This season’s leisure and culture highlights

After countless rejected bids, hosting the Grand Depart of the world’s most prolific bike race is a great honour for Corsica – even more so in its centennial year

As Edinburgh reinvented itself in the 20th century to become a bastion of culture and commerce, the iconic Scotsman Hotel has embraced this ethos to the full to provide a premier stay at the heart of the city

Opening Birmingham to the rest of Europe, a new high speed train is planned to connect the capital to a growing city

Like Greece, Hungary is not the most exemplary member of the EU. Is there light at the end of the tunnel, or is the country destined for junk status?

After successfully establishing itself as a major conference venue, not just in Scotland, but for the UK as a whole, the future for Glasgow as a major business destination looks bright

There’s nothing like a wee dram of Scotland’s premier export to blow away the cobwebs. We sampled eight of the finest…

Newcastle has often felt on the English margin; tucked away on the north-east coast, closer to Scotland than most other English cities yet with a dialect that remains the closest thing to Anglo-Saxon in the country. Subsequent wool, coal and steel industries have long since fallen into decline and after a long history of adversity […]

we’ve been dealing with the same threats for decades

If you are planning to become a billionaire during your working career, is it more advantageous to start out in an already successful family business or to build your own from scratch, without any corporate baggage to hold you back? Should you get a university degree, or just get stuck in? Business Destinations profiles four billionaires who have carved their own unique path to financial success

View a list of winners here…

David Neville Williams travels far and wide in search of the finest greens