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Those who have lived or worked anywhere in Africa will recognise the problem. Slow hospitality service, inefficient transport, fickle...

On any given holiday in France – and there have been many in our family - I always ponder what the French truly think of les rosbifs, the...

Every year during the Royal Three Counties Show in Malvern, the ears are assailed by a strangely familiar roar. Is that a…? No, surely...