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...In March, Dorset county council voted to double the council tax on second homes — of which there are around 11,000 across the county....
...Every Tuesday, he says he spends hours driving around Homestead, an agricultural area in Miami-Dade county, visiting all of the farmers he sources from and working with them to select produce....
...Drive down to Baldwin, the nearby village, and the contrast is even more stark. Western Michigan is very white and very poor. Twenty-one per cent of people in Lake County live below the poverty line....
...Miami Beach — a separate city — is the southern part of a skinny barrier island that runs alongside Miami (both are part of Miami-Dade County)....
...Ms Homayouni’s job directing her local strawberry festival comes with new challenges, too. Strawberry bratwurst sausages normally sell out at the fair....
...Of the impressive line-up this year, the American artist Glenn Ligon has produced a body of work inspired by the fact that his hero, American novelist James Baldwin, spent a productive 10 years in Istanbul...
...But Rhimes also supports smaller theatre and dance organisations, not least the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles....
...If you fancy an eccentric king as a neighbour, the two-bedroom cottage next door is on sale with agents Russell, Baldwin and Bright for £340,000....
...Look out for them at county shows and music festivals. 9 High Town, Hay-on-Wye HR3 5AE; shepherdsicecream.co.uk Maud’s Named after owner John Wilson’s mother, Maud’s is a Northern Irish institution that...
...Summer’s Crown: The Story of Cricket’s County Championship, by Stephen Chalke, Fairfield Books, RRP£20 A wonderfully researched, very well written and lovingly produced history of the county championship...
...Try cherimoya, a variety of custard apple native to the Andes, which tastes like a combination of banana, pineapple and strawberry....
...The image of Cameron as a tweedy traditionalist prime minister raving at Britain’s biggest festival sums up the apparent contradictions....
...A long weekend of dancing in Ibiza in July; a wondrous week in Corfu in August; the Burning Man music festival in the Nevada desert at the beginning of September....
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