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  • Lovely day!

    Lovely day!

    6th July 2016

    Interior designer, Jill Withers, Wessex’s original and much respected designer, has returned to the company to lead the interior design team. reporting to Jill – who will report to group sales and design director, Peter Berwick – began at Wessex…

  • £2m worth of summer fun!

    £2m worth of summer fun!

    29th June 2016

    Cult children’s TV legend Timmy Mallett is announced among the galaxy of TV and stage stars providing free entertainment this summer at the holiday resorts of Park Holidays UK. The 25-strong parks group says it is making its biggest ever…

  • A right ol’ fishy story

    A right ol’ fishy story

    22nd June 2016

    Plans by the owners of a mid-Wales holiday park to extend their coarse fishing lake were going swimmingly until a master ‘poacher’ struck under the cover of darkness. John and Jane Metcalf, of Maes yr Afon Holiday Home Park, located…

  • A Royal celebration

    A Royal celebration

    15th June 2016

    Soap star Emma Atkins, who plays Charity Dingle in Emmerdale, was the first to pull a pint at recently re-opened pub The Royal, in the Cumbrian village of Silverdale. However, this time, the storyline centres on Silverdale Holiday Park in…

  • Promoting high standards

    Promoting high standards

    8th June 2016

    Staff at Chichester Lakeside Holiday Park have teamed up with guests and members of the local community to create a four-figure windfall for the local St Wilfrid’s Hospice. A total of just over £4,500 was handed to the hospice appeal…

  • Park supports charity

    Park supports charity

    1st June 2016

    Staff at Chichester Lakeside Holiday Park have teamed up with guests and members of the local community to create a four-figure windfall for the local St Wilfrid’s Hospice. A total of just over £4,500 was handed to the hospice appeal…

  • £1m leisure investment

    £1m leisure investment

    25th May 2016

    Holgates’ flagship holiday park, Silverdale, located on the Lancashire/Cumbria border, is gearing up to welcome a brand new addition to its leisure facilities. The ambitious £1 million development, which is now nearing completion, will see the creation of an additional…

  • Cutting carbon

    Cutting carbon

    4th May 2016

    Helping to preserve the environment, two sister businesses have demonstrated their commitment to reduce their carbon footprints, by achieving the ISO 50001 international standard for energy management. Morris Leisure owns six caravan parks in Shropshire and North Wales while Morris…