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Capital Castles BRITISH CAPITAL cities are all home to very different, very special British castles. The Tower of London would be merely a world-class castle were it not for the presence of the Crown Jewels, ravens and its thousand-year-old history. Edinburgh Castle rewards the wander up the Royal Mile. Cardiff Castle’s Victorian renovation turned a medieval pile into something altogether more [...]
December 5, 2012Read More

Union Jack Newspaper has teamed up with VisitBritainShop.com which is Britain’s National Tourist Board’s official online shop for Britain travel and tourism products: from travel and transport tickets to theatre and attraction tickets. Get great deals and save time by buying online before your trip to Britain. Top 10 Attractions 1. Madame Tussauds 2. London [...]
November 6, 2012Read More

Follow in the footsteps of Britain’s greatest authors WHEN IT comes to literary greats and the locations they wrote about, you’d be hard pushed to find as many as we have in Britain. From Shakespeare’s birthplace at Stratford-upon-Avon to the cobbled alleyways of Charles Dickens’ London, the places in your favourite British stories are just waiting to [...]
September 11, 2012Read More
ONE Facebook user is having a very frustrating time after having her town labelled “offensive” on the social network. Anne Marie Kennedy, of Effin, County Limerick, said last month that she and her local friends tried a number of times to enter the name of their beloved home as their “Hometown”, only to be rejected [...]
December 19, 2011Read More
NOT KNOWING what a ticket was, thinking rail travel was free and being related to the Queen are among the top 10 worst excuses used by UK commuters for not buying a ticket on train. The Association of Train Operating Companies, which estimates that more than 110,000 dishonest train journeys are made each day, has [...]
September 21, 2011Read More
A LIST of Britain’s daftest health and safety bans has been released – by the Health and Safety Executive. They include bans on dodgem cars bumping into each other, school sack races and kite-flying. Ministers have ordered a wide-ranging review and pledged to consolidate or simplify the law. Butlins banned bumping on dodgems at its [...]
August 25, 2011Read More
(According to the Independent newspaper) “You should’ve stayed on the telly” Liverpool fans on Alan Shearer during his brief reign as manager of Newcastle “Two Andy Gorams, there’s only two Andy Gorams” Celtic fans on Andy Goram after it was revealed the keeper was diagnosed with schizophrenia “You’re just a fat Eddie Murphy” Various fans [...]
June 16, 2011Read More
IT’S NO surprise that most of the top 10 visitor attractions in Britain are in our capital city, London. However, with Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Alton Towers bucking the trend, there’s much to be seen outside of London. Between the top 10 attractions in Britain, they welcome over 33 million domestic and overseas visitors each [...]
June 16, 2011Read More