Where the experts holiday: Rosa Park

Rosa Park – editor of quarterly food/travel magazine Cereal – on Cornwall, Copenhagen and the Californian coastal town of Santa Barbara

The English seaside

Photographer Peter Williams celebrates the peculiar eccentricities and quintessential charms – from helter-skelters to lighthouses, pirates, palmists and Punch and Judy – of this cherished and rapidly changing English landscape

Consumer Direct (formally the National Consumer Council)

From the website:

“Consumer Direct is the government-funded telephone and online service offering information and advice on consumer issues. Consumer Direct is funded by the Office of Fair Trading and delivered in partnership with Local Authority Trading Standards Services.”

What’s hot

Whether you’re staycation-ing or vacationing, CD Traveller tells you what’s happening in the travel world

The sunday strut

Stuck for something to do on the sunday in between the Olympic and Paralympic Games? Why not strut your stuff with Millie Mackintosh of Made in Chelsea fame, in aid of the Prince’s Trust?

Flying on waste cooking oil

A little while go Thomson flew one engine on one flight on one plane on a mixture of Jet A1 fuel and waste cooking oil as opposed to normal aviation fuel. It was a test to see the effect but you would have thought from the reactions that they had almost single-handedly caused the starvation of millions by using a resource that stopped food crops being grown.

Rugby World Cup: three years to go

A brief history of rugby in England