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    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      Tata Motors Ltd
      Tata Motors set to announce plans to build UK battery factory

      Indian group to select Somerset site to supply Jaguar Land Rover’s electric cars

      A Jaguar I-Pace electric vehicle
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      ReviewMusic
      Glastonbury’s final day brings sense of an ending as Elton John bows out

      Genial nostalgia was provided by veteran acts on Sunday, though bass guru Thundercat disrupted the dozy mood

    • Sunday, 25 June, 2023
      ReviewMusic
      Glastonbury Festival — Arctic Monkeys find their voice but Lana Del Rey is silenced

      Singer has power switched off mid-set in a year of returning rock dinosaurs and unadventurous selections

      A rock singer in dark glasses strikes a heroic pose in front of a dark blue background
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
      Why boomers must give Glastonbury back to the young

      It’s time for my friends and colleagues to hang up their wellies

      Illustration of a man in a bath towel and robe and with cucumber slices on his eyes holding a cup of tea wading through chest-deep dirty mud in what appears to be the end of a concert. Behind him are people’s legs in boots
    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
      UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
      Beyond Bed and Bath Premium content

      Plus, gold and dedollarisation

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      HTSI
      Alice Temperley’s temple of bloom

      The British fashion designer and mistress of boho chic has launched a fantasia-fuelled line of fabrics. Where better to see it than in her own home?

      Alice Temperley at home at Cricket Court with her Shire horse Tiny and alpacas This and That, Geronimo and Hercules. The curtains are embroidered Lavinia fabric from her new collection
    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
      FT SeriesHTSI spring arts special: creatives in their communities
      Don McCullin’s Somerset: ‘It’s like the Garden of Eden’

      The famed war photographer on finding peace in the bucolic beauty of his adopted county

      Photographer Don McCullin in Somerset
    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Prime property
      Hot property: five homes for sale in Bath

      From a penthouse apartment in a Georgian crescent to a Jacobean manor house with an acre of land

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: an eclectic design gallery with apartment rooms

      8 Holland Street mixes eras, styles, high and low, the familiar and the unexpected

      8 Holland Street in Bath
    • Saturday, 17 September, 2022
      Travel
      Postcard from Bath: Britain’s oldest lido prepares to reopen

      More than 200 years old, Cleveland Pools suffered years of neglect — and was once used as a trout farm — but has been restored to its former glory

    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
      Interiors
      The ‘accidental artworks’ made of Bath stone

      Patinated offcuts and salvaged slabs of the honey-hued rock typical of the English city now hang in a gallery

      A room of the ‘(Of) Bath MMXXII’ exhibition at Francis Gallery, Bath
    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Art Basel 2022
      Hauser & Wirth puts education alongside exhibition

      Its gallery in Menorca hosts student residencies and an extensive learning programme

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
      FT GlobetrotterGreener getaways from London
      All aboard the 09:02 Country Garden Express from London

      Leave the car behind for a first-class train journey whose destination is a day of indulgence and exploration on a sustainable estate-cum-pastoral idyll: The Newt in Somerset

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      HTSI
      Cult Shop: the Somerset duo weaving stories into their rugs

      Studio Knot handcrafts bespoke creations to last hundreds of years

      Sinead and Mark Hanlon sitting in their Bruton studio
    • Thursday, 14 October, 2021
      HTSI
      The London chef sharpening his knives in Somerset

      Beloved British restaurateur Nicholas Balfe on why he’s found a new Holm

      Chef and restaurateur Nicholas Balfe at home in Somerset
    • Sunday, 20 June, 2021
      News in-depthUK police
      The UK police force rethinking the way sex assault cases are handled

      Avon and Somerset’s focus on the offender is seen as a template for improving low conviction rates for rape

    • Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
      UK property
      The market goes ‘ballistic’ as the Notting Hill set decamps to Somerset

      Lockdowns have sent a ‘tsunami’ of Londoners to the largely rural county and house prices are rising

    • Saturday, 22 May, 2021
      Travel
      How To Spend It: The Travel Issue

      Whether you want to climb, camp, club, drink the culture or stay quite close to home, we’ve found the perfect escapes for Summer 2021

    • Tuesday, 18 May, 2021
      How To Spend It: The Travel Issue
      Tales from the farmyard: an exclusive look inside The Newt’s new iteration

      The Somerset hotel unveils its simpler but no less stunning country sibling

    • Friday, 30 October, 2020
      City InsiderMatthew Vincent
      Somerset Capital is now more Beijing than Bath

      Jacob Rees-Mogg’s old firm beefs up Asia expertise in quest for growth

    • Saturday, 12 September, 2020
      HTSI
      Tiddly pommes: the cider revolution

      Homespun country bumpkin no more, cider and its spirited sibling, calvados, are the talk of the town

    • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
      Music
      Rainy, muddy, magical: the music festival experience

      In the week when fans should have been flocking to Glastonbury for its 50th year, David Cheal looks back at life as a festival-goer

      GLASTONBURY, ENGLAND - JUNE 28: Mark Bowen of Idles plays guitar in the crowd as the band performs on The Park stage on day three of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2019 in Glastonbury, England. Glastonbury is the largest greenfield festival in the world, and is attended by around 175,000 people. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 4 October, 2019
      Retail & Consumer industry
      Shoemaker Clarks wins employment tribunal claim against former chief
    • Sunday, 4 August, 2019
      Residential
      Five reasons to live in Bristol, UK

      Not only green and family-friendly, the city is also a hive of creativity and culture

      Bristol harbourside at sunrise with panoramic view of Clifton village and Suspension bridge
    • Friday, 2 August, 2019
      Wells Fargo
      Wells Fargo boosts litigation provisions to $3.9bn
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