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• Share a tip on a great summer family day out in the UK

  29-06-2026 15:14
  Tell us about your favourite family day trip – the best tip wins £200 towards a Coolstays breakSchool’s (almost) out … and with a long summer stretching ahead, we want you to share fun activities that will help others fill the family diary. We’d love to hear about your favourite summer days out and adventures in the UK. Perhaps it’s a trip to an outdoor sculpture park or gallery, a great picnic spot by a river, a small theme park or coastal hike to a quiet co
  
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• Holidaymakers warned over social media scams for fake accommodation

  29-06-2026 09:00
  Research suggests travel scams are on rise as experts advise doing some detective work to make sure holidays are realHolidaymakers have been advised to carry out amateur detective work to ensure they do not book into fake accommodation this summer, as research showed a third of travellers had seen an increase in potential travel scams on social media.Consumer experts have urged holidaymakers to do a reverse image search on photographs of holiday homes and check their locations on an online map t
  
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• Trekking through a living mountain culture: Spain’s Picos de Europa

  29-06-2026 08:00
  
  A landscape of forbidding peaks west of Bilbao plays host to an improbable world full of wild flowers, animals and resilient cheesemakersHalfway across the first glacial depression, I leave the footpath to stand on a snow patch, disturbing a spider that runs off across the frozen crystals. A few yards farther along, the mountainside is awash with colour: tiny Alpine flowers alive with bees and crickets in a world surrounded by jagged peaks. A pair of chamois watch from a crag, the
  
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