These roads make for a road trip like no other.
Some are so dangerous they’ll leave your nerves shredded, while others are beautifully tranquil and guide you through some of the world’s most mesmerising landscapes.
But they all share one thing in common – they’re highly photogenic, as the wander-lust-inducing gallery of images below shows.
This round-up details 24 of the most amazing driving routes on planet Earth, from an ‘ice’ highway in Canada to Bolivia’s ‘Death Road’ and an
Britons do not have to travel as far as they think to stumble upon holiday heaven.
The UK plays host to an impressive variety of beaches, mountains and historic hubs that rival similar attractions in holiday hotspots such as Spain, Italy and even Australia.
With that in mind, here we reveal 15 ‘staycation doppelgangers’ – UK alternatives to popular foreign holiday destinations.
They might just make you think twice about leaving the country for your next getaway…
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Pressure is mounting on the UK to scrap its daily Covid stats after Ireland said it would discontinue its updates.
Experts told MailOnline that the UK’s daily infection numbers are showing a ‘diminishingly small proportion’ of actual cases now that free testing has been scrapped for the vast majority of Britons.
Ireland’s Department of Health today confirmed it will ‘no longer’ publish daily Covid figures. Instead, outbreak figures will be ‘updated regularly’ on the country’s Covid dashboard.
The country’s health
England’s Covid resurgence has finally peaked — even though more people are currently infected than ever, the country’s most respected surveillance report suggests.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysts estimate 4.1million people in England had Covid in the week ending April 2.
Although the highest toll recorded since the pandemic began, it’s only 0.5 per cent higher than last week. Experts today hailed the figures as the ‘first sign infections have plateaued’.
In the worst-hit parts of the country —
Britain’s resurging coronavirus wave grew once more today with daily cases, hospital admissions and deaths all rising in the past 24 hours — as an official interactive Covid map revealed the UK’s new hotspots.
Government dashboard data shows there were 72,898 new confirmed infections across the UK overnight, marking a 63 per cent rise compared to last Friday.
Cases have been climbing for over a week, with the trend thought to be down to a combination of lifting restrictions and
Boris Johnson was today urged by health experts and business leaders to relax the 10-day quarantine rule for positive cases in favour of a test and release scheme to stop Omicron ‘disabling everything’.
At a press conference this afternoon, Nicola Sturgeon warned essential services could come under threat due to the number of people off work and suggested more restrictions may be needed to stop this from happening.
An analysis of official figures suggests Britain could reach up to 460,000
The Northern Lights were visible over Stirling, the Lake District and even as far south as Devon last night, as a huge solar flare hit the Earth.
According to the Met Office, a coronal mass ejection (CME) left the Sun on November 2, and as charged particles hit the Earth, a geomagnetic storm was generated, producing the stunning light shows.
Usually these displays are restricted to high-latitude regions around the Arctic and Antarctic.
But when the solar flares or coronal
