Stamford is an up and coming town with a sense of history.
The 1950s historian WG Hoskins wrote: “If there is a more beautiful town in the whole of England then I am yet to see it”
📍Pershore, Worcestershire
🏡Average house price: £232,428
⛪️Pershore is famed for its Georgian architecture and medieval abbey
“The typical buyers are Cotswoldians looking to downsize or upsize, and Birmingham and London commuters"
📍Ludlow, Shropshire
🏡Average house price: £245,974
Ludlow was a Norman town that began with the castle built in 1086 to defend the Welsh border.
🏰The town is based around the market square, church and castle with Georgian townhouses lining the wide medieval streets
📍Totnes, Devon
🏡Average house price: £296,583
🛍️Totnes has a vibrant community, with a lot of independent shops along the high street
“This is the dream and I pinch myself every time we walk down to the creek"
📍Liphook, East Hampshire
🏡Average house price: £414,100
🛤️Liphook offers good private and state schools and is commutable to London
It offers pubs and restaurants, a new art-house cinema and an old post office which has been turned into an architect’s studio
📍Pittenweem, Fife
🏡 Average house price: £181,824
Pittenweem has an arts-led high street and boasts Victorian fishermen’s cottages.
🎣The local market is renowned for its shellfish, with the wider area catering for nature-lovers as you can spy puffins up the coastline
📍Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex
🏡Average house price: £349,330
🏖️Shoreham-by-Sea is known for its modern beach villas.
The centre of Shoreham is an ancient fishing village of narrow streets flanked with flint-clad cottages. A fleet of vibrant houseboats line the River Adur
📍Porthcawl, South Glamorgan
🏡Average house price: £232,374
⛳️ Porthcawl has the surfing beach of Rest Bay and the Royal Porthcawl golf course. The Links is the conversion of a Grade II building into 71 apartments.
🚉The town is less than 30 minutes from Cardiff
📍Chipping Campden, Oxfordshire
🏡Average house price: £542,771
🥘Chipping Campden has good schools, is home to popular restaurant Michael’s Mediterranean and offers superfast broadband.
“The views are incredible and on a clear day you can see right across the Cotswolds"
📍Great Massingham, Norfolk
🏡Average house price: £241,275
🏞️Great Massingham has won many EDP Pride in Norfolk gongs and is built around a large green with several ponds.
Massingham Stores and the Cartshed Tearoom delivered goods to locals during lockdown
📍Stock, Essex
🏡Average house price: £861,541
🏏Stock has four quaint pubs including the Hoop and the Bear Inn, a village store, a small primary school, a cricket green, vineyard and a windmill.
It is six miles from Chelmsford and less than three from Billericay station
📍Amersham, Buckinghamshire
🏡Average house price: £694,683
🏞️Amersham is near the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and is on the Metropolitan Line.
👩🍳It has good grammar schools and a Michelin-starred restaurant
📍Beeston, Nottinghamshire
🏡Average house price: £345,942
🚋Beeston has a tram service, new bus station and leisure centre. It’s 3 miles from the city centre and south of the University of Nottingham campus.
“There are some lovely roads of Victorian and Edwardian houses"
📍Maidenhead, Berkshire
🏡Average house price: £502,628
Maidenhead is on the Thames and in touching distance of the Chilterns.
🚉 When Crossrail arrives the service will take 19 minutes to Paddington.
“The draw is countryside living and good schools"
📍Colney Heath, Hertfordshire
🏡Average house price: £516,707
Colney Heath offers the amenities of a city within touching distance of the Hertfordshire countryside.
🌳“Heartwood Forest on the outskirts of St Albans is a little oasis loved by the local community"
📍Stockbridge, Hampshire
🏡Average house price: £562,158
Nestled between Salisbury and the south coast, this small town has speciality food stores, gourmet delis and boutiques.
🍖“People come from miles around to visit one of the oldest butchers in the area”
📍Dorking, Surrey
🏡Average house price: £451,898
Nestled in the Surrey Hills, Dorking is a cheaper option than nearby Reigate.
🚲It is in the heart of cycling country with the chalk downs perfect for family rides
📍Malton, North Yorkshire
🏡Average house price: £238,089
🍽️Malton is an up and coming town with fantastic food.
40,000 people attended the annual Malton Food Lovers’ Festival in 2019
📍Frome, Somerset
🏡Average house price: £299,942
Frome is one of the “coolest” destinations for people making the move out of London or Bristol.
🌳There is a range of property types from terraced cottages to detached Georgian townhouses and large Victorian villas
📍Mobberley, Cheshire
🏡Average house price: £342,484
💸Mobberley and presents more value for money than Cheshire’s “designer lifestyle” hotspots
The Mobberley scene is pubs and farm shops with the Waugh Brow Farm Shop selling local produce
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Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
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✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.