Were you one of the 12 million last night? That’s the number of people who watched the final ever episode of Gavin and Stacey, the TV comedy series set in South Wales. I made my own pilgrimage to Barry Island back in November to visit the sites now associated with… Read more

All alone at Denton Station; image: Paul Cooper Photography WWW.PCOOPERPHOTO.COM. To Denton, Greater Manchester, to ride the ghost train. The station, located on the Stalybridge-Stockport line in Greater Manchester was last week named as the loneliest railway station in Britain — there’s just one return service per week. I joined… Read more

To Southport, the Paris of Merseyside for my contribution from the Northwest to a summer series from Telegraph Travel about British seaside towns. Here’s my take on Southport, including a visit to Southport Market [pictured above]. Southport feels like a resort waiting for something — and preferably not another Poundland.… Read more

To Holmes Chapel, east Cheshire for an unlikely musical pilgrimage in an equally unlikely location. I joined a sneak preview of the new Harry Styles Harry’s Home Village Tour [pictured above], which launched this weekend. Read a sample from my article here: When we finally arrived at the Twemlow Viaduct,… Read more

I spent a couple of days recently in the North Shropshire region, visiting the town of Oswestry with its deli-cafe Niche [pictured above] and the nearby World Heritage Site at Ironbridge. The story appeared in this weekend’s iNewspaper travel section. Read an extract here: This border market town is a… Read more

My Lord Byron feature appeared in print in the Daily Mail travel section last week. The story was based around a visit to Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire [pictured above]. The original copy was edited for space, so here’s my first draft of the article below. He was notorious for drinking… Read more