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Spring Comes to the Secret Garden

Hidden away behind Lydney Park is a magical secret garden.

On golden pond

Ponds encourage many exciting new visitors to your garden and are a great way to take a peek at even more species! Nick Brown, Derbyshire Wildlife Trust’s Wildlife Enquiries Officer, tells us more about his own pond and how to build your own

6 SENSATIONAL SPAS

Surrey has been named one of the best destinations for health and wellbeing in the UK so it’s no surprise that the county has some top notch spas. We pick our favourites

Making Moreton

Katie B Morgan takes us on a day trip to Moreton-inMarsh, while also giving an insight into how she puts together her brilliant maps!

Holding on to CLEAR BLUE WATER

Andrew Griffiths wades into the Darley Dale headquarters of Peak UK, an award-winning kayaking equipment designer, and manufacturer, to find out the secrets of its success

Finding greatness

Following his February glimpse into what makes great art, Fresh: Art Fair co-founder Anthony Wardle tells us how to find ‘greatness’ at the Fair this April

From CYCLE RACING to UPCYCLING

Triple Olympic medal winner and British Road Racing Champion Rob Hayles has turned his attention to ‘Carbon Concepts’, creating bespoke cycling-inspired items from his Peak District home. Mike Smith reports

Love tames an unruly tortoise

How Nibbles stopped being a shell-suited hooligan

CHESTERFIELD Derbyshire's ‘second city'

A great history and splendid modern developments are creating an exciting place to live and visit

CLOSE to the EDGE

Rob Collins is one of those rare artists who, in a few instinctive brush strokes, captures the breathtaking beauty of the Gloucestershire countryside WORDS:

Between two summits

Mike Smith discovers superb accommodation and great places to eat and drink in the Blackbrook Valley between Eccles Pike and Chinley Churn

Building dreams & thriving businesses

From “surfing on horseback” to precision farming: grant programmes like Cotswolds LEADER help rural economies to flourish, Siân Ellis speaks to one grant recipient

Lure of a liveaboard

Life on the waterways and the tranquility of a slow-paced existence. Robbie Cummings has made a career from living on his narrowboat, and found love on Yorkshire’s canals

…And the oldie way

Being past your sexual ‘prime’ doesn’t mean you lose your appetite for sex. Far from it, says Florence Walker

MASCARA ON THE MOORS

False eyelashes, ragged leggings, sheep to feed and nine children to tend. We join Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Livingston-Owen on the farm

Westminster's cartoon comedy

Forty years ago, Gerald Scarfe drew the opening titles for Yes Minister. The show never dates, thanks to the script and the brilliant actors

Tales from the forest

Inspired by her Ashdown Forest home, children’s author Iona Tulloch has created a tale that is helping to highlight the importance of peatland, finds Simone Hellyer

Wonderful Wetlands

Shake off that winter fog and explore some of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s wetlands

Thinking inside the box

Miriam Gross says oldies shouldn’t be snobbish about Netflix. It is cheap and convenient – and produces greater art than cinema and theatre

Outer limits

When trying to sell a property, you want to add as much value as possible to get the best price, and one of the most important things to think about is outside space

To Dye For

Textile designer Adriana Gentile launches a cuddlesome addition to her accessories brand just in time for Mother’s Day

Still lazy after all these years

Rowley Leigh is a terrible sloth. He chose an arduous life as a chef and restaurateur because it’s the only job that forced him to work hard

On the EDGE OF HISTORY

Local historian and author Duncan Cameron details the forgotten French bid to seize the English throne – with Sussex on the front line

The Storyteller

Nice Yorkshire people are the staple of Milly Johnson’s best selling books

My Oxford blues

Classics don John Davie laments a tragic decline in rigour, language skills and essay-writing, disguised by rampant grade inflation

Hope & glory

How a south London schoolgirl who wouldn’t take no for an answer broke the barriers to become an icon of woman’s football. Amanda Riley-Jones talks to Hope Powell, first team manager of Brighton & Hove Albion Women’s Football Club

Saving a treasure

It has taken two decades of hard work and dedication to save one of the county’s historic gems. Roger Borrell reports

Tales to Tell

Exploring the perfect village packed with secret history

My dad is a Catholic priest Pope

Benedict XVI shouldn’t worry about celibacy. Benedict King’s father is a better priest because he’s married with five children

HIVE MIND

With spring emerging now is a great time to think about adding some bee-friendly plants to your garden