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A while ago I rang a friend in Mombasa to find she was at a political rally for one of the presidential candidates in our recent election...

We arrived in Germany after going through the U-bend of the Schloegener Schlinge, with pretty villages at the water's edge...

After a few years in the provinces, I was again struggling round London’s theatrical foothills, doing some work in the drama schools...

There is a common view of what goes on in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and it is perhaps epitomised in this photograph...

I recently returned from two plant hunting (what we call “plunting”) trips in East Africa. The first was on Mt. Kenya...

The UK’s previous prime minister, Boris Johnson, had this to say on his most recent visit to Kyiv: “While [the British] people are paying...

As expected, Liz Truss has now come out top in the contest to succeed Boris Johnson as leader of the British Conservative Party...

Earlier this summer my husband, Marcus, and I, together with two friends, finally set off on a Covid-postponed cruise, flying to...

In ancient times, Editors would firmly cease fisticuffs in their august columns by declaiming: "This correspondence will now cease".

The accident suffered by the British 12-year-old boy, Archie Battersbee, on 7 April at his home in Southend, England...