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In an ideal world, I’d spend weekdays living my best city life, followed by weekends escaping to my personal country pile. Unfortunately, that’s a pipe dream, but luckily second best – staying at ...

In the first of our fortnightly Family Friendly Kent reviews we chose to go to one of the county’s most iconic landmarks - Leeds Castle. The popular tourist attraction is often referred to as the ...

A castle drawing room reflects design later seen in the Kennedy White House A castle in Kent may have helped inspire the restoration of the White House during John F Kennedy's presidency, a curator ...

An exhilarating medieval competition returns to a major Kent attraction this holiday weekend. Leeds Castle will be hosting the Queen’s Joust, where families can watch fierce foot combat, get involved ...

Grab your Union Jack flag and raise a glass of Pimms as a proms-style concert returns to a historic Kent location. The Leeds Castle Concert is a huge classical show in the grounds of the picturesque ...

Staying in the Knights’ Retreat means you get access to the castle grounds before they open to the public STROLLING the empty grounds of the “UK’s most beautiful castle”, I imagine myself as former ...

Training guide dogs at a Kent visitor attraction is "fun" for the puppies as well as a teaching opportunity, a puppy raiser says. Guide Dogs volunteers and their puppies met up at Leeds Castle near ...