EVERY cup of tea is a story of comfort, joy and friendship. At times, it is about a journey through a railway station, an airport or a stop at the roadside chaiwala. It is about a place, be it the cou
20 of the Best Outdoor Swimming Pools in the UK Annie Hayes
If your last encounter with an outdoor swimming pool was Ibiza 2019, it’s about time you made a splash in the UK’s lidos. Besides offering a welcome change of scenery after the best part of a year spent indoors, swimming is the shortcut to swole you didn’t know you needed – you’ll torch fat, build injury-free muscle, and crank up your metabolism with every length.
Aesthetics aside, hitting the pool can even help you live longer. Compared to walkers, runners and couch potatoes, men who swam regularly halved their risk of dying from all causes, research from the University of South Carolina found. Make swimming a habit, and you’ll slash your risk of chronic illness, such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes and stroke, the NHS states.
Many campsites are filling up as people opt to stay at home for their holidays this summer. Photo: PA NOW that certain lockdown rules have been lifted life can begin to get back to normal; one way that this is happening is people now able to go on staycations. Following Stage 2 of the roadmap out of lockdown, venues such as campsites and self-contained holiday lets can now reopen for holidaymakers in the UK. Campsites have seen large numbers of bookings following the reopening and with uncertainty remaining around foreign travel this summer. For people still wary of going abroad or further afield in the UK, the Bradford district offers a great setting for a staycation, including the large number of pubs and restaurants around the district now open for outdoor service, many historic heritage sites and of course the stunning Yorkshire scenery on the moors and Dales.
THE Burley Bridge Association, which has been campaigning for a footbridge over the River Wharfe in the village since 1996, has announced that it has appointed a new President. Following the recent resignation of long serving Janet Street-Porter due to moving home from Nidderdale, Colin Speakman, previously Vice-President, has agreed to assume the mantle. Colin is a respected academic, author and broadcaster and Burley-in-Wharfedale resident. A co-creator of the Dales Way, now 50 years old and one of the most popular long distance paths in the country, Colin has written nearly 60 books, covering walking and history, transport guides, biographies, poems and fiction. He has recently been described in a new book by outdoor writer Roly Smith as one of 20 of Britain’s all-time “Walking Heroes”. His latest book is a biography of John Phillips, the influential C19th Yorkshire scientist who completed the first detailed geological surveys of the Yorkshire Coast and the Yorkshire