Bed and Bard

9:50am Saturday 19th April 2008

Taking time out from interviewing celebs, TV writer Steve Pratt spends a weekend taking a look behind the scenes of London's theatreland THE members of the cast of the London West End production of A Weekend At The Strand Palace were assembled in the bar, supping cocktails with producer and host Ben. This was the start of a three-act drama that proved full of laughter, tears and a few shocks with appearances by ghosts, Shakespeare and the women of Troy.

Capital treats

1:01pm Saturday 5th April 2008

Planning a family outing to London this summer? Christine Fieldhouse samples some of the attractions

The show must go on

9:26am Saturday 29th March 2008

This year sees the celebration of 100 years of West End theatre

Playing mansions

10:02am Saturday 1st March 2008

Peta King lives life in luxury at an exclusive country house retreat

The Tudor trail

10:03am Saturday 1st March 2008

Set-jetters, tourists who visit film locations, are poised to descend on Kent with the release this weekend of the film, The Other Boleyn Girl. Here are some of the must-see destinations

Banish the blues

10:05am Saturday 1st March 2008

AS we slowly get through the winter months, summer feels like a lifetime away, but the award-winning hotel, Middlethorpe Hall & Spa in York could have just what you need to banish the blues with their Veuve Cliquot Champagne Spa Break.

Taking the low road

10:27am Saturday 23rd February 2008

John Hobbs discovers how a family from Zimbabwe is helping to put the Scottish town of Moffat on the tourist map

Still waters

9:24am Saturday 9th February 2008

Gavin Engelbrecht takes a boat trip behind the former Iron Curtain and discovers a part of Germany that reveals some dark secrets THE sun beats down from a cloudless sky... a thrumming engine purrs softly underneath. Cold beer in hand I watch an idyllic riverside scene glide by.