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With only one week of Easter half term left, here's 27 activities in the North West to occupy the family's time over the Bank Holiday weekend.

28 fun-filled Easter activities in 2025 across the North West

Beautiful scenes show first puffins return to Northumberland's Farne Islands.

Delightful scenes as adorable puffins return to British beauty spot

(Photo: Pexels)

Reviving 'Blossom Break' trend backed by the National Trust

Christmas at Dunham Massey

I went to Christmas at Dunham Massey - I loved it, but want this back

Kate Phillips plays Jane Seymour in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (photo: BBC/Playground Entertainment/Nick Briggs)

Where the BBC filmed Wolf Hall and the locations you can visit

Omaze House in the Wirral is up for grabs

What it's like living in Wirral village with Omaze new house giveaway

3M mid-century Hollywood inspired home with heated pool up for grabs in Omaze draw.

Watch: Tour of £3M Hollywood inspired home up for grabs in Omaze draw

Omaze latest house giveaway is a Hollywood style mansion in The Wirral

Gorgeous Omaze Wirral £3m home giveaway all you need to know

Visitors take part in a community playread at Lancaster Library for Lancaster Fun Palace 2023

A weekend of ‘Fun Palaces’ will pop up in unusual spaces across Lancashire

Ice cream.

Watch: UK’s worst holiday park and tips for travelling on a budget

Families enjoying 'Summer of Play' activities at National Trust's Attingham Park, Shropshire. Picture: National Trust Images/James Dobson

For affordable days out National Trust membership is our saviour

National Trust volunteers in the Walled Garden at Gawthorpe Hall

Historic forgotten garden to be opened up to public

Work has now started chainsawing the felled tree into sections for its removal (Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire)

Beloved Sycamore Gap tree to be cut up and removed from site

Evie Numan, 10, picked the piece up at a National Trust estate in Surrey, thinking it was a rock.

Girl on National Trust site walk discovers 6,000-year-old artefact

Get out into the great outdoors this Father's Day

Going Green: Go back to nature with your dad on Father’s Day

The recent hot weather in Burnley has caused the grass to reveal a ghost garden at Gawthorpe Hall. Photo: Kelvin Stuttard

Drone shots uncover Gawthorpe's 'ghost garden'

Members of the Gawthorpe National Trust team show off their award with Katherine Bates, of the South Pennines Park.

Burnley volunteers celebrating after winning two South Pennines Park awards

100 cows deployed to reserve 50,000 acres of land

Between March 18 and 26, anyone who presents a National Lottery ticket or scratch card will be able to access their favourite National Trust venues across the UK for free or at a discounted price.

National Lottery Open Week 2023 venues announced

Winston Churchill carrying out some brick work at his home in Chartwell, Kent, in 1928 (photo: Getty Images)

Chartwell: Where you get to know the man who is behind the myth

Let children get out and about

7 half-term hacks to keep your kids entertained on a budget

Burnley's iconic Queen Street Mill in Harle Syke

National Trust half price entry to Burnley's iconic Queen Street Mill

Credit: Blenheim Park Estates

Take a tour of this three-storey £2m Peak District mansion with home cinema

Credit: Blenheim Park Estates

Grand six-bed, three-storey Peak District countryside manor house with immaculat...

Easter is just around the corner, but with Covid restrictions still in place across the UK, festivities may look a little different this year (Photo: Shutterstock)

5 Easter ideas for kids: fun activities, crafts and games for children during th...

Savour the splendour of autumn’s colours with a National Trust day out

Chartwell in Kent is one of the properties featured in the report (Photo: Peter King/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

93 National Trust properties have links to historic slavery and colonialism - ac...

Entries will close on 9 September 2020 (Photo: Shutterstock)

Your child could win a year’s supply of free Lego sets this summer - here’s how ...

Does this photo really show a bat the size of a human? (Photo: @AlexJoestar622)

This photo of a human sized bat in the Philippines is confusing everyone - but i...

Check out top spots for summer staycations

New tickets are set to be released every Friday, giving customers an option of staggered entry times to choose from. (Credit: National Trust Kingston Lacey)

You can now pre-book a visit to these 38 National Trust sites - here’s how

Here's when National Trust parks, properties and car parks will reopen as UK loc...

What you need to know about being able to drive somewhere to walk your dog (Photo: Shutterstock)

Can I drive somewhere else to exercise or walk my dog? Lockdown rules in UK expl...

Locked-down Brits could face fines for picking wildflowers on daily walk

Members of Burnley Empire Trust at Stockport Plaza

Burnley Empire campaign group awarded charity status

Beatles fan needed for 'once in a lifetime' tour guide job - here's how to apply

A craft afternoon at Gawthorpe Hall in full flow.

Gawthorpe Hall to host pair of expert textiles demonstrations on quilting and la...

Mrs Susan Fallows surrounded by some of the children who have been in her charge at Holy Trinity Primary School in Burnley.

Popular Burnley teaching assistant says goodbye after 20 years

Queen Street MIll

Historic Burnley mill promised extra funding as future uses explored

Barbecuing in public spaces should be done in designated barbecue areas only (Photo: Shutterstock)

These are the laws on having barbecues in UK public parks

Here are the laws on having barbecues in UK public parks

Wayne Hemingway MBE

Top fashion designer Wayne Hemingway backs Burnley's Empire Theatre

The interior of the Burnley Empire Theatre

Show will go on as Burnley Empire Theatre is bought

Burnley Empire Theatre

Burnley Empire Theatre available at auction '“ starting price Â£1

The former Burnley Empire Theatre

Could auction be the final curtain for Burnley's Empire Theatre?

The interior of the Empire Theatre

Fire at historic former Burnley theatre