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Britain’s Castles – Dramatically Situated, Packed With History

Britain’s Castles – Dramatically Situated, Packed With History

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 [...]

Visit Britain Passes, Travel Tickets & Attractions

Visit Britain Passes, Travel Tickets & Attractions

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 [...]

Top 10 Literary Locations In Britain

Top 10 Literary Locations In Britain

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 [...]

Irish Town Of Effin In ‘Trouble’ On Facebook

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 [...]

Top 10 Worst Excuses Used By UK Train Fare Dodgers!

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 [...]

UK’s Top 10 Daftest Health And Safety Bans

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 [...]

Funniest Football Chants

(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 [...]

Top 10 British Tourist Attractions

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 [...]

Introduction

The Union Jack has been published monthly since April 1982. Our readership now exceeds 220,000 throughout the USA. We serve a devoted readership comprised primarily of British expatriates, ranging from recent immigrants to war brides who relocated to the States a half-century ago, as well as a growing number of American Anglophiles. All of our readers, whether aged 25 or 75, share a common desire to maintain strong ties to Britain and the British community in America.

Union Jack’s regular advertisers include specialty shops and wholesalers, pubs, restaurants, immigration attorneys, insurance providers, financial services, shipping companies, travel agents and a variety of mail order gift suppliers, all of whom seek the unique and lucrative link Union Jack provides to one of the USA’s largest yet most assimilated ethnic markets. Our advertisers range from small ‘mom and pop’ business to larger businesses.

Circulation and Distribution

The Union Jack is a monthly tabloid newspaper, and is distributed throughout the United States via subscription and a variety of specially targeted distribution locations including British pubs, restaurants, specialty stores, as well as British government offices, consulates and business organizations such as the British American Chamber of Commerce and tourist offices.

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