If you are happy in your house, but just lack the space you need or don’t like the layout, then think carefully about the areas of the house you want to extend and improve. Some improvements may increase the value of your home while others may well improve its eventual saleability, but may not...

Documentary photographer Juliana Edwards is publishing a powerful photographic record of the east London site that will house the 2012 Olympics. Taken from when London won the bid to host the Games in 2005 until many of the roads were closed in 2007 to make way for construction of the new site: ‘2012:...

Easter and the UK May bank holidays are getting close and it is important that holiday makers take out Travel insurance & Car Hire Excess insurance even if they are going away for a few days. As Easter is much later again this year there will be more people taking a holiday. In 2008 as it was so...

Director-General, Mark Thompson, said: “I am enormously saddened by the news of Wendy’s death. Her countless BBC appearances across decades, especially as Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and then as Pauline Fowler in EastEnders, lit up living rooms for millions of British families who...

Film London Microwave, the highly successful micro-budget film-making scheme supported by BBC Films, is delighted to announce a further two features have been greenlit following a competitive third round of open applications. Film London Microwave challenges film-makers to shoot a feature film for a...

1878 - Queen Victoria meets Alexander Graham Bell and tries out his new invention, the telephone. 1918 - the first ever mass communication from a reigning British Monarch is sent out when a letter from George V is reproduced and distributed to all returning prisoners of war using lithography. ‘The...

The Queen will attend a Reception in the Blue Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace on Thursday, 12th February, to mark the re-launch of the British Monarchy Website, http://www.royal.gov.uk. Sir Tim Berners-Lee OM, KBE, inventor of the World Wide Web, will travel from the US for the launch. Guests for the...

The Household Division is made up of 2 regiments of Household Cavalry, and 5 regiments of Foot Guards. They are responsible for the safety and protection of the Sovereign. The Foot Guards wear distinctive scarlet tunics and tall black fur caps known as bearskins. As well as the ceremonial duties that...

In 1888 London was gripped in terror by a most hideous serial killer, known as Jack the Ripper. He was also known as The Whitechapel Murderer, although he stalked a wider area, from Whitechapel to the edge of the City of London by Liverpool Street station. Only 5 murders are attributed to Jack the Ripper,...

An addition to the Farmers’ Markets now setting up all over the country, including London, there are the more traditional markets, some of them long-established. The famous Greenwich Market which was established by Royal Charter in 1849 and remains London’s best source for hand crafted items...