overgrown site today is a stark contrast to what would have existed there more than a century ago. One of more than 800 sugar plantations across the island, Success was once co-owned by Sir George Philips, one of the 11 men who financed the launch of the Manchester Guardian in 1821.A brick likely to have been used in the construction of a building on the sprawling estate Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Welcome to Britain's kindest village: Volunteers run shop, library and post office, pub is locally

Residents of Trawden in Lancashire run their own community centre, pub, shop and post office and hold regular friendship meetings for the elderly in what must be Britain's kindest village.

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3 w. ago The Scottish Highlands village with 'perfect' fish and chip shop and Outlander abbey

Whether you're an Outlander fan or just love a good fish supper, our latest Village of the Week is for you.

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3 w. ago ‘It’s a bit like PTSD’: Cambridgeshire villagers react after mystery killing of alpacas and sheep

Residents say they are still ‘shocked and horrified’ after farm animals shot dead in East HatleyThe last time Mick Marshall can recall a crime happening in Hatley, John Major was still the prime minister. “We got broken into in 1996 and that’s it. That was a long time ago,” he said.The 81-year-old runs the Hatley Shop and Post Office with his wife, a quaint little shop shrouded in green shrubbery. The Cambridgeshire village, which is hidden up a long country road lined with small farms, is so quiet that some days Marshall nary serves a soul. “Sometimes we don’t have any customers, sometimes it’s two or three,” he said. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Who Is Government? by Michael Lewis review – what Doge is trying to destroy

The Moneyball author is joined by writers including Dave Eggers and Geraldine Brooks in a hymn of praise to the workers who keep America’s cogs turningIt is a tad obnoxious for Michael Lewis, perhaps America’s most consistently successful nonfiction author, to open his new book by boasting that a previous one sold half a million copies, but bear with him. The book in question was 2018’s The Fifth Risk, in which Lewis smartly responded to Donald Trump’s first administration with profiles of a handful of unknown federal government employees in order to valorise what Trump scorned and highlight the cost of breaking it. His point in the introduction to Who Is Government? is that you could lift the lid on any department and find a similar treasure trove of stories: people you’ve never heard of, doing work whose importance you’ve never understood.Last year, Lewis assembled a crack team of long-form writers to uncover more of these stories for the Washington Post, and those articles are co...

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