Picturesque villages across Britain usually teeming with tourists fall quiet as coronavirus lockdown

Britain’s picture postcard villages as they used to be: Picturesque hamlets and towns across Britain usually teeming with visitors fall quiet as coronavirus lockdown means tourists are staying away Pictures reveal how some of Britain’s most popular villages for tourists are eerily quiet due to the lockdown Haworth, Yorkshire, famed for its connection to the … Read more

It should be teeming – but like all of Britain’s locked down garden centres, it is a ghost town

The wallflowers are looking magnificent. The tulips and primulas are in full bloom. All around me are beds and tables full of magnificent plants in the best of health – thousands of them – and all waiting for a good home. Except there is no one here today, apart from Colin Campbell-Preston, a man who … Read more