With a couple of hours to spare, we took the little ones over to Bean and Brush Cafe in Sale. Unsure of exactly where we were going we parked in the M&S car park, perfect, except it’s a maximum of an hour and a very efficient car parking attendant is on standby. So perhaps try the Tesco&r...

Step through the garden centre to the vicarage garden and you feel like you have walked into a chapter of Frances Burnett’s ‘The Secret Garden’. From benches surrounded by honeysuckle, overflowing herbaceous borders, woodland walks and ducks in the peace garden, to Billy and Wilf t...

If you’re looking to introduce the kids to Chinese food, then the Tai Pan may well fit the bill. Located in purpose-built premises on Upper Brook Street, free on-site parking makes it very easy and the children will find the supermarket downstairs an interesting contrast to Sainsbury’s. ...