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The most Instagrammed activities across Great Britain revealed
The UK's largest coach operator, National Express has revealed the most Instagrammed activities and trending attractions across Great Britain.
The UK’s largest coach operator, National Express has revealed the most Instagrammed activities and trending attractions across Great Britain.
The research analysed popular hashtags and trending topics from Instagram and uncovered the rising stars of Instagram fame in different regions and locations across Great Britain.
- Glasgow is the top hotspot for foodies, with 22% more Instagram food related posts than any other location in Great Britain
- Manchester is revealed as the number one city for photography with 99,000 related posts
- Bristol is a top hotspot for art lovers, with close to 100,000 Instagram posts using the hashtag of ‘Bristol art’
Glaswegians leading the ‘Insta-foodie’ trend and Bristol top art hotspot
According to the data, foodie content tops the trending topics chart. Glasgow takes the crown for the top foodie city, with 300,000 posts relating to ‘food’ and ‘foodie’, a figure that’s 22% higher than anywhere else across Great Britain.
When it comes to photography and blogging, two other top trending topics, Manchester leads the way with over 235,000 posts. At county level however, Cornwall and Norfolk are the most prominent for photography and blogging posts, respectively.
The most Instagrammable hotspot for art looks to be Bristol with nearly 100,000 posts under art related hashtags. The city is also leading the flower trend, with over 24,000 ‘florist’ related Instagram posts coming from Bristolians.
Outdoors and home crafting on the rise
With many activities paused due to lockdown restrictions, it is revealed that activities to do outdoors, such as coastline walking or stargazing, are frequently cropping up. These outdoor related hashtags are popular in several locations with ‘coast’ trending in Yorkshire, ‘walks’ in Lancashire, ‘skies’ in Suffolk, ‘coast path’ in South Wales, and ‘scenery’ in Devon, most likely down to the fact we’ve all been spending extra time outdoors!
Home crafting activities such as handicrafts and pottery, beer brewing or baking are also gaining Instagram fame with residents in regions including Staffordshire, Birmingham and Cambridgeshire jumping on the trend.
When it comes to London, even Instagram data reveals a North vs. South divide. Surprisingly, even in recent months ‘pubs’ has remained a popular hashtag with over 4,000 Instagram posts in North London – they really must have been pining for a pint! Whereas ‘yoga’ is clearly South Londoners’ top trending pastime, with close to 5,000 Instagram posts.
For more information on the top trending Instagrammable activities in every region, please visit: https://www.nationalexpress.com/en/blog/fame-factors
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Liam and Noel spent a wholesome Gallagher Easter together for the first time in years
Danny Jones
We wish you a belated and brilliant Gallagher Easter, courtesy of Noel and Liam, who spent the holiday together, along with family members, for the first time in god knows how many years.
In all seriousness, we do hope you had a lovely long weekend, but we’ll admit we’re far more interested in the Gallagher brothers spending the bank holiday together than anyone else.
No offence.
As far as largely inane celebrity news, this particular brand is the kind we get up for, mainly because we have alerts on for everything Oasis and/or Gallagher-related since the long-awaited reunion was announced. Safe to say the algorithm knows exactly what we want.
Hopping on social media (let’s be honest, he’s never off it) to share the good news, Liam confirmed that he and his big bro spent at least part of the Easter break together, along with some of the Gallagher kids.
Noel’s daughter Anaïs and Liam’s youngest, Molly and Gene, may have been spotted together on multiple occasions recently and look to have buried the feud along with their dads, but to our knowledge this may have been the first time some of these kids have ever met their cousins.
While it wasn’t a complete family reunion, the idea of the Burnage boys sitting with a brew alongside their children is quite a surreal image to picture in our mind’s eye – but then again, so were those first snaps of the brothers together in the same room before the comeback was officially announced.
Donavan Gallagher was just two years old when Oasis split up back in 2009, so there’s the plenty of reason to assume he had at least seen the mini Manc before that point; second son Sonny, however, was only born in 2010, so LG may have never even seen him in the flesh before.
In fact, Noel has insisted in the past that his younger sibling hasn’t met his of his kids bar his eldest daughter, Anaïs. As the kids were present, we’re going to faithfully assume the rider consisted of strictly tea and chocolate.
Given the unprecedented meeting and the fact the communion took place over Easter, for once, Liam describing it as ‘biblical’ feels actually somewhat accurate.
Once again, we’re just glad to see and hear any positive stories about the Manc music icons and we just pray they keep up the families until the reunion world tour is over at the very least.
We were also delighted to see that Radio X once again voted an Oasis track as ‘the greatest British song ever’ – can you guess which one it is?
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Social media beauty spots and selfies blamed for record rise in mountain rescue callouts
Daisy Jackson
There’s been a record rise in the number of young people needing help from mountain rescue teams – and social media has been blamed for luring unprepared people into potentially dangerous situations.
As well as these viral beauty spots – such as Mam Tor – the rise in call-outs has also been attributed to ‘poor-quality map apps’ which can stop functioning when in areas with poor phone service.
According to an exclusive report in The Guardian, it’s now tourists under the age of 24 who are most likely to need mountain rescue’s assistance while out walking.
The data provided by Ordnance Survey said that the number of call-outs from this age group has almost doubled between 2019 and 2024.
Overall rescues increased by 24% over a similar period.
A spokesman for Mountain Rescue said that young people are drawn to places like the Lake District after seeing images on social media, but are often not dressed or equipped properly for the conditions.
Nick Giles said people are often ‘too reliant on mobile phones’ and unprepared for the changes in weather and terrain that come with hiking.
Mike Park, chief executive of Mountain Rescue England and Wales, told The Guardian: “We know from incident reports that more and more people are tempted into risky locations by Instagram posts and the navigation apps being used aren’t always suitable for an outdoor environment.
“Add to that a tendency to follow popular routes online without knowing the hazards and context, and it’s not surprising that those likely to be relying most on their phones are the ones getting into difficulties.”
Before you head out on any hike or walk, you should make sure you’re prepared and equipped – see Mountain Rescue’s tips HERE.
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Featured image: Keswick Mountain Rescue
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6th August 2021 
