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simon heptinstall @sheptinstall

#writer #photographer #editor dubbed 'miserable little squirt' by Private Eye, interested in #views #travel #hills #cars #thesea & #anything

Joined January 2009
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GM’s new California ideas unit reimagines the off-roader newatlas.com/automotive/gmc-…

Hummer X 4x4 concept adapts to owner's whims via flex fabrication

Fancy driving an off-roader guided by its own remote drone flying ahead to recce the terrain and relay images back to your dashboard screen?

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What makes driving fun? Scientists at my old university department study the thrill of motoring using one of my favourite cars... my perfect story: newatlas.com/automotive/pole…

What makes driving fun? Scientists study the thrill of motoring

Do you like driving? Maybe not stuck in an urban jam, dodging potholes or crawling amid draconian speed limits – but out there on the open road, taking sunny corners in a nice car? The roar of the...

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I stayed in the UK's most popular holiday home but is it worth the hype? - MSN - goo.gl/alerts/g5FiaR #GoogleAlerts
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The British road trip is over spectator.com/article/the-br…

The British road trip is over

The road trip is still promoted in Britain but the infrastructure to support it does not exist.

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Is it? Speed cameras, humps, 20mph limits, road works and pot holes everywhere. Has driving ever been as unpleasant?
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What is wrong with UK's 'most popular' holiday home mol.im/a/15680683

I stayed in the UK's most popular holiday home - but is it worth it?

It has everything for a dream coastal escape: ocean views, luxury interiors, its own sauna pod. What is it that keeps guests coming back?

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Great to have three-page feature in today's Daily Mail, thanks to all the PRs who helped with research. Lots of things I want to do in that list!
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BMW turns April Fool's joke into Nürburgring race car newatlas.com/automotive/bmw-…

BMW turns April Fool's joke into Nürburgring race car

It was one of those April Fool’s jokes that PR departments love to make.

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Audi RS 5 PHEV showcases breakthrough in dynamic torque control newatlas.com/automotive/audi…

Audi RS 5 PHEV showcases breakthrough in dynamic torque control

The new Audi RS 5 is such a technological showcase it should come with the iconic ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’ advertising slogan plastered all over it. That marketing phrase meant "progress through...

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Toyota's all-new midsize SUV marks a first for the USA newatlas.com/automotive/2027…

Toyota's all-new midsize SUV marks a first for the USA

In many ways, the new Toyota Highlander is a landmark model: the company’s first three-row electric SUV in the US and the first to use batteries from the new Toyota plant in North Carolina.

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Staying in Oxford. It's personal. bbc.com/travel/article/20260…

You can sleep over at Oxford's colleges - here's what it's really like

During university holidays, visitors can stay overnight inside Oxford University's historic colleges. A former student returns to see what access to this hidden world feels like.

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Wow, what bed. Luxury snoozing courtesy the newly refurbed Feathers Hotel, Woodstock, Oxford @FeathersHotel
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This theguardian.com/business/202…

Health and safety rules holding UK infrastructure back, says writer of government report

Exclusive: John Fingleton says regulators need to change their attitude to risk to end the country’s economic stagnation

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The scourge of the cultural inheritance tax spectator.co.uk/article/the-…

The scourge of the cultural inheritance tax

Britons are being priced out of their own history by heritage organisations such as the National Trust that insist rising entrance fees are necessary.

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Me writing in the Spectator
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Rip-off Britain prices ordinary folk out of its own heritage. What could possibly go wrong?
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This is selling best in America. Why? Come on UK readers, why are you lagging behind. Please help me save for my classic Alfa GTV
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This was fun to write! Researching and revealing the truth about some of the worst motorway services in the various formats and platforms of today's Mail on Sunday
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Lovely Lymington in #Hampshire is getting some #travel media love as one of Britain’s posh seaside spots from @sheptinstall in @travelmail (bit.ly/4eghUcx), and among the 10 most genteel seaside towns by Sarah Baxter in @TelegraphTravel (bit.ly/3T61c5V)
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Sampling new menu at @ Prezzo Italian, wow, ups the game for high street Italian food. Thanks Emmer and all at Prezzo Exmouth
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