There are risks for travellers to the arctic archipelago of Svalbard relating to avalanches, glacier accidents, boating incidents and polar bear encounters. The level of our advice has not changed. Exercise normal safety precautions in Norway. Source: Smart traveller

Michelin-starred chef Massimo Bottura is overseeing the fashion brand’s foray into fine dining in Florence, with no dish costing more than €30 – pennies in Gucci currency It is the age-old impasse presented by high fashion: how do you shift more stock while staying exclusive? Don’t ask Burberry. Fifteen years ago, it had the bright…

My father, Stanley Oglesby, who has died aged 87, was a statistician with the Glasgow-based textile company J&P Coats for his entire working life, rising to be head of operational research before he retired. He was born in a pitman’s cottage in Seaham Harbour, County Durham, the second of three sons of Vincent, a miner,…

Three hour version of Adelaide to Darwin rail trip ‘got the nation talking’, so SBS is going for broke with 17-hour special Following the success/controversy of airing a three-hour extract of a train trip through the Australian outback, SBS has decided to air a 17-hour version of the journey on Sunday. Marketed as Australia’s first…