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Bath cleansing brings Romans back to life
Actors and virtual models animate £5.5m overhaul of?historic attraction For 10-year-old James the highlight of his tour is the flickering image of an overweight Roman beamed on to the wall of the circular bath. “That’s really funny,” says James as he watches the virtual Roman shed his towel and expose a round bottom. “It helps you imagine what it was like here.” The task of bringing one of northern Europe’s most important Roman sites into the 21st century without turning it into a theme park is a delicate one.
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Readers tips to the UK’s best castles
Been there readers recommend their favourite castles across Britain for history, family fun and gory tales of battles past Hermitage Castle, Hawick, Scotland Liddesdale was described by George McDonald Fraser as the bloodiest valley in Britain. It was at the nexus of the murderous clan feuds which fed the Border Reiver conflicts and rent this lonely, stunningly beautiful part of Britain for 400 years.
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Boris Johnson pledges extra buses and bike escorts as London Tube strike looms
Contingency plans ready as London Underground workers get set to walk out over job cuts Transport bosses and the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said yesterday they would “pull out all the stops” to help commuters during the planned strike by London Underground workers on Monday. Johnson said contingency plans would include an extra 100 buses, escorted bike rides, marshalled taxi ranks and capacity for 10,000 extra journeys on the river Thames boats.
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Letters: Travel cuts will leave disabled and older people stranded
It’s not just the unions who are furious about plans to cut 800 jobs on London Underground ( Report , 25 August).
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Hotel review: Sanctum on the Green, Berkshire
You won’t find a Rolls dumped in the swimming pool – this posh new hotel, opened by the music-industry owner of London’s Sanctum Soho, is for rock’n'rollers who’ve grown up “Look, even that bungalow is on with Hamptons,” says D at the upmarket For Sale board. Oh yes, we are in no doubt Royal Berkshire is posh long before reaching the electric gates at Sanctum on the Green, the new, country outpost of Sanctum Soho (which opened last year in central London, billed as the capital’s first rock’n'roll hotel). Iron Maiden’s manager, Andy Taylor, a partner in Sanctum Soho, also happens to own the freehold of this attractive former coaching inn near Windsor.
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Hotel review: Sanctum on the Green, Berkshire