Black Friday offer to offset the winter blues
By Martin Banks January can feel like a long, grey stretch after the festive rush; the sparkle fades and spirits dip.
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November 12, 2025 UK’s top 50 Asian eateries named
By Martin Banks The identities of the UK’s top 50 Asian restaurants has been announced.
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November 4, 2025 Top chef opens Marrakech Café in Canterbury
By Martin Banks Dev Biswal, the owner-chef The Cook’s Tale (formerly The Ambrette), the renowned modern Anglo-Indian restaurant in Canterbury, has opened Café Marrakech in the city.
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November 1, 2025 Andrew’s move out of Royal Lodge may not happen until new year
Andrew Mountbatten Windsor will not have to leave Royal Lodge immediately and could move to Sandringham as late as the new year, the BBC understands. On Thursday, King Charles stripped his younger brother of his titles and honours, and moved to force him out of his Windsor mansion. He will be moving to a property […]
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October 31, 2025 King’s statement on Andrew in full
Buckingham Palace has announced that Prince Andrew is to lose his prince title and will be leaving his Royal Lodge home in Windsor. Andrew Mountbatten Windsor – as he is now to be known – gave up his other royal titles earlier this month, including the Duke of York, after more questions and allegations about his […]
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October 25, 2025 Annual poppy appeal launched by the Royal British Legion
By Martin Banks The annual launch of the UK’s Royal British Legion poppy appeal has been marked with a moving tribute to the war dead.
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August 29, 2025 Tales of a former gambling addict
By Martin Banks According to the latest Public Health England report on gambling, 0.5% of the population (approximately 246,000 people) are problem gamblers, and 3.8% (2.2 million people) are ‘at-risk’ gamblers.
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August 15, 2025 Postcards with Purpose
By Martin Banks As the UK swelters under another tropical heatwave, a different kind of flow is arriving in MPs’ post trays across Westminster. Not the usual spidery letters or worthy constituency reports — but brightly coloured postcards, stamped and sent from every corner of the globe: Porto, Portland, Port Douglas… and beyond. These cards […]
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August 13, 2025 UK Groups Campaign for Overseas Constituencies
By Martin Banks A summer campaign has been launched to promote the merits of overseas constituencies for UK citizens living abroad.
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August 8, 2025 Suffolk makes for great getaway for summer
By Martin Banks There is one part of England that is often overlooked by visitors from Belgium and that is a real shame because it really does offer “something different”.
