NEWS

Get up to 40 per cent off short breaks at all 26 four-star QHotels nationwide in the group’s winter sale. Prices for two nights for two people start at £110 and locations include Manchester, Cambridge, Leeds and Oxford and rural Kent, Cheshire and Northumberland for stays to December 23, 2018. Go to qhotels.co.uk/wintersale

Durham’s spectacular fournight Lumiere light festival returns from Thursday featuring 29 artworks around the city, ranging from a giant illuminated mobile over the River Wear to a lit-up flower field in the cathedral cloister. Artists from Canada, the US, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Finland, plus the UK, created the display. The last festival in 2015 attracted 200,000 visitors. It’s best seen by just walking the city streets. lumiere-festival.co.uk