Give Wally a wide berth! Tourists are told to avoid famous walrus off the Isles of Scilly because the heatwave is making him tetchy Wally the walrus has caused thousands of pounds of damage boarding boats He arrived on the Isles of Scilly last month and temperatures have since risen The Cornwall Seal Group Research … Read more
Mail bosses will use drones to deliver PPE and Covid testing kits to the Isles of Scilly in pilot scheme that could be rolled out across Britain Royal Mail to start trialling using drones to deliver equipment such as Covid tests If successful the technology could be used to access remote areas across Britain Project … Read more
Mail bosses will use drones to deliver PPE and Covid testing kits to the Isles of Scilly in pilot scheme that could be rolled out across Britain Royal Mail to start trialling using drones to deliver equipment such as Covid tests If successful the technology could be used to access remote areas across Britain Project … Read more
Away from the Algarve, out in the Atlantic, the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira are big on nature and small on crowds. The summits of huge underwater islands, they offer very different experiences if you’re a fan of the great outdoors. There is a rare wild beauty on the Azores, with black-sand beaches on … Read more
London is still lagging behind in the vaccine rollout with some boroughs having inoculated a third fewer people than parts of Staffordshire, where the crucial campaign appears to be roaring ahead. NHS England figures show 79 per cent of over-55s in the country had at least one dose of the vaccine by March 14 — the … Read more
London is still lagging behind in the vaccine rollout with some boroughs having vaccinated a third fewer people than parts of Staffordshire, where the crucial campaign appears to be roaring ahead. NHS England figures show 79 per cent of over-55s in the country had at least one dose of the vaccine by March 14 — the … Read more
Not a single coronavirus case has been reported on the Isles of Scilly during the UK’s second wave and nobody has ever died of Covid there, official records show. The virus-free island off the coast of Cornwall has been kept under the same lockdown rules as the rest of England during that time, but official … Read more
Not a single coronavirus case has been reported on the Isles of Scilly during the UK’s second wave and nobody has ever died of Covid there, official records show. The virus-free island off the coast of Cornwall has been kept under the same lockdown rules as the rest of England during that time, but official … Read more
Don’t do anything Scilly! Locals in the only part of England still under Tier 1 beg tourists NOT to travel to the islands – and say they can’t make the most of their freedoms because there’s not much to do in winter anyway! The Isles of Scilly are the only part of England in Tier … Read more
No mobile phones – and yet life went on. These images show towns and cities in the UK and Ireland between 1954 and 1966 – and they are truly fascinating. The pictures were snapped by photographer Allan Hailstone, originally from Coventry, who travelled extensively across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, meticulously documenting his trips. His … Read more