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With a population of just under eight million, London is Europe's largest city, spreading across an area of more than 620 square miles from its core on the River Thames. Ethnically it's also ... Read more...
Venerable, dramatic EDINBURGH , the showcase capital of Scotland, is a historic, cosmopolitan and cultured city. The setting is wonderfully striking; the city is perched on a series of extinct ... Read more...
GLASGOW 's earliest history, like so much else in this surprisingly romantic city, is obscured in a swirl of myth. The city's name is said to derive from the Celtic Glas-cu , which loosely ... Read more...
Think of OXFORD and inevitably you think of its university, revered as one of the world's great academic institutions, inhabiting honey-coloured stone buildings set around ivy-clad quadrangles. ... Read more...
Controlling a strategic crossing point over the Trent, the Saxon town of NOTTINGHAM was built on one of a pair of sandstone hills whose 130-foot cliffs looked out over the river valley. In 1068, ... Read more...
Though only twelve miles from Bristol, BATH has a very different feel from its neighbour more harmonious, compact, leisurely and complacent. The city's elegant crescents and Georgian ... Read more...
BELFAST is the capital of Northern Ireland and its largest city by some way. More than a third of the province's population live within the Belfast conurbation and, consequently, there's a ... Read more...
South and west of Gloucester, the distinctive burr that is typical of West Country speech is immediately audible in BRISTOL . Alongside it, however, you will also hear the more strident tones of fast ... Read more...
Once the empire's second city, LIVERPOOL spent too many of the twentieth-century postwar years struggling against adversity. Things are looking up at last, as economic and social regeneration ... Read more...