The President of Finland is pleased.

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For the ninth year in a row his nation has been declared the happiest country in the world.

He cites four pillars for a thriving population - ‘a robust education system, a sense of security, a welfare society and a close attachment to nature’. It’s that last one I want to talk about.

This week, amid all the frightening and deadly serious events at home and abroad, something rather wonderful happened in the UK. I know. Hard to believe isn’t it?

A new footpath stretching around the entire coast of........

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