Annie McNamee

This bustling coastal city is absolutely steeped in history, maritime heritage, and of course, there's loads to see. It’s roots date back as far as the Stone Age, and its first ever museum (the Tudor House) remains a top attraction, with gorgeous gardens and guided tours on offer.  There’s plenty of modern-day action too, with a treasured football team, The Saints, and their fans bringing life to the city on match day. Southampton is also only a 20-minute drive away from the New Forest, or a ferry-ride away from the Isle of Wight, there's plenty going on that makes this city worth a visit. Check out our list of top picks for all the best things to do in Southampton.  RECOMMENDED:  🚆The best day trips from London⛰️ The best things to in the New Forest🏖️ The best seaside towns in the UK💕 The best things to do in the UK Annie McNamee is a writer at Time Out UK. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

Television has been around for 70 years, but only in the last two decades has it earned true respect as an artistic medium. Up to that point, elitists referred to TV as ‘the idiot box’ or ‘the boob tube,’ and if you worked in it, you were either a hack or an upstart hoping to make the leap into the more dignified world of movies. Was its poor reputation deserved? Sure, there were blips of brilliance between The Ed Sullivan Show and The Sopranos, but by and large, the garbage outweighed the gold. Maybe it’s unfair, but the fact that it was all being beamed directly into our living rooms made the dreck more noticeable.  That’s all changed. Television has nudged film out from the center of popular culture, to the point that some of cinema’s truest believers – Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh – are making movies specifically for the small screen. The shift may have started with HBO and The Sopranos, but the advent of streaming has made it so that hundreds of new shows are now continually flipping the script every few years, if not months. But that doesn’t mean everything before 1999 is pure dross. While this list is dominated by 21st century programs, there are hundreds of shows that deserve credit for pushing TV forward into its current golden age, and chiseling them down to a neat top 100 is difficult. So we elected to leave off talk shows, variety shows and sketch comedy, focusing on scripted, episodic dramas, comedies and miniseries. Even then, it proved to b

This is about the time when the January blues start to hit pretty hard. It’s dark at 4pm, you’ve got no money left after Christmas and winter feels like it’s dragging on forever. But we’re here to tell you that things are looking up, because 2025 is going to be a corker of a year for the UK.  It turns out that 2025 is going to be a bit of a big one, with a number of landmark occasions being celebrated across Britain. There’s Jane Austen’s 250th birthday in Southampton, as well as the art-packed Folkestone Triennial, a celebration of 200 years of the British railway in York and Bradford’s 2025 City of Culture festivities. Then, there are up-and-coming foodie towns in Cornwall, music scenes that are popping off in Cardiff and Belfast, and the reopening of grand cultural insitutions like the Tate Liverpool.  If there’s ever been a good time to book a trip, it’s now (it might even help keep some SAD at bay). There is so much fantastic stuff happening across the country this year, so read our list curated by local experts of the best places to visit in the UK in 2025, and get stuck in.  RECOMMENDED: 🇬🇧 The 25 best new things to do in the UK in 2025📍The 12 most underrated city breaks in the UK 🏨 The UK’s 13 best new hotels opening in 2025👨‍👩‍👧 6 amazing places to stay with Kids in the UK

If people make Glasgow, music is what fuels it. The city's music scene was thriving long before the rest of it had caught up, with places like the Barrowlands and the Old Fruit Market offering locals good, cheap live music when general attitudes of Glasgow were, let's just say, less than favourable.  But those days are behind us, and Scotland's biggest city is now known across the UK for its vibrant cultural heritage, nightlife, and, of course, its music scene. Whether you're looking for an arena of people to scream along your favourite songs with, or a small makeshift stage at the back of a bar to find your new favourite band, Glasgow's got you sorted. Fair warning though: crowds here are famously rowdy. They're a lot of fun, but don't be surprised if you end up beer-soaked. Oh, and brush up on our local chants. You don't want to be the only person not shouting along with 'here we, here we, here we f'ing go!'. 

