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• 08/08/07 12:17

  Visit Britain sticks rock on the map
  

  The UK’s rock music is celebrated in a new campaign by Visit Britain. The tourism site has produced a map that highlights the places associated with Britain’s best-known musical exports.....

  
  

• 07/08/07 12:21

  Countryside is ‘open for business’
  

  Rural areas across the UK are declaring themselves open for business, despite the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease at Pirbright in Surrey. During the last outbreak in 2001, restrictions on access to the countryside and a downturn in visitor numbers cost rural businesses billions of pounds in lost revenue.....

  
  

• 06/08/07 12:56

  2007 Eisteddfod underway in Flintshire
  

  The 2007 National Eisteddfod of Wales is well underway, with 16,710 people attending the opening day on Friday. The annual Welsh cultural festival is taking place this year on the Pentrehobyn Estate in Mold, North Wales.....

  
  

• 03/08/07 12:20

  Cowes Week ahoy
  

  Thousands of yachts and sailing enthusiasts will converge on the Solent from today, as an extended Skandia Cowes Week gets underway. The world famous sailing regatta takes place on the water between Southampton in Hampshire and Cowes on the Isle of Wight.....

  
  

• 02/08/07 03:17

  Manchester Piccadilly tops league of stations
  

  Rail passengers have voted Manchester’s Piccadilly station the best in the UK. Rail consumer watchdog Passenger Focus interviewed 25,000 people at Britain’s 20 busiest stations for its spring 2007 National Passenger survey.....

  
  

• 01/08/07 05:08

  Lottery win for Cambridgeshire’s Great Fen Project
  

  A Cambridgeshire environmental project has won the largest grant of lottery money yet for a natural project in England. The Great Fen Project will receive an award of £8.....

  
  

• 31/07/07 02:32

  Robin Hood Festival ‘Sherwood’ make a good day out
  

  The annual Robin Hood Festival is underway this week in Nottinghamshire. The festival, which takes place until Sunday 5 August, is described as a “celebration of the life and times of the world’s most famous outlaw”.....

  
  

• 30/07/07 06:12

  Forth hovercraft crossing hailed “a major success”
  

  More than 32,000 passengers used the Forth hovercraft crossing during its two-week trial, its operator has revealed. The Forthfast service operated from 16-28 July, making 11 daily return crossings between Kirkcaldy and Portobello, on the outskirts of Edinburgh.....

  
  

• 27/07/07 06:03

  Shortlist for major architecture prize announced
  

  Two of the England’s finest buildings are in the running for a major architecture prize, it was announced today. The shortlist for the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba) Stirling Prize includes the redesigned Young Vic theatre in London, and the Savill Building in Windsor.....

  
  

• 26/07/07 04:08

  Government’s 30-year strategy for rail
  

  The government has published a white paper in which it sets out a rail strategy for the next 30 years. The Department for Transport says that it expects capacity on the country’s rail network to increase by 180 million passengers in that time, with a 22.....