As I walked into Florence’s grand Uffizi Gallery on Saturday, I braced myself for the inevitable throng of tourists scrambling past each other to get a glimpse of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Primavera. After all, the Uffizi receives some 5,500 visitors every day – each of them desperate to jostle to the front of … Read more
An Inspector Calls… Ye Olde Bell in Nottinghamshire is a ‘welcoming sort of place’ – but please turn down the radio Ye Olde Bell is a former coaching inn in Barnby Manor, near Retford There are 60 rooms and people come from ‘far and wide’ to visit the spa The Inspector couldn’t quite forgive being … Read more
Thieves steal 300-year-old brass bell weighing 16st from England’s smallest church which only has room for ten worshippers ‘Brazen’ theft of brass bell from the UK’s smallest church has devastated locals The 291 year old bell was made in 1729 for the 15th century Bremilham Church The building holds the Guinness World Record for being the … Read more