Around The UK

1. If you're struggling for solutions to school holiday boredom, head to the Kids Fun Ideas Show today, 10am to 4pm, at Manchester Central – a day of entertainment and workshops aimed at children aged two to 12 (kidsfunideasshow.com).

2. Admire al fresco artwork when you pick up the North Norfolk Exhibitions Projects Sculpture Trail, open until 3 August. The 10-mile circular walk starts at Salthouse and goes through Holt and Kelling Heath (readaboutnorfolk.co.uk).

3. Little Lewis Hamiltons can test their go-karting skills at Speed on Wheels, a festival of track-based fun, which continues at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire, today. (speedonwheels.com).

4. Maggie Taylor's Alice in Wonderland opened this weekend at the National Trust's Fox Talbot Museum, in Lacock, Wiltshire. She has used scans of 19th-century artworks and layered them with her own photos for a new take on the classic tale (nationaltrust.org.uk).

5. The RSPB is running a Wheelchair Ramble at its Conwy Reserve in Wales on Tuesday. The two-mile, mostly flat trail follows the Conwy river estuary and has views of Snowdonia (north-wales-events.co.uk).

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