February 2023

• Four of Europe’s best beaches are apparently right here in the UK
• Now for sale: this Welsh bookshop that comes filled with hundreds of books
• Alert: EasyJet is selling flights to Spain and Portugal for less than £20
• How to watch Jupiter and Venus meet in the sky this week
• This English university is offering a ‘first-of-its-kind’ Ukrainian language course
• ‘Aftersun’ and ‘The Woman King’ win big at the UK’s feminist film awards
• Contactless train tickets could soon be rolled out across south-east England
• Move over, Heathrow Express: the UK has a new most expensive railway journey
• It’s official: Starbucks’s olive oil coffee is coming to the UK
• This island in Wales officially has one of the best night skies in the world
• The UK’s worst short-haul airline has been revealed (and no, it’s not Ryanair)
• Students at this top university have voted for fully vegan menus
• 12 takeaways from the UK’s four-day working week experiment
• The small English city at the centre of the global 15-minute-city storm
• Where to watch ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ and all the BAFTA winners
• Now for sale: a lavish country manor that inspired Virginia Woolf
• A ‘Peaky Blinders’ theme park in Birmingham is ‘on the cards’
• These are the parts of the UK that will be worst affected by climate change
• Why are we seeing empty shelves in British supermarkets?
• Revealed: these are the 20 most polluted rivers in the UK
• A massive shark has apparently been spotted off the Cornish coast
• Wildcats are being released into the English countryside for the first time in 500 years
• Harry Potter’s birthplace is available to rent on Airbnb
• These are the best (and worst) supermarkets of 2023, according to Which?
• Another ‘Beast from the East’ could be on its way to the UK
• A really, really tiny airport in Kent could soon launch flights to Europe
• For sale: a train station in Scotland that one lucky rail buff could make their home
• This surprising city has been named the UK’s most underrated holiday destination
• Oxfam has launched a competition to win Glastonbury tickets – here’s how to enter
• Britain’s biggest railway company is offering cut-price tickets to lure back commuters
• The mysterious backstory of Madrí lager – and why it’s suddenly appeared in every pub
• Here’s the full list of new Popeyes locations opening across the UK
• A new Banksy mural has appeared in Margate for Valentine’s Day
• Passport stamps will soon be scrapped for Brits travelling to Europe
• A new ferry service could finally link up Devon and Wales
• Now for sale: this epic Scottish mansion that’s straight out of a period drama
• Norovirus is spreading in England – here are the symptoms to look out for
• Hello, sunshine! A ‘mini heatwave’ will bring 15C temperatures to the UK this week
• A massive historical theme park could be opening just an hour from London
• Everything we know about the 2023 Brit Awards
• This tiny northern airport could be launching new flights to Europe
• Ryanair is launching loads of new routes from Edinburgh Airport this summer
• Alert: Scotland is scrapping peak rail fares for six months
• Want to *really* downsize? The UK’s shortest house could be yours for £70,000
• This country pub is becoming the UK’s first vegan carvery
• Calling all metalheads: a Black Sabbath ballet will tour the UK this autumn
• Take the train to Birmingham and you’ll soon be met by this massive mechanical bull
• Revealed: these are officially the UK’s best new pubs
• This stunning Grand Designs-style ‘eco-home’ has just hit the market
• How to get tickets for Beyoncé’s 2023 Renaissance UK tour
• Alert: loads and loads of snow could be on the way this week
• Everything we know about Rihanna’s rumoured 2023 UK tour
• The UK’s 6 best emerging DJs (and yes, none are from London)
• More crap rail news? Return train tickets are set to be scrapped
• Wales could be getting five new train stations to boost links to England
• Now on the market: a massive farmhouse with its very own pub
• A stunning new outdoor theatre is opening in a lavender field near London
• How Cornwall went to war with Greggs (again)
• Could the government be about to act on drink spiking in clubs?
• A ‘750-mile blizzard’ could chuck down three full inches of snow next week
• How to watch the 2023 Super Bowl halftime show in the UK
• This pretty English market town is the UK’s devil-worshipping capital
• Why is the internet so full of disturbingly sexual food videos?
• What do young Scots think about the controversial gender reform bill?
• This new drug-warning app could save your life on your next night out
• The group fighting for disability justice in British museums
• What’s it like to take the real-life Hogwarts Express to Scotland?
• Four British workers on why they’re going on strike this month
• How three British workers have really found the four-day working week trial
• Gulls aloud: why are so many of the seabirds flocking to our cities?
• WTF is going on with the UK rental market?
• Why is everyone moving to Sheffield right now?
• Is Liverpool getting fed up with Beatles tourism?
• ‘It’s hitting boiling point’: why 2022 was a breakthrough year for Welsh-language music
• Nose-to-tail haggis? How the UK’s top restaurants fell in love with Scottish food
• ‘Oat milk obsession, 37!’ How Britain’s zillennials got hooked on bingo
• This UK Airbnb got more Instagram likes than any other in 2022
• How to see the ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ green comet in the UK
• Here’s how you could win the chance to feed the pandas at Edinburgh Zoo
• Revealed: the coffee chains with the most (and least) caffeine in their cups