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An interior-design journalist friend sighed when I mentioned I was heading to Grantley Hall. Words like “brilliant” and “bonkers” and “lavish” dotted the conversation for a while, among much speculation that the owner will never make the renovation/redecoration budget back. 

They say that smell is the sense most linked to memory, the thing that has our minds barrelling to the past, like that scene in “Ratatouille”. Experience suggests they have a point: a hint of pipe smoke and it’s 1978 and I’m back at my grandad’s. 

Laneway & Co is currently closed while the coffee shop expands into the unit next door

Greggs wants to offer a round-the-clock service in Canterbury, Kent, and has applied for a special licence to serve sausage rolls, steak bakes and other favourites at all hours

There are a number of reasons you might cancel a restaurant booking, but some top ones will still bill you hundreds of pounds anyway

The shop could remain open overnight if local council chiefs approve the plans.

The new bar and restaurant will open this autumn

Saturday Morning chef James Martin shared his view on the Glastonbury performance

The restaurant's second venture in the city did not disappoint