IT’S a fantasy as exotic than anything dreamt up by Sir Walter Scott – Scotland’s most famous novelist, whose “Waverley” tales once gripped the imagination of the world, with their ghosts, goblins, romantic abbeys ruinous castles – and other things that go bump in the night. Here I am, waking amid expanses of crisp, starched […]
I am often asked about my association with the Independent newspaper and it associated media titles. For most of my professional journalistic life I have been associated with the Independent – one of the world’s great media brands. For many years I was executive news editor of the the Independent, before becoming Executive Editor. I
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Forget the Orient Express. Never mind the Trans-Siberian. The Bullet Train? Old hat, I’m afraid. Here, in as remote a location as it is possible to find on the planet, is one of the truly great train journeys of the world. In a virgin rainforest, 9,000 miles from home, the British-built steam locos of Tasmania’s
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