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Remember, your time is valuable, and wider reading is extra, if enjoyable, work. Keep that in mind as you proceed, and be picky with your reading.

National and local parks provide some of the most stunning countryside in the UK, offering a haven from the demands and stresses of modern life.

Libraries have employed technological innovations to their advantage, significantly enhancing their offerings and services for their users.

Most pencil cases contain the essentials: pens, pencils, an eraser, a sharpener. But have you ever thought about links between these objects and the wider world of literature?

Cacao beans were especially valued by the Aztecs – they were used as currency as well as for a drink for the higher classes.

The Nile is of vital importance in particular to Egypt, where more than 95% of the population lives within a few miles of the banks of the river.

Some people forensically go back through their responses, they question their friends, they ask their tutors. In reality, it’s done and the best thing to do would be to relax.

The word reggae comes from the term “rege-rege” which means rags, a reference to the mixture of musical styles that the genre developed from.

Only a pasty made in Cornwall can legally be called a Cornish pasty!

Food will be central to the pomp and ceremony of festivities this weekend, with over 16,000 street parties and 70,000 Big Lunches set to take place across the UK; a further 600 are planned in over 70 countries from the Commonwealth and rest of the world.