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Scottish Sun
2 days ago
- Scottish Sun
The pretty UK park that's perfect for a hot weekend with splash park, boating lake and miniature railway
It even has a three-storey soft play and on-site cafe HEATING UP The pretty UK park that's perfect for a hot weekend with splash park, boating lake and miniature railway Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) WITH the temperature set to rise this weekend, Swanley Park is a great place to both stay cool and keep the kids entertained. The pretty park in Kent has plenty of family-friendly things to do during the hot weather and attractions start from just £1. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 5 Swanley Park in Kent has lots of attractions like the boating lake Credit: Swanley Park 5 It has a child-friendly inflatable too Credit: Swanley Park Win one of 8 incredible holidays to the Caribbean, Mexico and Greece by voting in The Sun's Travel Awards - enter to win here Over the weekend, the most popular spot is likely to be the children's splash park. The splash pool is designed for children in mind, with a large splash area and fun water features like big fountains and tipping buckets. Each child must be accompanied by an adult and it's a £1 entry fee per person. While the splash park does take walk-ins (for £1.50 per person), it's advised to book ahead. For anyone wanting to relax in the sunshine, you can even hire out a deck chair for £3. Another addition to the water activities is The Plunge. It's an inflatable waterslide which is four metres high, kids can climb up and then slide down into the pool below. For 10 minutes, it's an entry fee of £2.50. For more on the water activities, head to the boating lake. Huge £15million water park right by the beach to finally reopen after shutting for more than a year 5 Inside is a big soft play centre which is across three storeys Credit: Swanley Park 5 There's a miniature railway around the park as well Credit: Swanley Park There's plenty to do, from renting out pedalos, kayaks and rowing boats - prices vary from £5 to £11. Inside is the Barnyard which is a huge soft play area set across three floors with climbing frames, twisty slides, and a dedicated toddler area Tickets for children are £6 each and the accompanying adult goes free. There are some driving experiences for kids too, but don't worry, it's all around a track. Kids can hop in and get behind the wheel of battery operated cars around the track - it's well-equipped with safety bumpers. A loop around the track costs just £2. Swanley Park has its very own miniature railway too, and riders can join the train from either the New Barn Station or the platform Swanley Parkway. The track circles the lower section of Swanley Park so it's a great way to arrive and leave the site. A single journey costs £1.50 per person, and a return is £2 - under threes go free. In the park is also a play area with zip wires, roundabouts, swings, climbing wall, slides, and seesaws. Pooches are welcome in Swanley Park as long as they're on a lead, but they're not permitted in some places, like the children's play area and around the boat lake. After all the running around, families can get a bite to eat at the Swanley Park Cafe. It serves up hot meals like nuggets or burgers or fish fingers and chips for kids. There are choices for adults too, as well as sandwiches, toasties along with coffee, soft drinks and a choice of smoothies. Plus, check out the 10 best outdoor splash parks to take your kids to cool off this weekend – and some are even free. And all of the waterparks in the UK mapped – with lazy rivers and wave pools in time for the hot weather.
The Independent
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Comedian Ed Night secretly hates IKEA Overrated or Underrated
What's the verdict on meal deals, mullets, and Weetabix? We put comedian Ed Night in the hot seat for a game of Overrated or Underrated, as he gives his takes on British essentials, unhinged customs, and how much truth really lies in astrology. From Lucozade to small plates, mullets and the etiquette of clapping when the plane lands – Ed gives his scolding hot take on the UK 's most beloved (and bizarre) customs. Catch Ed on his UK tour 'The Plunge' from 7th May, and a brand-new show at the Edinburgh Fringe in August. For tickets, please visit here.
Sunday Post
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Sunday Post
Life according to... comedian Ed Night
Get a weekly round-up of stories from The Sunday Post: Thank you for signing up to our Sunday Post newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up After a sell-out run at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, we caught up with Ed Night as he brings his show The Plunge back to the capital and Glasgow next month. How pleased were you with the response to your Edinburgh show, The Plunge? I was delighted because I hadn't done the Fringe for a long time. I'd fallen out of the habit of writing a new show every year. I was worried it was going to be very different from what I remembered, I was going to be out of practise and basically feel like a bit of a spare part. If anything, getting out of the rhythm of having to churn out a new show every year kind of reset my expectations and excitement. You get your show every day, you get to gig a load of times and hang out with your pals. Unfortunately, you just have to pay like a million pounds for the privilege. How excited are you to tour it? I love travelling and being on the road and it feels cool to do my own show on tour. I'm excited to see what the show still has left for me to discover. I'm more settled down now so touring is more difficult. I have more responsibilities. I've been stuck in Norway before when I was about 22 after a gig. At the time it was like water off a duck's back. Now if that happened to me, it would ruin my life. As well as Edinburgh, you're playing Glasgow too? It's an amazing city. Growing up I had family living there so I'd been many times before I did my first gig there. The comedy scene in Glasgow is really great – it's probably one of the only places in the UK I could move at the moment and feel like I wasn't losing a step comedy wise. London's massive and the most well-connected place but the gigs up in Scotland are really great, and good fun. You talk about your OCD in the show? A lot of time you're catastrophic thinking and constantly all day you're replaying social interactions or having intrusive thoughts, convincing yourself that you've killed someone by sneezing on the Tube, mad stuff like that. When I'm on stage, it's the most that I'm really in the moment. I'm not second guessing everything. I feel I'm in control of my environment but there's also a kind of giving up of control. I've tried to think about it a lot and analyse it. I can't really pathologise it in a satisfying way, but I'm not in my own head when I'm on stage. It's not why I got into it and why I love doing it but if I'm in a slump, doing gigs makes me feel better. I talk about it in the show but don't soapbox. I don't really have a point to make. If I can say something true, real and insightful in getting to a punchline, then that's two birds, one stone. © Rebecca Need-Menear Your sketches online have gone viral, has that brought more people to your shows? There's no doubt I wouldn't be touring at the scale I am if it wasn't for social media. It's all still quite alien to me. Comics starting now know that's something they have to do in tandem. I've had to learn it a bit. It was exciting when the first video started to go viral but you're also a bit like 'how do I keep this rolling?' I've found the pressure of coming up with something as funny, every week, forever extremely daunting. You're learning on the fly to be a social media manager, what video resolutions are popular, what time of day is the best to post. Suddenly, how funny it is is fourth down on your list. Is there pressure with those extra metrics of likes and shares? The way I think, that's a nightmare to me. They give you so much stuff, the illusion of having some kind of awareness or control over what's happening. I can see everything, the demographic breakdown of my followers, the length of videos that get the most uptake, how many link clicks correspond to a single ticket sale. There's so much data thrown at you, you think there must be some way that I can use that to exert some kind of control over the output. That's just not the case. You just have to keep making stuff and hoping that people like it. Ed Night is at Edinburgh's Monkey Barrel on May 9 and Glasgow's The Stand on May 10. Visit
