IF YOU’RE looking for a city break destination in the UK, you might want to consider a weekend in Birmingham. Holidaymakers always seem to gloss over my hometown in favour of other UK haunts ...
I WAS a fan of Jane Austen long before Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s Pride And Prejudice. I’d read all her novels and fancied finding a Mr Darcy of my own — the bigger his stately ...