Editor's notebook The best exhibitions and events, shopping and reading - from Sadler's Wells ballet to factory tours at Staffordshire enamels. Forthcoming events What's happening in Britain? Letters to the Editor Write to tell us about your travel experiences, your recommendations for other readers and what you think about IN BRITAIN. Location London With Pierce Brosnan zooming along the Thames and Hugh Grant selling books in Notting Hill, London has once again become fashionable as a movie location. HILARY MACASKILL follows in the footsteps of the stars. Vale villages With timber-frames and Cotswolds stone, churches and tithe barns, the villages of the Vale of Evesham are the jewel in Worcestershire's crown, says JACKIE NEWEY. Teas maid Meet Sue Forth, the welcoming face of Bettys Tea Rooms in York. The Road to the Isles Spoke of as two separate islands, Lewis and Harris are actually joined by a tiny strip of land. CATHY SMITH heads off to explore the largest in the 130-mile long chain of islands off the north-west coast of Scotland. A city with pedigree When London was just a crossing point on the Thames, the Essex city of Colchester was the capital of southern Britain. SUSAN ELKIN discovers the delights of Britain's oldest city. Go figure ROBIN MEAD goes hill-trekking to track down Britain's mysterious hill figures - 11 white horses, two men, a lion, and a variety of regimental badges and other odds and ends carved on to the chalky surfaces of hillsides stretching from Yorkshire down to the south coast. Square pegs? The art of the Bloomsbury Group is an show again. PAT MOORE looks back at these "left-wing aetheists, pacifists, lovers of the art and travel" who caused a stir in literary and artistic circles early this century. My Bit of Britain Actor Nathaniel Parker talks about his love for Tenby in south Wales.

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