History has it that Pollokshaws Road was once home to a merry band of Flemish weavers – known as the ‘Queer Folk’ – who were brought over to work in the city during the 19th century by local landowners. These days it’s still a thriving creative hub, threading down Glasgow’s Southside and linking up the districts of Govanhill, Strathbungo and Shawlands. Rows of sandstone tenements loom over traffic separated by wide pavements, behind which stand ornate townhouses designed by Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson. There’s a juicy chunk of Pollokshaws Road where bars, cafés and boutiques jostle for space; pick it up from Allison Street and wander down past Queen’s Park. Since it’s a largely residential area, there’s a distinct feel of community – something that’s enhanced by the indie businesses that have popped up over the past few years. In particular it’s a brunch haven, with queues leaking out of living-room-sized cafés come rain or shine. You can also expect to find organic fruit and veg at Stalks & Stems, a fresh produce emporium with a florist next door, and (almost) a different coffee shop for every day of the week. It’s not all hipster territory, though. Punters tired of mustachioed baristas and bar staff will be cheered by the decent selection of old man pubs complete with smoked-glass windows. Recommended: Full guide to the best things to do in Glasgow

How easily could you be persuaded to shave off an eyebrow, or take a shot for every stair you climbed? Perhaps you’d feel more compelled if you were half a bottle of ‘Chicken Wine’ deep, 18, and surrounded by new friends that you were trying to impress? If you attended university in the UK you might have an uncomfortable feeling of deja-vu, perhaps being whisked back to the time you were ‘hazed’ as a first year student. If you didn’t, you’ve likely heard the rumours about former prime ministers getting it on with pigs, or rugby teams shoving carrots in places vegetables should never go. Hazing, or ‘initiation’ as it more commonly goes by this side of the Atlantic, is a practice which usually consists of ritualistically embarrassing rookie members of a given group in order for them to prove themselves. It’s also nothing new. There’s evidence of rowdy schoolboys dating as far back as 420 BCE when Plato recounted ‘practical jokes played by unruly young men’ which left both spectators and haze-ees injured. Somehow, this bizarre custom has survived the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, the birth of Jesus Christ, several international plagues and found a home for itself in the modern age on university campuses. But for the past decade or so, hazing’s millenia-long reign has been threatened by a generation who supposedly care more about their physical and mental health than they do about banter and ritual humiliation. Today, hazing has met its match: Generation Z. So what do these

In 2024, what exactly makes a neighbourhood cool? Craft breweries, natty wine bars and street art are well and good, but the world’s best, most exciting and downright fun neighbourhoods are much more than identikit ‘hipster hubs’. They’re places that reflect the very best of their cities – its culture, community spirit, nightlife, food and drink – all condensed in one vibey, walkable district. To create our annual ranking, we went straight to the experts – our global team of on-the-ground writers and editors – and asked them what the coolest neighbourhood in their city is right now, and why. Then we narrowed down the selection and ranked the list using the insight and expertise of Time Out’s global editors, who vetted each neighbourhood against criteria including food, drink, arts, culture, street life, community and one-of-a-kind local flavour. The result? A list that celebrates the most unique and exciting pockets of our cities – and all their quirks. Yes, you’ll find some of those international hallmarks of ‘cool’. But in every neighbourhood on this list there’s something you won’t find anywhere else. Ever been to a photography museum that moonlights as a jazz club? Or a brewery with a library of Russian literature? How about a festival dedicated to fluff? When communities fiercely support and rally around their local businesses, even the most eccentric ideas can become a reality. And that, in our eyes, is what makes a neighbourhood truly cool. From formerly overlooked sub

You might never want to leave Edinburgh, and we get it. The Scottish capital is loved the world over for its culture, restaurants and Fringe Festival (to name a few). But if you limit your time in Scotland to just Edinburgh, trust us, you’re missing out.  Scotland is full of gems, but the best part is a whole lot of them can be reached by train or car in just one day – with enough time left to get back in time for dinner. From hilly hikes to wide-open beaches and from pretty towns to full-blown city breaks, these day trips from Edinburgh are not to be missed. Here are our favourites.  RECOMMENDED:🌤️ The best things to do in Edinburgh 🎨 The best art galleries in Edinburgh🏰 The best attractions in Edinburgh🏘️ The best Airbnbs in Edinburgh This guide was updated by Edinburgh-based Arusa Quereshi, and Time Out editors. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content. For more information, see our affiliate guidelines. 

