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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Britain's wildest views |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 6:23 am |
| Tags: Travel, United Kingdom, Wales, Walking Holidays, Wildlife Holidays, Peak District, Lake District, Yorkshire, Norfolk, Scotland |
| From breathtaking cliffs to winsome valleys, John Beatty shares his favourite views and reveals how to find them for yourself. |
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| National portrait gallery |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 6:21 am |
| Tags: Travel, United Kingdom, Wales, Scotland, Walking Holidays, Lake District, Peak District, Yorkshire, Norfolk |
| John Beatty shares his favourite views. |
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| The stately wrecks of England |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 6:34 am |
| Tags: Uk News, Environment, Conservation, Art News, Art, Arts, Travel, Travel News, United Kingdom, Heritage |
| English Heritage's 'basket cases' need huge amounts of money to repair them, but cannot recoup the cost. |
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| The wilderness years |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 7:05 pm |
| Tags: Travel, Guardian Saturday Travel Section, Green Travel, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Family Holidays, Short Breaks |
| Like most of us, Kevin Rushby likes the idea of being green but doesn't want to give up flying or start holidaying on his allotment. Introducing a new regular column, he finds a quick fix on his doorstep. |
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| Park Cottage, Cumbria |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 7:05 pm |
| Tags: Travel, Guardian Saturday Travel Section, Hotels, United Kingdom, Short Breaks |
| This traditional B&B, in a whitewashed Cumbrian house tucked down a lane, provides Sally Shalam with a room nearly the size of a private apartment. |
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| Hang that Belgian freak with the Something About Mary hair |
| Published: July 19, 2007, 9:53 am |
| Tags: Tintin, Muslim, Jeremy Clarkson, 10 Downing Street, Mega Mosque, Petitions, United Kingdom, Politics, Christianity, Harry Potter, Children, Comedy, News |
| Adult education', as a phrase always amuses me. I always picture education of an adult nature rather than adults being educated. It's much like children's fiction' (or military intelligence') in that it can be misleading as a phrase. In my day (to exercise a phrase my late grandfather overused, even when he wasn't finishing the sentence |
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| Pole-dancing, Jeremy Clarkson and angry twins |
| Published: June 24, 2007, 4:22 pm |
| Tags: United Kingdom, European Union, United Nations, Jeremy Clarkson, Comedy, Poland, Christianity, Politics, Germany, News |
| Jeremy Clarkson can do it, obviously. He's English. But when Poles start doing it? Where will it all end? Mocking the Germans. It's fun, it's popular and it's all too easy. Last year everyone's favourite comedy racist (/ homophobe/ campaigner for the right to emit as much carbon as your hundred-valve 66-horsepower baby-seal-powered recreational |
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| Best British cycle routes |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 4:43 pm |
| Tags: Travel, Observer Escape Section, Cycling Holidays, United Kingdom, Short Breaks |
| The Tour de France, which ends today, has prompted cyclists of all levels to dust down their bikes and get pedalling. If you fancy a two-wheeled adventure, check out Rob Penn's guide to top UK trails, from a gentle eight miles in Wiltshire to 400-plus miles of Scottish splendour. |
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| Hell and high waters: should you go? |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 4:43 pm |
| Tags: Travel, Observer Escape Section, Flooding, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom |
| While some areas are still no-go zones for tourists, it's business as usual elsewhere. Gemma Bowes on the latest flood situation. |
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| High walks and shear adventure |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 4:43 pm |
| Tags: Travel, Observer Escape Section, Walking Holidays, United Kingdom |
| A 'free-range' holiday on a working farm in Cumbria has just the right ratio of spectacular hikes, hands-on activities and hearty food, writes Nell Card. |
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| Adult Autism Reality in the UK |
| Published: July 14, 2007, 11:54 am |
| Tags: United Kingdom, Neurodiversity, Autism Disorder, Autism Awareness, National Autistic Society, Adult Autism |
| The joy of autism advocates on the inter-net should read this report from from the BBC on adult autism realities in the UK. It provides some sobering perspective that the neurodiversity movement and the rose colored glasses brigade should consider before they continue to try and persuade the world that autism is wonderful. Hopefully the |
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| Top 10 pub gardens |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 10:21 am |
| Tags: Travel, Top 10s, Bars And Clubs, United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales, Lake District |
| Few things beat sitting in your favourite beer garden with a cool pint in your hand. Here's our personal pick of the best sites across the UK |
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| Book: Unbroken Spirit, by Ferzanna Riley |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 5:59 pm |
| Tags: Forced Marriage, United Kingdom, Arts, Pakistan |
| A visitor here, who I will call SK, wrote: I saw an interview on tv (This Morning) with a Muslim who wrote a book called Unbroken Spirit. I went out and bought the book and couldn’t put it down until I read it all the way through. It’s a very powerful book about her life as a British Muslim and how she tried to find her identity and |
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| Australia: Flimsy Terrorism Case Against Indian Doctor Dropped |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:37 pm |
| Tags: United Kingdom, Crime And Punishment, Australia, Technology |
| Australia drops charges over UK bomb plot James Grubel (Reuters) Australian authorities dropped terrorism charges against an Indian doctor on Friday, saying there was little chance of a conviction over his connection with a failed car bomb plot in Britain… … [Dr. Mohammed] Haneef, 27, had been charged with recklessly supporting |
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| President Bush and His Toy Car |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 10:55 am |
| Tags: In Other News, Camp David, George W Bush, Golf, Gordon Brown, Photos, President, The New York Times, United Kingdom |
| The front page of yesterday's Times offered a photo of President Bush and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown merrily golf-carting around Camp David. We glanced at the shot, amused by the cowboy president's attempt to do his squinty-eyed tough-guy look while piloting a conveyance most often used on the manicured fairways of Shinnecock or in the |
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