mid-Wales

A much bigger area remains on yellow – be aware – status, extending north to the highlands and south to mid-Wales and central Lincolnshire.

Hurricane Katia: 80mph winds as Britain takes a battering 2011

Some of the best books involve almost no travel at all: Roger Deakin's account of wild swimming in Britain, Waterlog, or Neil Ansell's lovely Deep Country, about the birds and landscape of mid-Wales.

Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial 2011

Machynlleth in mid-Wales, where there is some anger and confusion about the bag charge.

Welsh traders and shoppers adjust to 5p bag charge 2011

He may be able to walk to the nearest town, but his dilapidated Victorian gamekeeper's cottage in a mid-Wales wood is so far off the beaten track that he is able to keep count of the passers-by whom he encounters during a five-year period of isolation: "Not one."

Life in the Woods Toby Lichtig 2011

Inside the "Gnashional Trust special" Dennis and his family are to be found visiting Powis Castle in mid-Wales.

The Beano joins forces with the National Trust 2011

Optimism over the weather is in short supply at the Lake Vyrnwy Hotel and Spa 01691 870692, lakevyrnwy.com in mid-Wales: it is offering three-night midweek "brolly breaks" until 4 April, for £414 per couple.

Corkboard: our weekly travel news round-up 2011

The sun is out, the market is packed but there is an air of rebellion among the stallholders on Machynlleth High Street in mid-Wales.

Welsh traders and shoppers adjust to 5p bag charge 2011

Some of the best books involve almost no travel at all: Roger Deakin's account of wild swimming in Britain, Waterlog, or Neil Ansell's lovely Deep Country, about the birds and landscape of mid-Wales.

Travel writing: Lost art in search of a lost world | Editorial 2011

For example, when Beard's first wife tells him she is leaving him to join "a commune forming in the sodden hills of mid-Wales," he is so happy he weeps.

Ian McEwan's 'Solar': The Fat Man's Vengeance (New York Review) 2010

The first stop on our romantic day was to drive, in convoy, to the picnic site, a lovely grassy spot near the sparkling waters of the river Vyrnwy in mid-Wales – not, as it happened, one of the guide book's top spots but a local recommendation.

Making a romantic splash on a wild swim in Wales 2010