Britain

Soaring waistlines hit record levels in Britain amid obesity crisis

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Britain’s expanding waistlines hit record levels as women’s increase by up to THREE inches on average and men’s by two inches in 24 years Women’s waists grew three inches in 24 years and men’s are two inches bigger Experts warned that many more of us are overweight than we were in the past But data … Read more

Britain at its best: Walking with Wordsworth in the Wye and Usk valleys

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Britain at its best: Walking with Wordsworth in the Wye and Usk valleys Gliffaes is an ‘ultra-comfy’ country house hotel in the Usk Valley, Wales The artist and cleric Rev William Gilpin once lauded the qualities of the river Wye Llangoed Hall, above Hay-on-Wye, is being ‘driven to yet greater heights’  By Clive Aslet For … Read more

Britain at its best: Raise a wee dram to the Isle of Islay

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The Isle of Islay is closer to the ‘island of Ireland’ (as politicians call it when squabbling over the EU ‘backstop’) than it is to Scotland’s big cities. Out there, in other words. And yet for a first-timer it seems like a microcosm of Scotland as a whole, with its mountains, heathered moorland, grazing sheep, … Read more