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Saffron Walden, Essex, named best place to live in the UK 2025

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Mar 2025
Life tastes good in Saffron Walden, the genteel market town set in gently rolling countryside ... Saffron Walden has been desirable since the spice that gave the town its name was first ...
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Saffron Walden named best place to live in the UK

BBC News 21 Mar 2025
Saffron Walden has been named the best place to live in the UK by The Sunday Times ... "Saffron Walden has been in [the shortlist] every year for as long as I can remember ... "Saffron Walden was ...
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Saffron Walden named UK’s best place to live – see the full list

The Independent 21 Mar 2025
Its Saturday market has been compared to those in the South of France .
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The UK’s ‘best places to live’ revealed in annual Sunday Times guide

AOL 21 Mar 2025
With its market being compared with those found in southern France, and boasting “knockout” good looks, Saffron Walden in Essex has been crowned the best place to live in an annual guide.
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Britain's 'best places to live' in 2025 are revealed - does YOURS make the list? ...

The Daily Mail 21 Mar 2025
Located 15 miles south of Cambridge, picturesque Saffron Walden battled its way to the top of The Sunday Times judges' list ... Saffron Walden is littered with historic buildings, with St Mary’s Church, the largest parish church in Essex, at its centre.
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The Sunday Times Best Places to Live 2025 revealed

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Mar 2025
... and a market that has been trading since 1141 — are among the many reasons why Saffron Walden has been named the best place to live in the UK for 2025 by The Sunday Times.
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Chew Valley named south west

BBC News 21 Mar 2025
The Chew Valley in North Somerset has been named the best place to live in the south west of England by The Times, external ... Saffron Walden in Essex was named the overall best place to live in the UK. Judges added that in the Chew Valley ... .
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Pensioner, 82, convicted of not paying £35 in car tax when wife died

AOL 19 Mar 2025
“My wife died on August 6 2024 and I was preoccupied ... Court papers show the pensioner, who lives in Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch’s Saffron Walden constituency, was prosecuted after the previous car insurance expired on July 21 last year ... .
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Santander reveals location of all 95 branches to be closed

AOL 19 Mar 2025
Santander today revealed the location of all the branches being shut down and, for many, the date they are closing ... Branches closing with confirmed dates. ... Saffron Walden 35 King Street, Saffron Walden, Essex, Date to be announced ... .
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Full list of Santander bank branch closures as high street bank announces it will shut ...

The Daily Mail 19 Mar 2025
Santander has announced it will close 95 branches across the UK, putting 750 jobs at risk ... Santander currently has 444 branches across the UK, meaning it would be left with 349 after the overhaul ... The company added ... * ... Saffron Walden, Essex (TBA) ... .
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Grieving pensioner, 82, prosecuted over £35 unpaid car tax weeks after wife's death following controversial ...

The Daily Mail 18 Mar 2025
Court papers seen by the Standard reveals that the pensioner, who lives in the Saffron Walden constituency, was prosecuted after the previous car insurance expired on July 21 last year ... A stock image of a car tax disc seen through a car windscreen ... .
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Kemi Badenoch: Farage is a reality TV star - you don’t want him running your life

The Daily Telegraph 18 Mar 2025
Reform has already made the same pledge, but Mrs Badenoch said she had been a sceptic of the policy from day one ... She said ... “Many of my constituents, especially schoolchildren, will be delighted,” the then backbench MP for Saffron Walden began ... “No, no.
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Farage reveals 29 councillors have defected to Reform

AOL 17 Mar 2025
Heather Asker, who was previously part of an independent bloc of councillors, sits on Saffron Walden town council, which is in Mrs Badenoch’s constituency of the same name.
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The week in classical: The Makropulos Affair; Uprising – review

The Observer 09 Mar 2025
Disrupt the cycle of life at your peril ... Uprising will be semi-staged at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, on 15 & 16 March, followed by concert performances at Usher Hall, Edinburgh and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 28 & 29 March respectively ... .
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Uprising review – ravishingly sung opera rails against older generation destroying the planet

The Observer 03 Mar 2025
... at Saffron Hall (whose trust co-commissioned it with Glyndebourne), and also in Edinburgh and Glasgow ... Uprising is at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, on 15-16 March; then in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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