Christmas gifts for a taste of hotel heaven at home from Connaught martini glasses to dinner hampers

Every week our Holiday Hero Neil Simpson takes an in-depth look at a brilliant holiday topic, doing all the legwork so you don’t have to. This week: Christmas gifts from hotels we’ve missed in 2020. Country house hotels don’t come much prettier than celebrity favourite The Newt In Somerset. The honey-coloured stone walls of the … Read more

The £1,000 Christmas hampers from John Lewis and M&S

In Marks and Spencer’s hamper, customers can expect:  Clementine gin liqueur light globe gin (70cl) (Alcohol Content- 20%) Delacourt Champagne Brut (75cl) x 2 (Alcohol Content- 12.5%) Delacourt Vintage Champagne (75cl) x 2 (Alcohol Content- 12.5%) Christmas dry gin (50cl) (Alcohol Content- 39%) Le Vieux Gres Chateauneuf- du- Pape (75cl) (Alcohol Content- 14.5%) Orange and … Read more

A ‘wasted decade’ of inactivity hampers climate progress, report warns

A ‘wasted decade’ of inactivity and slow political progress mean nations must now do four times as much work to meet climate change targets, a new study claims. Nations must quadruple their efforts, or do the same in one-third of the time, to comply with the climate pact they made as part of the Paris … Read more