Lifestyle Property and Travel Roundup

Expanded scare-actor line-up and new routes: Scream Time now features two adult trails with routes through the gothic castle, graveyard and woods, plus more scare actors than ever; key set-pieces include the Haunted Forest start with axeman Jack and his coven, the Boneyard, Hell’s Hallway, and the adult-only Butcher’s Backyard.

Weston House sold for €2.0375m in summer 2025 after listing at €2.25m, while Gaulstown House is being marketed at €2.65m; Gaulstown sits on 38 acres of gardens, paddocks and woodland, and is a two-storey-over-basement residence of about 465 sq m (roughly 5,000 sq ft). The Land Commission owned Gaulstown since 1967 and the Greene family owned it for the previous 35 years.

Inglenook Cottage, a 300-year-old Grade II listed stone thatched cottage in Broad Campden once the village smithy, is priced from £726 for a seven-night stay; the property sleeps two (and a dog) and blends original features such as exposed beams, a large inglenook fireplace and stone staircase with modern appliances; it's about 40 miles from Birmingham with local pubs and historic market towns nearby.