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Lottery win for public transport project

A project by the UK’s leading sustainable transport charity that was supported by Stanfords has won the lottery. The Sustrans Connect2 project won the People's £50 Million Lottery Giveaway after public...

The Bill Bryson Interview

Get a unique insight into Bill Bryson's famous travels and writings with this fascinating and funny interview where our own MD, Douglas Schatz, fired the questions...

The proof’s in the proofreading

How many times is a route description read before it reaches the final reader? The truth is, I don’t know. I write route descriptions ‘on the hoof’ using a battered old Psion palmtop, small enough for my pocket. I don’t like scribbling notes that need to be transcribed later, so it saves me a lot of time, and I prefer to spend that time outdoors...

Wild places

It’s quite extraordinary how the Wild has suddenly leaped up into the foreground of everyone’s imagination. In the 1970s, when I started exploring Britain and Ireland on foot in order to write about obscure, overlooked byways and disregarded corners, I was thought of as a bit of an oddball...

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