The Fleece, near Evesham, is run by the National Trust |
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Will Hawkes Travel Writer |
It’s easy to make yourself unpopular while travelling around England. Start by suggesting the local football team is incompetent, perhaps. Then move on to cast aspersions on the abilities of the region’s fish friers.
If you really want to guarantee a barney, however, then proffering your assessment on the local pubs, from the ale to the atmosphere, is a pretty reliable way to start a row in all four corners of the realm.
It is nevertheless a challenge I have relished, both while compiling the English portion of the Telegraph’s Best Pubs in the UK 2026 guide and also while putting together an updated list of my very favourite options in each of England’s 48 ceremonial counties. In my humble opinion, every trip to Merseyside should include half an hour in the snug at Liverpool’s marvellous Roscoe Head.
I would also suggest that there is nowhere more genuinely Cornish than the Star Inn in St Just, a beacon of warmth and wit.
Meanwhile, The Hunters’ Lodge Inn in Priddy is equally emblematic of Somerset, while the Free Trade Inn is a slice of unadulterated Tyneside.
That said, I’m sorry if you feel I’ve missed your favourite local. Do argue its case – as strongly as you wish! – in the comments section. Or send us your thoughts here.
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Funding Harry and MeghanIn this column, one of our writers takes an unfashionable position, either defending a subject that’s been unfairly maligned or criticising something that most people love.
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Hannah Furness Royal Editor |
It did not suit the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to be publicly funded in the conventional royal sense.
It pained Prince Harry that the Sovereign Grant method justified his work and life being covered by the press, let alone the need to go cap in hand to his father for money from his private estate.
The quest for “financial freedom” was a key part of the Sussexes’ scorched earth departure from the UK in 2020, with no less than 2,031 words and a diagram dedicated to explaining it on their Sussex Royal website, in what now feels like something of a fever dream.
While in America, Harry and Meghan have attempted various income streams, from Spotify to Spare, conference speeches to candles ($64 for an As Ever candle named for their wedding day, since you ask).
Now they are back in Britain.
“Half-in, half-out” is not happening. Sources close to them have indicated that they will rein in the more naked commercial endeavours while in the UK. Even their supporters, one imagines, must quail at the idea of the couple selling clothes directly after a visit to a hospital, as happened during their Australia trip.
Instead, I humbly posit a new method of paying the bills: a Sussex subscription service.
In the model of Netflix, of which they demonstrably approve, Prince Harry and Meghan could be funded through voluntary – though not necessarily charitable – donations from the British public.
If the entire working Royal family (including Princess Anne!) costs around the same as a first class stamp per person per year, as we gather from the annual financial reports, a pair of non-working royals would command a far lower fee.
But it could be money well spent.
Those who donated could, in return, be offered a vote on how their contributions helped shape the Sussexes’ public life.
Like those plastic tokens in the supermarkets, which you post into boxes by the checkout to choose support for local charities, subscribers could pick between Harry and Meghan’s talents.
More solemn wreath-laying? More flower-petals and crafts? Pronouncements on the state of the Commonwealth? Unsolicited insults towards members of the family (poor Prince William’s “alarming baldness”, anyone?) to keep everyone on their toes?
More goat yoga? Running races with Alison Hammond? Nuggets of insight into their many frustrations with palace life – but only if they’re entertaining?
Could there be a vote for silence, even, and an option for sticking to their roles as stay-at-home parents with nary a non-royal engagement in sight?
For a small fee, monarchists could help avert the need for a new memoir or documentary expose by providing a steady income.
Sure, the Sussexes may have occasionally served to destabilise the monarchy and torch the country’s reputation overseas. But it hasn’t all been bad.
Their contribution to the national soap opera, in recent years, has been unmatched: the real and confected outrage keeping the public guessing and gossiping through tough times.
I’m not saying it’s a good, or indeed remotely serious, idea. But I’ve heard worse.
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Tim Curry, who has died aged 80, made his name in the cult classic 1975 film musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with a magnificently off-the-wall performance as Dr Frank-N-Furter, the diabolical mad scientist and “sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania”, wearing suspenders and high heels and daubed with lipstick and eyeliner.
Curry was reprising a role for the big screen that he had played in the London and Los Angeles stage productions of The Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien’s fantasy rock opera. Critics described Curry’s stage performance as “a mixture of Joan Crawford and Burt Lancaster” and “Mick Jagger, David Bowie and Marc Bolan all in one”.
The subsequent film was helped by clever marketing, with midnight screenings held for audiences of horror fans. It soon became a rite of passage for teenage filmgoers to turn up for showings in black lacy underwear and six-inch heels.
The film’s success sealed Curry’s reputation: subsequent hit stage roles included Mozart in the play Amadeus and King Arthur in the Monty Python musical Spamalot.
There was plenty of cinema work, too, usually in comedies, and on TV he thrilled a new generation as the evil clown Pennywise in the 1990 miniseries It, adapted from Stephen King’s novel. Read the full obituary here ➤ |
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1914 | The battle of Tannenberg ends in the destruction of the Russian second army
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