The Recommended Directory

The Sunday Times has published a detailed list of the best historical sites in Britain (further detail via subscription here) Stonehenge (Wiltshire) Avebury (Wiltshire) Danebury Ring (Hampshire) Roman Baths (Bath) Sutton Hoo (Suffolk) Great Orme Mines (North Wales) Skara Brae (Orkney Islands) Bru Na, Boinne, Co Meath, Ireland)

Which? has assessed the banks and recommended the following banks as “Recommended Current Account Providers” (further details here): 1. First Direct 2. Smile 3. The One Account 4. The Cooperative Bank 5. Nationwide Building Society

The Sunday Times (online subscription here for further details) published an article by Vincent Crump detailing the best 10 recommended romantic hide-away villages, taken from les-plus-beaux-villages-de-france.org . The villages are: Lyons-La-Foret (Normandy) St-Suliac (Brittany) Montsoreau (Loire) Charroux (Auvergne) Baume-Les-Messieurs (Jura) Eguisheim (Alsace) La Bastide-Clairence (Aquitaine) Conques (Aveyron) Roussillon (Luberon) Sainte Agnes (Cote d’Azur)

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The Independent Newspaper published David Phelan’s recommended top new gadgets featured at the world’s biggest electronics exhibition, the IFA in Berlin. Here are 8 of them: (fuller details here) The Sony 3D experience Sony Tablet S Samsung Galaxy Note Native Union Play Video memo pad LG PenTouch TV Samsung Multiview MV800 camera Sharp 8K4K TV [...]

The Guardian has published guides for major cities recommending hotels, restaurants, nightlife and activities for the following cities; click on the city to be taken to the guide: London Amsterdam Barcelona Berlin Instanbul New York Paris Rome Let us know your favourite bits of your favourite cities…

The Daily Telgraph’s Christopher Middleton has recommended 5 of the best places to view the splendour of the English autumn here . In summary, the locations are: 1. Royal Botanic Garden, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh 2. Calke Park, Calke Abbey, Ticknall, Derbyshire 3. Castell Coch, Tongwynlais, nr Cardiff 4. National Arboretum, Westonbirt, Gloucestershire 5. Exbury Gardens, [...]

The Daily Telegraph has taken a look at available autumn breaks and recommended the best get-away places for the sun, here

Delicious Magazine (Subscription here) reviewed different types of Mozzarella cheese. Didn’t know that there are different types and quality of this Italian product? Neither did we! The original cheese is made from the milk of the water buffalo, but cow’s milk mozzarella is widely available now, though apparently it doesn’t have the same stretchy quality [...]

The Daily Telegraph has published a list of the ranking positions of the the top UK universities – a summary is set out below. See the full article here. The world ranking is in brackets: 1. (1) Cambridge 2. (5) Oxford 3. (6) Imperial College, London 4. (7) University College, London 5. (20) Edinburgh 6. [...]