Britain

Correspondent Julian Earwaker travelled to Dorset, in the west of England, to meet Adrian Fisher, the world's leading maze designer. Let these gentlemen show you five of the many mazes that Fisher has created.

Our March travel article takes us on long walks through the breathtaking Yorkshire countryside in northern England. Now you can read all four parts of author and photographer Franz Marc Frei's photo essay for Spotlight Online.

Flight EZY1496 from Birmingham to Geneva had sat on the runway for nearly half an hour when the captain said he had some "bad news". The ground crew had put 10 tonnes too much fuel into the plane. Before the flight could take off, 37 passengers would have to debark.

As our writer gets ready to go on a trip, he's been thinking about the meaning of travel. Helping him is the British philosopher Alain de Botton, author of The Art of Travel, a beautiful book about how to be happier during our journeys.

Cliveden is England's most majestic country house. Every British monarch since George I has stayed there. Cliveden was also the scene of the Profumo affair, a sex and spy scandal that led to the collapse of the British government in 1964. 

Single malt is pure malted whisky made by a single distiller. The best-selling single malts in the world, the Glenlivet and Glenfiddich, are made beside the River Spey in north-eastern Scotland. The Spirit of Speyside Festival starts on 29 April.

Edinburgh may be the capital, but Glasgow has the capital. Well, that's what Glaswegians say. The fierce rivalry between the two cities is based on the contrast between Glasgow's working-class traditions and Edinburgh's ruling establishment.

William Shakespeare died in 1616 and was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon. This is where he had been baptised in 1564. "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go." — Hamlet.