The site itself has a longer history, with the grounds at Alton Towers first being opened to the public by the 18th Earl of Shrewsbury in 1860. By 1890, Alton Towers was attracting crowds of thousands ...

UK Theme Park Awards - due to be held at Wicksteed Park this year - celebrate the best theme parks in the country and the ...

The route has plenty of points of interest, including one of the smallest churches in Scandinavia – Underdal church – which ...

A bright, optimistic and yellow-lettered question that, without you even knowing it yet, will shape your entire city break. Directly on the mountainside, it reads: ‘Bergen?’. I learned later that this ...

The Oblivion is the world's first vertical drop rollercoaster and it was built by Bolliger Mabillard and opened in Alton ...

ALTON - Most of the community knows him as Kooliverse, but the man behind the name has a simple goal: to continue creating ...

In 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the ...

An art project which combines large wooden patterns and a one-and-a-half ton street roller is underway along the Lakeshore.