Chris Lawrence

Just twice a year, the public is allowed to explore the vast cave known as Gaping Gill. Chris Lawrence straps into the winch and descends deep into the earth.

Long hidden from international view, Burma is a country of surprises. Nowhere more so than the ancient city of Bagan, where 4000 temples sing of the country’s past. Chris Lawrence explores.

Every year, thousands of revellers cram themselves into the narrow streets of Buñol in Spain ready to roll in the juices of 150,000 rotten tomatoes. Critics say the fiesta is senseless - but that is what makes it so appealing, says Chris Lawrence.

Chris Lawrence has long been fascinated by the 17th century tale of the Pendle witches, Lancashire locals who allegedly danced with the devil. Four centuries on, he finds their sinister story still very much alive.

In the Eighties, it was one of the world’s most notorious hotels. But 18 years after the end of apartheid, does Sun City fit in with the new South Africa? Chris Lawrence finds out.

Puerto Rico has not always enjoyed the most fragrant of reputations. Hunter S Thompson’s novel The Rum Diary portrays the island as a corrupt hellhole. Chris Lawrence goes in search of the truth.

Mad, chaotic and eardrum-bursting, San Sebastian’s Big Week is a carnival unique to northern Spain’s Basque Country. Add in some of the best food on the Iberian Peninsula and picturesque beaches and it’s just about perfect, says Chris Lawrence.

The nation of more than one billion people has an obsession for the sport like no other and for the last five weeks has prayed for victory with passionate anticipation.

Designer Yoshiki Okamoto has created a game of some depth and charm that goes beyond superficial Zelda pastiche.

WPCs from Cambridgeshire would be able to respond to calls of nature while on patrol if the ‘Shewees’ are given the go ahead by police chiefs.