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• 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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• 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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• Britain's favourite view

  Published: August 9, 2007, 7:50 pm

  Tags: Travel, United Kingdom, Wales, Scotland, London, Stonehenge England, Bath, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Cornwall, Liverpool

  Feast your eyes on the best views in Britain, from a Waterloo sunset to Hadrian's Wall. Britain's Favourite View will run as a series next month on ITV1. For more information on the views visit britainsviews.com.

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• Volunteer in the UK

  Published: August 16, 2007, 10:56 am

  Tags: Travel, Volunteering, Gap Year Travel, United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Gap Years, Environment

  A-level results are out and scores of students are eager to head off on their gap years. But, says Vicky Baker, there are great volunteer projects right on your own doorstep.

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• Welsh get incomprehensible anti-GPS signs

  Published: August 28, 2007, 12:17 pm

  Tags: Anit Gps, Gps, Traffic, Traffic Signs, Trafficsigns, Wales, Welsh

  Filed under: GPSApparently looking to avoid unfortunate incidents like this (or this, or this), the Welsh Assembly recently agreed to put up signs warning drivers not to use their GPS along narrow lanes. Problem is, the drivers may end up spending more time trying to figure out the meaning of the signs than they ever did staring at their GPS.

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• Cleaning The Millennium Stadium

  Published: August 30, 2007, 1:27 pm

  Tags: Wales

  This is a job I wouldn't fancy doing. Mind you, the view would be great. In case you are wondering, he's cleaning the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

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• Saint Diana: On the 10th Anniversary of her Death

  Published: August 31, 2007, 1:05 pm

  Tags: Celebrities, Diana, Lady Diana, Princess Diana, Princess Of Wales

  Some Britons may have come to regret their queen-bashing, flower-tossing, and mile-long queues to sign her "Book of Remembrance," but for many, Peter Singer points out in a recent column, Diana has become something akin to a saint. "Some had...

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• I vow to thee my country...

  Published: August 26, 2007, 9:20 am

  Tags: Diana Princess Of Wales

  of the late Princess of Wales', and will be out again for her memorial service.  Which will cause some consternation:  only three years ago a bishop called for it to be banned as un-Christian, racist and even Nazi-like in sentiment. This led to an entertainingly harrumphing argument  on the Today website, since the accusation

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• John Barrowman Appears at Cardiff, Wales Mardi Gras with Partner

  Published: September 6, 2007, 11:40 am

  Tags: Gay Pride, John Barrowman, News, Wales

  & Gay Mardi Gras in Cardiff, Wales where he has a home with his partner, British architect Scott Gill. Barrowman thrilled the crowd by getting up on the main stage and instructing the audience how to deal with some anti-gay protestors who were outside the festival. Said Barrowman: "My partner and I - Scott step up - this is my partner

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• Open House 2007

  Published: September 6, 2007, 9:13 am

  Tags: Travel, Cultural Trips, United Kingdom, Architecture, Wales, Scotland, London

  Steve Rose takes a sneak preview of some of the buildings that will be open to the public during this year's Open House and Heritage events. (Scotland's Heritage Open Days Sept 6-9, London's Open House Sept 15 &16, Wales Sept 8/9, 15/16 and 22/23.)

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• Best of the net

  Published: September 7, 2007, 6:59 pm

  Tags: Travel, Guardian Saturday Travel Section, Travel Websites, Wales, Short Breaks

  The chintz-free guide to Wales

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• UK allowed to keep imperial measurements

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:17 am

  Tags: Business Economics Finance, Human Interest, Currency Markets, United Kingdom, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales

  The European Union (EU) says it will allow Britain to continue using pounds, miles and pints rather than the metric system.

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• The best festivals of summer 2007

  Published: September 13, 2007, 5:40 am

  Tags: Travel, Festivals, Glastonbury, United Kingdom, Serbia, Denmark, Scotland, Wales

  The mud, the music and the memory loss ... luckily we're here to help you remember the best festival moments of 2007.

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• Wallabies will shake off rustiness, says Connolly

  Published: September 15, 2007, 6:21 pm

  Tags: Sport, Rugby Union, Rugby World Cup, Australia, France, United Kingdom, Wales

  Australia coach John Connolly toasted his team's 32-20 Rugby World Cup win over Wales and insisted his side will find a cure to their indisciplined second-half display which could cost them dear later in the tournament.

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