Looking for some new ideas for getting exercise? Uswitch has researched and ranked 100 of the best walks for lockdown across 20 UK cities - and many of them can be reached by public transport. They marked 100 routes according to 8 different criteria: calorie burn, crowds, elevation, distance, time, gradient, route type and difficulty.

A simple guide to walking the Dales Way in day stages using bus and train services has just been published as part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the popular 81-mile Dales Way long distance walk between Ilkley and Windermere.

You may have noticed it’s nearly a year since the last newsletter … apologies for that! However, we do have a good reason; several of them now, in fact, all running about and needing feeding and changing and stories and baths. Anyway, we will try and send out our newsletters a little more regularly from now on!