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Britain’s ‘happiest place to live’ busts the January blues

Source: Richmond.gov.uk/

There’s no such thing as Blue Monday, that pervasive marketing myth that dubs January’s third Monday the most depressing day of the year. Yet most of us would agree that the first month of the year can be a right slog.

We’re freezing cold, ill, broke and failing to keep any of our new year’s resolutions. What better way to bust the blues than by visiting what was recently voted Britain’s happiest place to live, Richmond upon Thames.

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