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Northumberland, Isle of Wight and Freshwater West winners in BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards 2020

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Best of Britain: BBC Countryfile Awards 2020 names Northumberland as No1 national park, Isle of Wight as the top holiday destination and Wales’ Freshwater West as the finest beach Readers of Countryfile Magazine were asked to vote for their favourite UK spots and 17,000 votes were cast Poison Garden at Alnwick Garden and Northumberlandia, a … 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