So-called ‘dark tourism’ sites (for example, the sites of tragedies) are drawing in more and more visitors each year, with holidaymakers looking to learn more about the more mysterious or even harrowing parts of history.
In a year that will see Harrogate taking centre stage for the ‘Olympics of cycling,’ the UCI Road World Championships, our town has welcomed another major global event for the tourism industry this week.
Ex-businessman Tim Brear drew on his military background to travel to Mozambique so he could help the victims of a devastating cyclone. Chris Burn reports.
The Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew has been remembered as a “kind and gentle man” and the “gentlest of giants” by his co-stars Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill following his death aged 74.
Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, who played a fictional president on Ukrainian TV, was voted in as the country’s actual president in a landslide victory on Sunday (April 21).
So a democratically elected British Prime Minister goes cap in hand to Brussels to beg for assistance from the likes of Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker, who have been elected by no one.
They used to be passing strangers in their home town of Barnsley but two military men from the South Yorkshire town have now become brothers in arms as they prepare for a tour of Afghanistan next year.
Do you remember Moral Re-armanent, the movement founded in the 1930s by an American cleric, Frank Buchman, who thought that military re-armament alone would not solve the problem?
Naturally, a first trip to Africa is bound to yield a set of completely new experiences. But it took mere moments for Kenya to seem unforgettable. After leaving Moi International Airport in the Mombasa region to head east for the coastal Watamu resort, the nation’s extreme colour began to unfold.
As the world watched a former US President and “the last great-soldier statesman” be laid to rest, it was the parting words of a grieving son which made it a particularly emotional goodbye.
