Hever in Kent was in Tier One before the country was plunged into lockdown. But despite having under three cases in the last week, it will re-emerge in Tier Three. Duncan Leslie, chief executive of Hever Castle (above), Anne Boleyn’s childhood home, said the decision was particularly ‘galling’ when infection rates are higher in neighbouring villages … Read more
An Inspector calls… at Billesley Manor Hotel near Stratford-upon-Avon and says the Bard would have liked the cosy dining room – but he doubts the £5.6m refurb included his bedroom Shakespeare is said to have written As You Like It in what is now the hotel’s As You Like It lounge The Inspector says the … Read more
How do you visit historic Stratford-upon-Avon without feeling like you’re on a school trip? Check-in at the town’s ‘time tunnel’ 16th-century Hotel Indigo for starters… Formerly one of Stratford’s oldest pubs, the Falcon Inn, the 93-room boutique hotel opened last year It has walls lined with wooden panels salvaged from Shakespeare’s final home across the … Read more
Emotional moment pensioner hugs her grandson, 29, for the first time in months using £70 ‘cuddle curtain’ he invented using shower guard and plastic sleeves Antony Cauvin, of Stratford-upon-Avon, hadn’t hugged gran in over two months His invention is a see-through shower curtain fitted with four long safety sleeves While hugging, his gran gave a … Read more