Looking for an escape for the weekend we headed over to Yorkshire, my home county for a couple of nights. Owned by the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire and located within the stunning Bolton Abbey Estate the country house hotel has 40 rooms and two restaurants. It is the perfect place from which to explore the Yorkshire Dales and all of the outdoor pursuits you would expect.
I have been lucky enough to interview some amazing people in my role as journalist and editor. As I spend some time filling boxes (we are moving very soon) and being ever-so-slightly sentimental about what we keep and what we recycle I have been reminded of this and wanted to share just a handful of my favourite interview memories to date…
Out of everything that children have missed out on during lockdown and all the measures in place as a result, the sense of school community, of belonging, must be at the top of the list. Rosemary Evans , headteacher and safeguarding lead at The Firs School, Chester looks at how we re-establish those all-important human connections.
Part of the de Savary hotel group, the Cary Arms & Spa family counts Mount Cinnamon and Port Louis (Grenada) and the Vanderbilt Residences (Rhode Island) as part of its family. Our expectations were high for The Inn on the Beach in Babbacombe, Devon.
Famed for his red lacquer soles Christian Louboutin is something of royalty in the fashion world and in making women feel great. Louisa Castle speaks exclusively to the beret-wearing designer
Mr Michael Oliver, OBE, DL, one of Cheshire’s ambassadors for British industry, invites us into his home to talk about business, pleasure and the art of success
Meet Director BBC North, Alice Webb - the woman behind the creation of the state-of-the-art digital broadcasting centre in MediaCityUK, mum and amateur archer