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Nick Martinson’s boyhood dream was to be a race car driver.
But after serving in the Marine Corps and experiencing other places, he returned to his family’s Suttons Bay funeral home to represent the business’ fourth generation.
The decision pleased his father, Bob Martinson, who, like Nick, followed his father into the profession.
“There’s a vast difference between [...]

Trying to persuade older children to join a family trip? Joanna Symons suggests 10 breaks that teenagers won’t sneer at.
Parents are not ideal travelling companions as far as older teenagers are concerned, but if you want to keep family holidays going there are certain options that will still pull them in.
Remote cottages or serious culture [...]

Jonathan is deeply relieved when Annabel suggests they forgo their customary family holiday in Italy for a week’s camping in Wales. With two sets of school fees for them to worry about, fancy foreign holidays are increasingly looking like a thing of the past. And besides, he has fond memories of childhood camping in Scotland: [...]

Let’s take a family of four, the Joneses, from Llantwit Major, in the Vale of Glamorgan, with two young children who prefer to take their break in the school holidays.
They are a fairly typical middle-income Welsh couple with conventional holiday preferences. They’ll want somewhere within easy reach of the beach for their children, but without [...]

Walking holidays with the family often mean that parents are constantly pestered with questions of “Are we nearly there yet?” – by frowning children who find hiking anything but cool. Not so in Carinthia. Here we make sure that walking is fun for the whole family.
The W?rthersee, Carinthia’s most famous swimming lake, holds another attraction [...]

Ryston Park has just celebrated its 75th anniversary with the help of two sons of the club’s first captain.
Joe and Bob Wootton no longer play golf, but they teed off to mark the start of the anniversary competitions and attended the celebration dinner.
Their involvement helped to highlight the strength of Ryston Park’s family connections.
Captain John [...]

Place In The Sun Ds Willie Quit For Spain And Found Himself On The Case As A Consultant For Other Scots
Retired policeman Willie Murphy copped himself a new career when he bought a holiday home in Spain.
The former detective sergeant ploughed his retirement cash into a place in the sun when he left the force [...]

Take four Italian brothers raised in the restaurant business, home-cooked Italian recipes, four busy locations in Orlando and what is the end result? Giovanni’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria with locations in Oviedo, Winter Park, Lake Mary and Orlando.
Brothers Krist, Jozef, Michael and Frank Nikollaj collectively run the area restaurants along with the start of the [...]

The spectacular success of 52-year-old Fiona “Steel Magnolia” Shackleton as Britain’s most celebrated family lawyer — charging her rich and famous clients ￡500 an hour for her services Family Holidays — seems to suggest that you do not need a good or even passable law degree in order to get to the top of some [...]

The row has developed around a 20-tonne sculpture, The Lion of Scotland, by Edinburgh-based Ronald Rae. A small, vociferous group of MSPs wants to see it sited permanently outside the parliament building. Calvocoressi believes the lion does not match the quality of the art already in the Parliament, and would be better suited to cheering [...]