What words come to mind when we mention the Olympics? Prestige? Excellence? Medals? Or is it: ‘Grom’?  The Olympic games have been around for nearly three millennia. As the entire planet tunes in to watch as the top sports people compete for those coveted gold medals, there’s some stuff you’ll probably want to get your head around to make the most of your viewing experience: jargon for you normies to weave into your vocab that will have you sounding like proper Olympic pros in no time.  RECOMMENDED:How to watch the Paris 2024 Olympics in the UK for freeHere’s the full schedule and timings for the Summer Games We’ve done some digging and unearthed some 100 percent real words and phrases that will almost certainly be used by professional Olympians and commentators across the next few weeks. What’s more, there’s something inherently funny about words which sound out of place to the average Joe. There’s nothing worth giggling about hearing the word ‘jaeger’ at a bar (especially as it’s usually followed by a friend trying to convince you to neck a shot of sweet battery acid and gone-off liquorice), but watching it earnestly come out of the mouth of a world-class gymnast? Now that’s entertainment. So what are you waiting for? Brush up on your sporty lingo and drop these into convo next time you’re watching the Games to impress your mates. Skateboarding  ‘Goofy stance’: Refers to when a skateboarder has their left foot on the back of the board. Also used in surfing and snowboarding

You remember the days. Assuring your friend that she definitely looks like her older cousin’s co-worker, especially with a ponytail in. Hovering awkwardly around the corner from the off-license as your one 18-year-old pal does God’s work for the rest of you. The pit in your tummy as you recite a fake birthday to the bouncer of a sticky-floored nightclub – remembering your star sign, memorising your imaginary postcode – and the elated relief when he lets you in with a raised eyebrow and a reluctant nod. Finding increasingly inventive ways to get around age-restrictions was half the fun of being 17, but today’s teens seem to be going off going out altogether. ‘You definitely see fake IDs less than you used to,’ says one bouncer at a popular student nightclub in Bristol. When he started working at the venue a decade ago, he’d encounter a load of fakes on any given night – but not so much anymore. ‘The worst one I ever saw had the back on upside down,’ he says. ‘The ones we do see are getting a lot better and it can be harder to catch them. But they’re definitely rarer now.’ Something has certainly shifted. A few weeks ago, as I walked through the Triangle, Bristol’s premier hotspot for stumbling freshers and lovers of three for two Jägerbombs, I noticed that the local Sainsbury’s was busier than all of the clubs combined. Two years ago, dancefloors would’ve been filling up at 11pm on a Monday. This wasn’t a fluke: since that night, two of the clubs in question have closed their

For all of the stick we give the UK – the grey skies, the pigeons, the Greggs sausage roll packets littering the pavements – it’s actually a pretty gorgeous country. In London alone, you can be goggling over the Barbican’s brutalist beauty one moment, the next, you might be basking in the tranquility of Hampstead Ponds. Add the turquoise coasts of Cornwall, the rugged mountains of Snowdonia and the fairytale wonder of Scotland’s highlands and islands to the mix, and you’ve got a country which is as good looking as they come.  When we set about curating this list of the most beautiful places in the UK, we called on our network of expert travel writers. These guys have have personally experienced the pinch-me moment of seeing every place on this list IRL – so we can guarantee you there is no catfishing going on here. Of course, you’ll find the usual suspects – you can’t argue with the magic of the Isle of Skye, after all – but you’ll also find some more surprising beauty spots to add to your travel bucket list. RECOMMENDED:🚂 The UK’s most beautiful train stations🇬🇧 The best things to do in the UK🏝 The most beautiful places in the world🏠 The best Airbnbs in the UK Chiara Wilkinson is Time Out’s UK features editor, based in London. At Time Out, all of our travel guides are written by local writers who know their cities inside out. For more about how we curate, see our editorial guidelines. This guide includes affiliate links, which have no influence on our editorial content

