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Rick Stein has been accused of "colonising" Padstow, Cornwall, with 13 businesses established over 50 years, including restaurants, a deli, cookery school and hotel. Critics say he's turned the town ...

Where on earth: Padstow is the kind of Cornish fishing village you can't believe exists outside of a smuggler's storybook. Set on the mouth of the Camel Estuary, it's all clear blue sea, unbelievable ...

Going back to the 1970s is generally seen as a bad thing. Not, however, when it comes to the prices you pay in a top restaurant - and that is exactly what TV chef Rick Stein is offering diners. To ...

September 3rd 1939 was my cousins 10th birthday. In those days we didn’t have birthday parties, but the evening of that day was a day to remember, war had broken out! Despite the war, the year passed ...