For many people in Britain, the West Country has been a favourite holiday destination since childhood. But in this land of sunny beaches and beautiful hilly scenery you can also find some of the bleakest places in Britain, on the wild expanses of Dartmoor and Exmoor or on rocky stretches of the Cornish coast near abandoned tin mines.
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Digging for WestrayNew excavations have begun on Westray in the Orkney Islands, where the Orkney Venus, a tiny stone carving and the oldest representation of a human form ever found in Scotland, was revealed last year.READ MORE »