Ever wanted to know what life as student is really like in 2023? We asked 20-year-old student-turned-amateur-anthropologist Annie to tell us her observations about the people, parties and juiciest secrets of the UK’s unis. Here’s her verdict. Universities. National institutions. Places of learning and research, incubators of intellect. Unfortunately, also the land of the ‘student’. Student is a varied species which feeds mainly on pasta and rice. British students can often be found at the nearest Wetherspoons, getting drunk on vanilla flavoured vodka because the regular one is 30p more expensive. They tend to be slightly nocturnal and the males are known for going to extraordinary lengths to attract mates that they will subsequently ‘leave on read’.   Subtypes of ‘student’ vary based on location and each British uni comes with its own set of defining characteristics. So, buckle up: this is an entirely imaginary but 100 percent accurate investigation into the private lives of students in the wild, in their most natural habitat – on what they like to call, ‘a night out’.  Newcastle Image: Genie Espinosa We start in Newcastle and encounter Georgia moments after arriving at Market Shaker, an underground bar. She promptly begins chatting about the time she almost jumped into the Tyne ‘just for laughs’, which seems common for the ‘Geordie’ student species. Other notable characteristics appear to include: studying Geography, being obsessed with the North/South divide, Nike Air Max

You’ve been here before. Almost.  With a clientele which would be perfect for a Love Island spin-off featuring exclusively people with ‘entrepreneur’ in their bios and a healthy amount of exposed pipework, The Counter is what those in the know would probably call ‘trendy’. Its dim lights, small plate selection, and strategically chipped brick feature wall put it on the verge of parodically hip, but a glance at its menu and a quick chat with any member of its team reveal it to be much more down to Earth than some of its equally Instagrammable peers. If you close your eyes you can almost feel the Istanbuli breeze flowing through your hair The sense of deja-vu you feel may not be coming solely from its open-plan bar though. Chef Kemal Demirasal’s first UK venture, opened up two years ago in Notting Hill to much success. Originally from Turkey, he’s taken much of the charm of the original joint (as well as its most popular recipes and excellent cocktails) and transported it to Kingly Street – and combined it with a series of fresh ideas and a lot of seafood. Fresh is definitely the operative word. The cocktails are infused with real fruit. The tomatoes have been imported from Turkey. There’s sort-of-caviar sprinkled on avocado-topped fish. If you close your eyes and just bite, you can almost feel the Istanbuli breeze flowing through your hair. A series of enthusiastic staff members recommended a variety of dishes to us. Some, like the tomato salad or prawns, were familiar classi

Enjoy an evening of modern classical music composed by Black artists whose work did not get the spotlight that it deserved in its time at this Southbank Centre concert. The night will involve three different pieces from three different composers, performed by up and coming American violinist Randall Goosby, who made his debut with the Jacksonville Symphony orchestra at just nine, and award-winning Chinese pianist Zhu Wang. 

When most of us are planning a trip, we look for hotels which offer good value. Some, however, look for hotels which offer butler services, spa access, and five star meals. For that lucky few, La Liste is the holy grail. La Liste makes it its business to know – and rate – all the most exclusive, high-end restaurants and hotels across the world. It has a rigorous five step method for creating their rankings which begins with ‘aggregating’ reviews from thousands of guide books, travel publications, and websites (like Time Out!). Step two is ‘standardisation’, which means converting each review into a number between 1-100, using scales specific to each book or material. Then, in the third stage, thousands of experts are asked their opinions on the materials so that each can get an average ‘trustworthiness rating’. Next, averages are calculated using both the trustworthiness of each source and the average grade given to each hotel, before the final step which is integrating customer reviews. Then, voila! You have a foolproof, standardised grading system and each hotel is given a rating out of 100. That may all sound very complex, but all we need to do is look at the numbers and see which are the biggest. Of the 1000 best hotels in the world, 96, nearly 10 percent, were in the UK, which means we are really excelling when it comes to providing high quality hotel stays. The joint-top UK entries were the Connaught and the Savoy, two of London’s most famously bougie stays. Both receiv

Not too long ago, we revealed that Slough was the most miserable place to live in the UK, according to research from Rightmove. While it’s helpful to know where you should be avoiding if you’re looking to relocate soon, it doesn’t give you any sort of indication as to where you should go. That’s where the data investigations team at Reach is here to help. In order to figure out the best places to move to in England, the Reach team split the country into just shy of 300 sections. Then, they analysed house prices, crime levels, quality of schools, access to and quality of NHS care, and amenities like green spaces, in each of them, and did a whole load of number-crunching in order to determine where in the country, statistically speaking, is the best place to live. The findings are not what you might expect – only one London borough even cracks the top 100. So where should you be packing up and moving to? Apparently, the Forest of Dean, a very green district in Gloucester, is the best place to go. Its greatest asset is its NHS, with nearly 70 percent of patients seen for treatment within 18 months of referral. It also has pretty low crime rates, loads of parks and play areas, and house prices aren’t too expensive. The average home will set you back just shy of £300,000, but that’s pretty standard in the south of England. In second place was North Yorkshire, largely due to its excellent amenities. It’s well served by railway stations, post offices, pubs, play areas, and parks. Tr

