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Irish stew

Richard Lutz scurries over and round the Irish border.

28 August, 2020 in Brexit, Business, Features, Tourism, Travel.

Setting of the sweet sun

Richard Lutz bids farewell to a friend.

13 August, 2020 in Features, Most recent, Scotland.

Covid Chronicles: the last hurrah

Richard Lutz grabs a handful of meadowsweet and delivers his last food parcel. 

22 July, 2020 in Farming, Features, Most recent, Scotland, Travel.

Covid chronicles: The case of the kilted chickens

Richard Lutz wanders through the dying embers of Lockdown Land.

24 June, 2020 in Community, Farming, Features, Most recent.

Cheers and Piers

Richard Lutz is blasted by a storm and blessed with a Google promise. 

23 February, 2020 in Climate, Comment, Environment, Features, Media, Most recent, Tourism, Travel.

50 shades of you know what

Richard Lutz tours the geometry of a grey Evenlode valley.

27 January, 2020 in Architecture, Art and Leisure, Comment, Cotswolds, Features, Gloucestershire, Local history, Most recent, Religion, Tourism, Travel.

Two weeks, two walks, two winter days

Richard Lutz treks through the changes of winter.

7 December, 2019 in Features, Most recent, Photography, Tourism, Worcestershire.

Of haws, herons and hawks

Richard Lutz takes in the autumn. 

9 November, 2019 in Environment, Features, Tourism, Travel, West Midlands, Worcestershire.

The town that doesn’t see itself

Sheilagh Matheson works in an African community so poor it can’t afford mirrors.

23 October, 2019 in Charities, Comment, Features, Medicine, Most recent, Television, Travel.

Voices in the Machine

Richard Lutz queries just who benefits from ever-newer levels of digital technology.

11 February, 2019 in Business, Comment, Features, Most recent, Politics, Science & technology, Style and Design.

Table talk

Richard Lutz checks out his coffee table to find out who he is.

14 January, 2019 in Family, Features, Most recent.

UK’s largest jewellery-making store launched at Jewellery Quarter

Cooksongold to mark its 100th anniversary with new opening.

14 August, 2018 in Fashion, Features, Retail.

Birmingham Fashion Festival 2018 – call for participants

Festival returns to city after successful 2017 debut.

31 July, 2018 in Features, Festivals.

Virtual Man and other tales

Richard Lutz ponders the last seven days of a mis-spent middle age.

12 May, 2018 in Architecture, Books, Cinema, Features, Most recent, Museums, Travel.

The rights and wrongs of Mr Will Mapplebeck

Will Mapplebeck looks back at his looking forward.

11 December, 2017 in Comment, Features, Most recent, Politics.

Kenya Uncovered

Sweet wine, proverbs stitched into clothes, a 90km road race: Katy Dutko, an educational aid officer in Africa, offers a page from her Kenyan notebook

23 November, 2017 in Features, Most recent, Tourism, Travel.

What the stones remember; what you will never know

Richard Lutz gets down and dirty to come up against history in the raw.

18 November, 2017 in Environment, Features, Most recent, Travel.

That was the walk that was..and other tales

Richard Lutz checks out how he wandered through another week.

28 October, 2016 in Comment, Features, Gardening, Most recent, Travel, West Midlands, Worcestershire.

Meeting Up in Shanghai: Flatscreens, money, internet shopping… but still wary of the past

Journalist Sheilagh Matheson catches up with old Chinese friends – 40 years after they first met. Times have changed.

14 May, 2015 in Comment, Features, Most recent, Politics, Tourism, Travel.
Antiques experts

Meet the TV experts and become an antiques bargain hunter

Antiques Roadshow meets Cash in the Attic with the launch of luxury day trips to learn from TV experts how to spot a cut-price collector’s item.

28 April, 2015 in Art and Leisure, Features.

Strictly remembering

Simon Hale talks to Strictly star Brendan Cole about his upcoming tour.

30 December, 2014 in Dance, Features.

Mulling It Over

Richard Lutz heads towards an edge of Britain rarely visited.

3 September, 2014 in Environment, Features, Most recent, Tourism, Travel, United Kingdom.
Kyrenia harbour and the Kyrenia Mountains

Cyprus: 40 years ago I was liberated

Ugur Karagozlu recalls fearful times on the troubled island of Cyprus – when Turkish forces intervened.

19 August, 2014 in Community, Features.

August 1914 – One hundred years since the Great War started

To commemorate the start of the First World War Andy Goff went to France and Belgium

4 August, 2014 in Features, Most recent, Tourism, Travel.

Spaceships, Guns and Breakdancing

Tom Bennett investigates the Destiny Beta.

1 August, 2014 in Features, Reviews, Science & technology.

Pixel Perfect – The resurgence of the 8-bit pixel art style

Tom Bennett brings us up to date with a step back in time for computer gamers.

30 June, 2014 in Features, Most recent, Reviews.

Bigger than Dylan

Dave Woodhall talks to John Otway, music’s most successful failure.

27 November, 2013 in Features, Music.

The big journey

Dave Woodhall speaks to Big Country guitarist Bruce Watson.

4 November, 2013 in Features, Music.

Book review: Alice Munro’s Dear Life

In the light of today’s Nobel Literature Prize award we reproduce Laurence Inman’s review of the winner’s Dear Life.

10 October, 2013 in Books, Features, Most recent.

Thought for the month

What can you do to help others? Gordon Harley has an idea.

9 September, 2013 in Features, Most recent.

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