To paraphrase Kevin Costner in the 1989 film Field of Dreams, if you build it, they will come – with "they" being the tourists, in this particular case. That wasn't the purpose behind the construction ...

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The charity says canals offer a sense of peace and control for veterans "I actually feel human again for the first time in eight years." Jay Saunders, a veteran who left the armed forces due to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is early summer in the village of Cheddleton in England’s West Midlands, where a man named Barry, a trustee ...