If you’re planning a staycation in the UK, you’ve probably been recommended the same few places loads of times. For a city break try London, if you fancy a beach head to Cornwall, and if you want a bit of both with some history mixed in, Edinburgh awaits. Sometimes, however, you want something a bit different. For that, you have to look beyond the guidebooks and travel offices and trust the opinions of random strangers on the internet. There’s no better place to find people with in-depth, weirdly specific knowledge than on Reddit. If you’re not familiar with how it works, it’s basically a container of lots of smaller forums and discussion boards, full of people asking questions and getting responses from other members of their community. Recently, one user asked the good people of r/uktravel what the most ‘surprisingly good’ destinations in the country are, and the responses did not disappoint. The original poster got the conversation going with their suggestion: Hull. They praised its ‘beautiful old town’, its ‘great museums’, and mentioned the fact that it’s in a prime position for day trips to Leeds, Beverley, Scarborough, and Bridlington. Overall, the poster declared the Yorkshire town a ‘great city with an undeserved reputation’. The top response, aka the comment with the most ‘upvotes’, was Halifax. Although you might think that this town’s most notable feature is its proximity to bigger cities like Leeds and Manchester, this user said that Piece Hall, the area’s bigges

The Eden Project opened back in 2001 with a mission to ‘[celebrate] plants and the natural world’ and to ‘regenerate damaged landscapes’. Still going strong almost 25 years later, those goals are being achieved, especially the latter. A baobab tree, which is native to Africa, has been growing in the Eden Project’s Rainforest Biome for more than two decades. Now, for the first time ever in the UK, it’s begun to flower, which means it could be about to produce a rare ‘superfruit’. RECOMMENDED: The northern Eden Project is expected to open by 2028.  The baobab, known by some as the ‘Tree of Life’, and to science as ‘Adansonia digitata’, can live for more than two millennia – carbon dating revealed the oldest known specimen to be 2100 years old at time of death. And that’s not where its superpowers end. The baobab fruit that it grows contains three times as much calcium as a glass of milk, three times the vitamin C of an orange, and is half fibre. Next time you’ve got a sore stomach, you know what to reach for. In fact, the only issue with this tree is that it’s just too good of a resource. The trunk is so full of water that elephants in the wild will sometimes tear these trees down for hydration, and every single part of the plant, from the bark to the leaves, is packed full of vitamins and minerals that people and animals have a tendency to over-harvest it, leaving it under threat of becoming endangered. There are eight species strains of this three, and six of them are current

There are just shy of 50,000 pubs in the UK, but only one can be the best. Up and down the country, there are loads of places that could be deserving of that title, but each year it’s up to the National Pub & Bar awards to determine exactly what the nation’s best boozer is. For British pub owners, Tuesday June 24 was the biggest day of the year, because it was the date of the 2025 National Pub & Bar awards ceremony. Nominees were shortlisted back in April, when 256 brewers – a step up from last year’s 94 – were named as some of the best in their counties. Now after an agonising two month wait, a winner has come out on top of them all in what the awards are calling a ‘mammoth achievement’. After all that suspense, The Bull in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, came home with the trophy. The Bull reopened in 2023 under new ownership and, according to the judges, has since ‘cemented its reputation as a leading countryside pub’.  It was commended for its blending of ‘quintessential qualities with the finesse and flawless service of a contemporary operation’, as well as its ‘stripped-back design, brilliant front-of-house team and exceptional food’. Sounds like pretty much everything you need for a quality evening out.  The pub’s head of food, Sally Abé, said that the staff are ‘all over the moon’. She also noted how important the awards are for bringing attention to independently owned pubs and bars, particularly when so many are struggling to keep the lights on. She said: ‘Over the last few

