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Youth hostelling | Stables | Camping | Farmhouse | Adventure | Wilderness | Gourmet | Walking | Paris | Lakeside

Outspoken off-roader

Interview: The health minister Andy Burnham went to the frontline to glean why staff are anxious over reform. Now he is calling for an NHS constitution, an end to targets and a means to show patients how much the service saves them. By John Carvel.

Matthews empire reels as MPs go on the offensive

The £400m-a-year Bernard Matthews poultry empire was in disarray last night as British and Hungarian government inspectors studied the movements of birds and people on and off its farms, MPs accused the firm of telling "untruths", and sales of poultry slid.