By ITWA
Leeds Loves Shopping – the UK’s only retail festival – returns for a sixth year with a late night shopping launch event on Thursday 13 October 2011. The Big Shopping Night Out will give visitors to the city the opportunity to take advantage of late night opening, events and offers throughout the ‘high street’ stores including Accent, Topshop, House, Primark and House of Fraser. There will be street entertainment in the Victoria Quarter’s Shopping Affair.
Among a full calendar of events, the Leeds Loves Shopping festival will incorporate: the Leeds …

By Mike Pedley
Iceland’s  volcanic eruption is turning out to be a hot ticket for tourism. Perhaps the best thing that has happened to Iceland’s moribund economy in the last couple of years is the recent eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, 125km east of Reykjavik. In the wee small hours of Sunday 21 March, the sleeping mountain blew its top in the first eruption since 1823. When Iceland’s volcanoes erupt, they often melt vast volumes of ice from the glaciers all around with the potential for causing disastrous flooding, so 600 …

By Jane Burkinshaw
Weather forecast for Good Friday: “Cold, changeable and risk of heavy downpours”. Typical! What to do with two over-excited offspring plus holidaying friends with two more equally energetic youngsters? A combination of school, TV and shop windows has hyped my kids up into expecting Easter to be an idyllic time of hunting for shiny, colourfully wrapped chocolate eggs on green hills, with lambs skipping and bunnies hopping amongst the daffodils. Thank goodness for my stack of leaflets on local attractions. I remembered seeing one promising Cheshire’s longest Easter egg …