Last year was a huge year for sports fans. We had the Olympics and the Euros all in the span of a couple of months, but this year the summer slate is a little more barren, so those of you craving a proper, professional sporting tournament will be glad to know that Wimbledon is mere days away. The world’s oldest tennis grand slam is back for another year in SW19. Expect tense match points, unexpected underdog victories, and some celeb sightings in the crowd. On the men’s side, it is expected that Carlos Alcatraz and Jannik Sinner will be the two names to follow at the tournament. Last time the two went face to face, Alcatraz won the French Open, so there’s a lot at stake for both young players. As far as the women’s odds go, Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff are the bookies favourites. With that said, you never know what’s going to happen once they actually get courtside. Much like Glastonbury, which you can watch this weekend while you wait for the tennis to begin, getting tickets to Wimbledon is pot luck, but if the odds weren’t in your favour this year, there’s no need to fret. Wimbledon is all broadcast on TV and radio so you don’t miss a moment.Here’s exactly how to watch Wimbledon 2025 from the comfort of your sofa. RECOMMENDED: Wimbledon tennis screenings in London.  When is Wimbledon this year? Wimbledon stretches over a couple of weeks, beginning next Monday – June 30. Then after fourteen intensive days of singles, doubles, trophies, and defeats, the championship will co

Living in a huge metropolitan city like London, there’s always someone looking at you. Usually it’s just one of the nine million other people who live in this city, but sometimes, it’s Big Brother. It’s estimated that there are nearly 130,000 public CCTV cameras across the capital kitted out and ready to observe, but some places are more populated by them than others. Tech research company Comparitech have been crunching the numbers, and they’ve discovered which borough in London has the most surveillance cameras. But first, where does the Big Smoke rank globally? It turns out that we are the 12th most watched city in the world, with Hyderabad in India taking the crown (outside of China). London also has the third most cameras of any European city per person, beaten only by Moscow and St Petersburg. But where actually are these cameras? Well, you’re most likely to be being surveilled in the City of London, where there are just over 75 cameras per 1000 people. This is a significant amount more than the average across Greater London, where there’s only 13 for every 1000 people. Because the City is such a densely packed part of the capital – famously known as ‘the Square Mile’ precisely because of its small area – there’s a much higher concentration of cameras dotted around this borough than any other. This is likely in part because, being home to St Paul’s Cathedral, the Bank of England, and many other important buildings, the City has got a lot of goods to guard, and a lot of

Have you ever had a day so bad you get a visceral urge to retreat to a fortress on an island and become the sort of recluse they write gothic novels about? We’ve all been there, but usually there’s nothing we can do to make that dream a reality. Today, that changes for one lucky person – as long as you have £5.5 million to spare. A Scottish island called Shuna is on sale for the first time in nearly a century, after the Gully family, who have owned it since the 1940s, have decided to sell up. Jim Gully, whose grandfather purchased Shuna in the immediate aftermath of the second world war as an escape, told the BBC that he had an ‘idyllic childhood’ growing up there. He added: ‘It's been a huge part for all of our lives and definitely sad that all of that is coming to an end, but tinged with relief for my father.’ (His dad helps manage Shuna at the moment.) Just off the west coast of Scotland, Shuna, near Oban, is a near three hour drive from Glasgow, the nearest major city, so it’s perfect for anyone wanting to really escape to the countryside. As if 1,110-acres of gorgeous island scenery wasn’t enough, purchasing Shuna also comes with an old castle which fell into disrepair in the 1980s. However, that’s nothing that a little TLC and a vision can’t fix. You’ll also become landlord to hundreds of sheep, deer, rare birds, and more, so even if you’re there alone, you have plenty of animals to keep you company. All of this for only £5.5 million. That is quite a lot of money, but y

How did you find last week’s heatwave? Sweaty? Exhausting? Or maybe you enjoyed the perfect pub-garden weather and got a lovely tan. Whatever your thoughts, you’ll need to crack out the suncream once again and prepare as another heatwave – defined by the Met Office as three consecutive days of high temperatures – is headed our way. In some parts of eastern and south-eastern England, particularly around London and the home counties, temperatures are expected to reach the low thirties once again early next week. The warmer weather will likely creep in over the next couple of days and peak at some point between Sunday and Tuesday, depending on exactly where in the country you are. At its hottest, the mercury could hit 33C without much cloud cover to filter out the rays. There’s even a chance that Monday could be the hottest day of the year so far. The south west, north, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland will avoid the worst of the heat, and can expect highs of 20-25C. Along with this, more thunderstorms are to be expected as the humidity turns into heavy showers along the east coast into the night. Long range forecasts from the Met Office, although not always completely reliable, reckon that we will continue to see very changeable weather until the end of July, so we could be in for a very mixed bag of a summer. Current long range predictions are predicting the ‘wettest and windiest conditions [are] most likely towards the northwest’ with ‘southern and eastern areas are mos

