YOUR child’s first theme park ride is a big event. But the time your youngest is finally tall enough to ride all the Thorpe Park rollercoasters without an adult to cling to? Priceless.

Thorpe Park has announced its new ride, Hyperia, will reopen this week after a two-and-a-half-week closure following its grand opening at the end of May. It means thrillseekers visiting the ...

But at 236ft high, the latter was a mission that needed working up to, literally — so it was best to try the park’s lesser challenges first. Part of the fun of theme park rides is that you are ...