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All of the campsites reopening to the public in England this July

A comprehensive list of social distancing measures has also been released ahead of reopening.

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The Camping and Caravanning Club has announced that it is planning a phased reopening of its campsites across the UK at the start of July.

The organisation is hoping to open to reopen sites in England on 4th July, in line with the government’s phase three plans of the lockdown exit roadmap, and will be releasing further information regarding sites in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in due course.

The Camping and Caravanning Club manages over 2,000 campsites in the UK.

In a statement via its website, the organisation believes that: “we are well-placed to offer you a safe, enjoyable UK holiday, providing a much-needed break away from home” due to “being in the fresh air, the physical space between pitches and with additional social distancing measures [in place]”.

A comprehensive list of social distancing measures has also been released ahead of reopening.

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Measures the organisation intends to introduce include reducing the number of campers on site, a contactless check-in, a ban on group bookings, six-metre spaced pitches and markers placed on the floor to remind visitors.

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The statement continues: “It’s important that we give our members a choice as to how they would like to camp, so we’ve introduced some new measures to help keep you and our teams safe.”

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“To allow us to operate our campsites in a responsible manner we have increased our cleaning regimes – this places extra demand on our teams and we have had to open some of our campsites without toilets and showers this season, these campsites are better suited to campers who can bring their own facilities.”

“We’ll only open facility blocks if we’re allowed to do so by the government, we will keep our website updated and let you know if anything changes.”

If you’re looking to plan your Great British ‘staycation’ this year, here’s the full list of The Camping and Caravanning Club campsites hoping to reopen next month:

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Open Campsites (with Facility Blocks)

Here are the Club Sites set to be open for the 2020 season with facility blocks available to use, however the reception, play areas, laundry facilities and other communal areas on the site will remain closed.

  • Alton The Star, Staffordshire
  • Ashbourne, Derbyshire
  • Blackmore, Malvern Hills
  • Cambridge, Cambridgeshire 
  • Canterbury, Kent
  • Charmouth, Dorset
  • Chertsey, Surrey
  • Culzean Castle, Ayrshire
  • Dartmouth, Devon
  • Delamere Forest, Cheshire
  • Derwentwater, Lake District
  • Devizes, Wiltshire
  • Dingwall, Highlands
  • Drayton Manor, Staffordshire
  • Dunbar, East Lothian
  • Dunstan Hill, Northumberland
  • Hertford, Herfordshire
  • Horsley, Surrey
  • Keswick, Lake District
  • Kingsbury Water Park, Midlands
  • Loch Ness Shores, Inverness
  • Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
  • Milarrochy Bay, Loch Lomond
  • Moffat, Dumfries and Galloway
  • Moreton, Dorset
  • Normans Bay, Sussex
  • Scarborough, Yorkshire
  • Scone, Tayside
  • Sennen Cove, Cornwall
  • Slapton Sands, Devon
  • Slingsby, Yorkshire
  • St Neots, Cambridgeshire
  • Theobalds Park, Hertfordshire
  • Tregurrian, Cornwall
  • Verwood, New Forest
  • West Runton, Norfolk
  • Winchcombe, Gloucestershire
  • Windermere, Lake District
  • Wolverley, Worcestershire
  • Wyeside, Powys

You can click here more information about each campsite listed.

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Open Campsites (without Facility Blocks)

Here are the Club Sites set to be open for the 2020 season without facility blocks available to use.

If you do choose to stay on one of these sites, you will need to bring your own sanitation. Separate toilet tents can be used on your allocated pitch to accommodate your own chemical toilet. The reception, play areas, laundry facilities and other communal areas on the site will remain closed to help facilitate social distancing.

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All sites will provide access to fresh drinking water, a place to dispose of toilet waste such as a Chemical Disposal Point (CDP), motorhome service points and washing-up facilities.

Pitches will be available with electric hook-ups.

  • Bakewell, Derbyshire
  • Bala, Snowdonia
  • Barnard Castle, County Durham
  • Beadnell Bay, Northumberland
  • Bellingham, Northumberland (Open with facilities from 1st August)
  • Cannock Chase, Staffordshire
  • Cardigan Bay, Ceredidion
  • Cheddar, Somerset (Open with facilities from 1st August)
  • Chichester, Sussex
  • Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire
  • Clent Hills, Midlands
  • Clitheroe, Lancashire
  • Conkers, Derbyshire
  • Corfe Castle, Dorset
  • Crowborough, Sussex
  • Delamont Country Park, Northern Ireland
  • Ebury Hill, Shropshire
  • Graffham, Sussex
  • Hayfield, Derbyshire
  • Hereford, Herefordshire
  • Kendal, Lake District
  • Kessingland, Suffolk 
  • Oxford, Oxfordshire
  • Polstead, Suffolk (Open with facilities from 1st August)
  • Ravenglass, Lake District
  • Rhandirmwyn, Carmarthenshire
  • Rosemarkie, Highlands
  • Salisbury, Wiltshire
  • Sandringham, Norfolk
  • Skye, Isle of Skye
  • Tarland, Aberdeenshire
  • Tavistock, Devon
  • Teversal, Nottinghamshire
  • Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
  • Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire

You can click here more information about each campsite listed.

