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07 Oct 2022
With a new menu, new chef and a new meat supplier, a top Shropshire restaurant is gearing up for an autumn to remember.
The Granary at Weston Park, on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border, is celebrating nature’s most bountiful season in style. Rob Perez has joined the kitchen team as senior sous chef, while Market Drayton-based Buttercross has been named as the restaurant’s new meat supplier....
27 Jan 2017
With their C, X, L, L Trekking, and L MPW versions, you could be forgiven if you thought FIAT only made cars with the number 500 on the boot-lid. The reality is that’s not the case. There is of course FIAT’s range of vans, or as they like to call them The FIAT Professional Series, and there’s the perennial Panda and Punto too. But for some time now you’ve been left wanting if your hankering...
09 Aug 2016
Sightings of Subarus out in here in the sticks are pretty regular. The farming fraternity, the horsey types, and the catch it, kill it and (not necessarily always) eat it brigade seem to love them, drawn in perhaps by the Japanese manufacturer’s enviable reputation for reliability, near legendary ruggedness, and of course the all-important four wheel-drive. An aged Subaru Legacy, Forester,...
06 Jul 2015
If your opinion of Volvo estate cars is that they’re all boxy and a bit boring then Volvo’s V60 might just come as something as a surprise to you. Gone are the set-square designed lines of old, replaced instead by an attractive low slung nose, muscular front, and rear arches and a roof line that, if you stretched your imagination just a little bit, might just count as coupe-like. The V60...
20 Apr 2015
Think about it. How many superminis currently in production can you name? Corsa, Polo, Ibiza, Yaris, I20, Clio, Jazz, A1, Ibiza, MiTo, 500, DS3… There’s a dozen straight away. It’s not such hard question really is it?
OK, now try this one: How many supermini estates currently in production can you name?
Suddenly the list gets a lot, lot shorter doesn’t it? Full marks if you mentioned the...
24 Mar 2015
SUVs, they’re everywhere. Qashqais, CR-Vs, Tiguans and Jukes clog up the school-run; Evoques, Q3s, X3s, and Macans do lunch in the more well-to-do parts of town. Suzuki have just announced a new Vitara, Jaguar will build the F-Pace, and even Bentley, Rolls Royce and Maserati are getting in on the act. The doctor’s got a V60, the local builder drives Sorrento, the window cleaner has just...
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