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...

Trades people looking for a career with a difference should check the national press this week. British Antarctic Survey (BAS) launches a recruitment campaign on Thursday to attract carpenters, electricians, plant technicians, plumbers and chefs to work at its research stations on the frozen continent. It’s...

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...