England

On the surface the picturesque UNESCO World Heritage site Venice may seem to have little in common with Hackney, a gritty but rapidly regenerating district in east London.

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Book lovers to invade Welsh Town

A shortage of reading material is not something you'll ever encounter in this quaint Welsh border town, home to 1,300 people, 30 book stores (at last count) and one of Britain's top literary festivals.
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Belfast prison reinvented as distillery

A notorious Belfast prison that held Irish Republican Army inmates during the worst of the city's sectarian strife is to be transformed into a Whiskey distillery.
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British Library explores UK landscape

The 150 works chosen to represent more than 1,000 years of British literature in "Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands" throw up some unlikely comparisons.
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England's most bizarre summer fests

Olympic sports are a serious business, which is definitely not the case with the many alternative games that are taking place across England starting next month.
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