A new website aims to offer a wide network of walking routes from British train stations, and is calling on hikers to add their favourites. Our writer accompanies the founder on a ramble to Bath Spa stationA British railway station can be many things. A place of tended flowers and toytown paintwork. A concourse of shuttered ticket booths and overpriced...

The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture and History in Lagos ‘pops with colour and sound’ in a dazzling departure from the colonial modelPhotographs by Ademola Olaniran and Jide AtobateleOpposite the Nigerian National Museum in central Lagos, a swimming pool and a memorial hall once stood as an integral part of the city, a popular congregation point...

She switched to the service and has now been left without the internet or a working phoneIn January, BT somehow managed to convince my 75-year-old mother that it would be a good idea for her to switch her landline over to its new Digital Voice service. As far as I can see, she has been overcharged ever since.And then it got worse. After an engineer’s...

From Shaolin wall-runners to caged birds and S&M clubs, these images have all inspired their own Granta magazine stories – and now is your chance to buy one Continue reading...

Although aimed at very young children, the film’s cheerful little airplanes are caught up in a plot involving kidnapping social media influencersParents of little kids might be familiar with Super Wings, the colourful animated series about a cheery little plane called Jett who delivers packages to children all around the world. I have to admit that...

Exclusive: Existing policies seem designed to push people into destitution but fail as a deterrent, cross-party report saysAsylum seekers should be given the right to work after six months and granted greater access to public services, MPs have said in a cross-party report on the UK’s immigration system.The government’s existing policies appear “designed”...