An Inspector calls… at Billesley Manor Hotel near Stratford-upon-Avon and says the Bard would liked the cosy dining room – but he doubts the £5.6m refurb included his bedroom Shakespeare is said to have written As You Like It in what is now the hotel’s As You Like It lounge The Inspector says the restaurant’s … Read more
How do you visit historic Stratford-upon-Avon without feeling like you’re on a school trip? Check-in at the town’s ‘time tunnel’ 16th-century Hotel Indigo for starters… Formerly one of Stratford’s oldest pubs, the Falcon Inn, the 93-room boutique hotel opened last year It has walls lined with wooden panels salvaged from Shakespeare’s final home across the … Read more
Emotional moment pensioner hugs her grandson, 29, for the first time in months using £70 ‘cuddle curtain’ he invented using shower guard and plastic sleeves Antony Cauvin, of Stratford-upon-Avon, hadn’t hugged gran in over two months His invention is a see-through shower curtain fitted with four long safety sleeves While hugging, his gran gave a … Read more