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FOR THE last 10,000 years the ancient Phoenician city of Baalbek has been continuously inhabited. Much more recently, just two thousand years ago, the Romans built a vast and fabulous temple complex here that was planned to rival the best in the worl

FOR NEARLY half a century Delia Smith was the nation’s cookery teacher. From a TV studio, or her own kitchen deep in the Suffolk countryside, she taught us the best way to boil an egg, make an omelette or prepare a simple dinner party. Her TV shows a

THE REPAIR Shop’s famous logo in lights wasn’t really needed. The Court Barn was instantly recognisable as the home of TV’s friendliest and most heartwarming reality show. But today the logo and the string of lights along the edge of the low thatched

THE CLOCKS on board are all frozen at one minute past three in the afternoon. That was the time, on December 11 1997, when The Queen was piped ashore for the very last time. Forty-four years earlier she had sent a posh bottle of wine on a collision c

I REMEMBER the first time time I was introduced to electric bikes more than a decade ago. After years of expensively trying to save fractions of an ounce off the weight of a bike, along comes this heavyweight, piling on the pounds and going against a

Write to Your views, Choice, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton Southgate, Peterborough PE2 6GX, or email us at: ([email protected]). (Views expressed are those of the individual correspondent and not necessarily those of the magazine) I always find Ch

OUT ON a Sunday morning bike ride through the local country lanes. The villages roll by: Brandon, Stubton, Claypole, Hough on the Hill, Caythorpe. It’s a bit breezy but the going is easy – I’m riding an electric bike. Wind; no problem. Hills; no prob

LOOK ACROSS the low dunes, with their clumps of wind-ruffled beach grass, and there are miles of sands washed by the grey Atlantic waves with, every so often, a weather-worn home on stilts or a hooped lighthouse in black and white. Little harbour tow

EACH YEAR in June, communities across the UK get together for The Big Lunch, a day to share food, celebrate and say thank you to our neighbours. This year the party is bigger than ever as the annual get-together gets a royal makeover to become The Bi

I DON’T know about you, but I’ve found myself from time to time having a symptom, a pain, some discomfort, and absolutely knowing it’s not just an isolated problem, but connected to something broader. And also knowing that treating it in isolation is

A LONG time ago, when Ford Cortinas and Vauxhall Vivas still roamed the earth and a gallon of petrol cost seven shillings (that’s 8p a litre, by the way), there was a mysterious place in Middle England where all roads seemed to disappear. On the maps

IN 1972 Hollywood was m trouble with a combination of television and a dearth of decent movies leading to alarming falls in cinema audiences. The release of The Godfather that year changed everything, heralding, in director Francis Ford Coppola, a ne

AT 12 minutes past three on the afternoon of May 2, 1952, the age of jet travel dawned at London Airport as a sleek, shiny airliner lifted off the tarmac. De Havilland Comet G-ALYP in BOAC livery was making the first-ever commercial flight by a jet p

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ProQ Barbecues and Smokers have launched The Flatdog portable BBQ grill, and it could be a game-changer for outdoor cooking. Built to last, it folds down as thin as a laptop and easily converts into a high-spec barbecue with ample grilling space for

THERE SEEMS to be no let-up in the amount of conflicting advice given by scientific research, the health service, pressure groups, environmentalists and climate change activists about how much – and, more specifically, what – we should be eating. One

News of the best in the entertainment world this month The long hot summer of 1976. I was stuck in that limbo between exams and life-changing results, working in the local supermarket to earn much-needed cash. The Bellamy Brothers were on the radio,

HAVE A look in your purse or wallet. What you’ll find there possibly is a glimpse of the future. Because I bet you a pound to a penny – remember pennies? – that some banknotes you find have been there a while, even though you’ve been spending. Fact i

June Choice is on sale in newsagents from May 25 Taking control How couples can manage their finances Time passages Al Stewart revisited Natural Woman Michaela Strachan On the right road Staying healthy as we age Top tips Ways to enjoy asparagus It’s