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To read a full list of social distancing and health & safety measures being put in place ahead of reopening, please visit The Camping and Caravanning Club website here.

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The Camping and Caravanning Club is seeing public demand increasing and asks that you book in advance to guarantee your pitch.

Bookings made whilst sites are closed are fully flexible.

For all bookings and enquiries, click here.

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Luxury Manchester gym Blok confirms permanent closure after weeks of uncertainty

Daisy Jackson Daisy Jackson Blok Manchester has announced its permanent closure. Credit: The Manc Group

Blok Manchester has announced its permanent closure, weeks after the doors to the premium fitness facility mysteriously closed.

Around a fortnight ago, members began to arrive to their classes to find the gym on Ducie Street locked up and a forfeiture notice on the door – but at the time, Blok said that it was fighting to reopen.

Sadly, in an email sent to members today, its founder has confirmed that the studio is now permanently closed.

Blok – which has several very successful sites down in London – said that its relationship with its landlord has ‘broken down to a point where trust has been lost’.

The gym wrote that it’s been left with ‘no workable way forward’.

They said: “BLOK Manchester was a space built by our loyal and dedicated community. Whether you joined us for one class or one hundred, we are deeply grateful. You helped create something genuinely special in an incredible city.”

In the immediate future, they said they’ll be supporting the team of fantastic trainers who worked here, as well as looking after members.

Members will be contacted within a few hours with options and refunds owed.

Blok Manchester has announced its permanent closure. Credit: The Manc Group
Blok Manchester has announced its permanent closure. Credit: The Manc Group

CEO and founder Ed Stanbury said: “While this marks the end of a chapter, we don’t see it as the end of our story in Manchester. We’re already speaking with developers about potential future sites and remain committed to returning to the city when the time is right.

“Thank you for being part of our story so far. Let’s shape the future of wellness. The mission continues.”

Commenting on Blok’s Instagram post – its first in almost a fortnight – people have been sharing their sadness at the closure of its Manchester site.

One person wrote: “beautiful space, beautiful staff and beautiful community.”

Another said: “Sending love to all the instructors !! :(((( gutted”

Someone else commented: “THE BEST CLASSES. I’m gutted.”

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‘The average cost of a pint’ in the UK by region, according to the latest data

Danny Jones Danny Jones the average price of a pint in the UK by region

Does it feel like pints keep getting more and more expensive almost every week at this point? Yes. Yes, it does, and while you can’t expect a city as big as Manchester to be one of the cheapest places to get one in the UK, we do often wonder how it compares to other parts of the country.

Well, as it happens, someone has recently crunched the numbers for us across the nation, breaking down which regions pay the most and the least for their pints.

The data has been examined by business management consultancy firm, CGA Strategy, using artificial intelligence and information from the latest Retail Price Index figures to find out what the ‘average cost of a pint’ is down south, up North and everywhere in between.

While the latest statistics provided by the group aren’t granular enough to educate us on Greater Manchester’s pint game exactly, we can show you how our particular geographic region is looking on the leaderboard at the moment.

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The average price of a pint per region in the UK

  1. Wales – £4.21
  2. North East – £4.28
  3. Northern Ireland – £4.42
  4. Scotland – £4.42
  5. Yorkshire and the Humber – £4.42
  6. North West – £4.42
  7. West Midlands – £4.42
  8. East Midlands – £4.42
  9. East England – £4.56
  10. South West – £4.93
  11. South East – £4.94
  12. London – £5.44

That’s right, we Mancunians and the rest of the North West are technically joint mid-table when it comes to the lowest average cost of a pint, sharing the places from 3rd to 8th – according to CGA, anyway.

Powered by consumer intelligence company, NIQ (NielsenIQ) – who also use AI and the latest technology to deliver their insights – we can accept it might seem like it’s been a while since you’ve paid that little for a pint, especially in the city centre, but these are the stats they have published.

Don’t shoot the messenger, as they say; unless, of course, they’re trying to rob you blind for a bev. Fortunately, we’ve turned bargain hunting at Manchester bars into a sport at this point.

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We might not boast the lowest ‘average’ pint cost in the UK, but we still have some bloody good places to keep drinking affordable.

London tops the charts (pretends to be shocked)

While some of you may have scratched your eyes at the supposed average pint prices here in the North West, it won’t surprise any of you to see that London leads the way when it came to the most expensive pint when it came to average cost in the UK.

To be honest, £5.44 doesn’t just sound cheap but virtually unheard of these days.

CGA has it that the average cost of a beer in the British capital is actually down 15p from its price last September, but as we all know, paying upwards of £7 for a pint down that end of the country is pretty much par for the course the closer you get to London.

Yet more reason you can be glad you live around here, eh? And in case you thought you were leaving this article with very little, think again…

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