Direct flights from Cork to Cornwall begin next month. Just an hour away, it has scenery, activities and luxury indulgences aplenty for a memorable short break, writes Joyce Fegan

A “Bond boom” is expected to hit tourist spots used as locations in the latest 007 movie Die Another Day.

James Bond director Lee Tamahori and a team from Eon Productions are filiming the next Bond flick, starring Pierce Brosnan, at the world’s largest greenhouse, which lies in a former clay pit near St Austell in Cornwall.