Travel and Environment

Vicar Lane in central Leeds will reopen to bus traffic going both ways on Sunday 21 February, improving reliability and journey times by removing a bottleneck on The Headrow at New Briggate. The reopening marks the first time buses will have travelled northbound on Vicar Lane since the road was

Author: Philippa Kaye. Walking and words, two passions of mine. Last week I was out walking discovering, as many of us now have, our own back yard, finding walks and history and stories right on our doorstep that we previously never knew existed. Given the amount of rain and snow

By Philippa J Kaye, travel expert, and avid explorer. Well, it’s hard to know where to start this year when writing about travel. I’ve had various thoughts. Do we keep it closer to home, discovering (more) of what’s in our backyard, in which case, how fortunate we

By Philippa Kaye "Why don’t you go to The Piece Hall?" Where? "The Piece Hall?" Why? "It’s a Grade 1 listed building and has got lots of shops" It didn’t do it for me. I didn’t go. I didn’t

TUI UK has launched winter 2021 and 2022 holidays from Doncaster Sheffield and is set to put summer 2022 holidays on sale from 5th November, including thousands of free kids’ places, low deposits from £75 per person and £0 deposit on direct debit bookings made online on offer. This comes

Author: Philippa Kaye We tend not to think of Yorkshire as having much wildlife, other far flung destinations have secured the monopoly on that. Africa is an obvious choice, famous for the Big 5, lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant and cape buffalo, and of course there are also zebra and giraffe;

This time last year, we hated running. Then the pandemic hit, and lockdown changed outdoor activities into a luxury with many people turning to jogging during the crisis, just to be outside. On 13 October, the UK Government announced that the UK would be placed into a set of local