There’s no better summer activity than a good game of tennis – the perfect mix of fresh air, exercise and cut-throat competition. But however good you look in white shorts, it all counts for nothing if you can’t hit the ball straight. And that’s where this exclusive Body&Soul offer comes in.
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The cross-dressing potter Grayson Perry has come up with a brilliant strategy for making his work look good. It’s such an obvious wheeze, I wonder why others haven’t employed it before. Asked by the Arts Council to select a show from the huge collection of modern British art it has built up, Perry has plumped [...]
Don’t be put off by the name – this coastal rural retreat could just as well be called the Crow’s Nest or even the Shipping News, because of its proximity to the entrance to Wellington harbour.
But Love Shack was what Pencarrow Lodge owners Mike and Jane Curtis called their hilltop retreat while they were building [...]
Everyone enjoys a touch of paradise, whether it’s a white-sand beach or untouched rural setting, but it seems to get harder to find a spot that is not already teeming with tourists.
Men’s web portal AskMen.com has come up with a list of its top 10 paradises on earth that have long been forgotten. This list [...]
Peter Jepson, 36, was killed in Paihia as he walked to his Waitangi home from a night out celebrating his brothers return from England.
A 21-year-old Kaikohe man was later arrested by police and charged with careless driving causing death and failing to stop to ascertain injury. He will appear in court tomorrow.
Mr Jepson leaves a [...]
We wanted an expedition, a taste of wilderness, a journey to somewhere remote. But without the budget of real Arctic explorers, my two friends and I came up with an alternative - a pilgrimage to Britain’s northernmost hotel. So, in the middle of last month, we set off for Unst, the furthest-flung inhabited island in [...]
As a kid in Salford, the only horses I saw belonged to the rag-and-bone, to the mounted Dibbles at Old Trafford or to the Travellers who sold us clothes pegs and sprays of lucky heather. Further along life’s path, I find myself cantering along ancient Spanish drovers’ routes and click-clacking up cobbled Roman roads, my [...]
