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4 Sep 2014: The city’s naturists face the unwelcome news that authorities plan to turn their haunt in to a ‘family friendly’ resort. The Moscow Times reports
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25 Aug 2014: Barnardo's finds 'no-frills' bank holiday trip costs up to £172 and demands urgent action on child poverty
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24 Aug 2014: Following Wales’s lead, England is opening a national coastal path. The first section, in the post-industrial north-east, makes a captivating two-day walk, says Chris Moss
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20 Aug 2014: Visitors to the DPRK expect to have their every move monitored, so it took travel blog The Velvet Rocket by surprise when they were dropped off at the beach unsupervised for a couple of hours. They set about meeting as many locals as they could, taking photos as they went. The results are a refreshing change from the stage-managed images often seen emerging from the country
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15 Aug 2014: Every magical thing you’ve ever heard about Hawaii is true: these eight volcanic islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean are a tropical paradise, a geological marvel and an ecological treasure. Mary Caperton Morton explores them
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12 Aug 2014: Once all you needed for a beach holiday was a bikini, a towel and sunglasses. These days cover-ups are also de rigueur
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12 Aug 2014: The Cyclades are the picture-perfect Greek islands where whitewashed villages tumble down to azure bays. Andrew Bostock explores the famous – Mykonos and Santorini – and smaller islands too
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9 Aug 2014: Head for the Med near the city of Narbonne, says Liz Boulter, and you’ll see why artists are drawn by its fishing villages, lagoons and sandy beaches – and why the French have kept it to themselves
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8 Aug 2014: On the plus side, there’s the shopping – seaside shops are a cornucopia of eccentric British rubbish. On the down side, there’s an astonishing lack of diversity – do minority ethnic groups go to the seaside?
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