There is only one reason to go to an airport: to catch a flight. That’s why the last thing you want to hear when you’re already through security and already eating your overpriced toastie, is that your flight is cancelled. As it turns out, some airports are worse than others when it comes to making sure that your journey goes ahead. Airadvisor, a consumer advice website, has been analysing the data around UK flight cancellations, and it’s discovered which airport in the UK is officially the least reliable. What’s surprising is that it’s not Heathrow or Gatwick – in fact, it’s a fairly small terminal by comparison. For it’s study, Airadvisor looked at departure data from the 20 busiest airports across the UK since 2023, and found that the worst for cancellations is officially… Southampton! When you’re heading out from the southern hub, there’s a 3.4 percent chance that you’ll fall victim to a cancelled flight. That may not sound like a lot, but when you consider that the national average was 1.5 percent, it starts to look a little rough. According to Airadvisor, despite Southampton only seeing 853,000 through its gates per year – very little compared to the millions landing and departing at Gatwick or Heathrow – it has been struggling for a while with ‘persistent staffing issues and a limited infrastructure, which can be exacerbated during busy travel periods’. Just tailing Southampton was Belfast City airport, also known as George Best airport, with a cancellation rate of 3.3

If you ever had any doubt about just how popular country music is in the UK right now, all you have to do is look at Zach Bryan’s two sold out nights at BST Hyde Park. The American superstar has had a great few years. Whether he’s collaborating with everyone from Kacey Musgraves and Bon Iver to Bruce Springsteen, selling out stadiums, or releasing critically acclaimed album after critically acclaimed album, he’s hot property at the mo. Now, Bryan’s making his BST debut with a double-bill this weekend, headlining both Saturday and Sunday (June 28-29) because London, like everyone else, just can’t get enough. RECOMMENDED:🎉 The best festivals in London🎪 The best festivals in the UK☀️ The best festivals in Europe On top of seeing one of the biggest country stars in the world, heading to Hyde Park this weekend is an excellent way to curb that Glasto FOMO, so here’s everything you need to know to ensure you have a brilliant night seeing Zach Bryan at BST Hyde Park 2025. When is Zach Bryan playing BST Hyde Park 2025? Zach will headline two nights at Hyde Park this week – Saturday June 28 and Sunday June 29. Night one sold out so quickly that the festival had to add another due to ‘phenomenal demand’, so you can expect to come across loads of like-minded Bryan fans this weekend. What time do doors open? Doors for BST open every day at 2pm, but those with primary entry or VIP access will be allowed in an hour early. Curfew is 10.30pm, so Zach’s set will end just before then at roug

We know it. You know it. Even toddlers know it: there’s something endlessly cool about dinosaurs. From Jurassic Park to skeletons in museums, these prehistoric monsters have captured our imaginations for as long as we’ve known about them, and now there’s a brand new dino making its debut at the Natural History Museum. Since the museum lost Dippy, its Diplodocus skeleton, to Coventry, the NHM has had a Jurassic hole in its heart – until now. A brand new dinosaur, named Enigmacursor Mollyborthwickae, or Enigmacursor for short, is ready to stun tourists, school trips, and paleontologists for years to come. Obviously, this creature isn’t ‘new’ in the sense that it died 150 million years ago, but it’s only just been officially recognised by scientists. It’s a two legged herbivore thought to have lived in the wetlands in what is now the US, and it was only about 500cm tall, although it is thought that this particular specimen was not fully grown. There’s clues as to this tiny dinos origin story in its name: the ‘enigma’ part refers to the fact that it was a mystery to scientists for a long time, as they previously thought it was a different species entirely, and ‘cursor’ is latin for runner, owing to the fact that this little guy was probably quite speedy given its small stature. It might have even been quite cute – a far cry from jagged teethed raptors or towering T-Rexes. Photograph: Natural History Museum   Prof. Susannah Maidment, who is a co-author of the groundbreaking stud