New Zealand can certainly look forward to a very warm welcome during their six days in the Newcastle.

Drunken British architects are facing obscenity charges after police catch them cavorting naked in Rome fountain.

Imagine being David Cameron's public relations adviser, writes Paul Thomas. "How did this come about, according to the book? I mean, was it a dare? Did he trip?"

The English press scent blood, and are looking to take down the favourites.

Chelsea are still stealing Britain's sport headlines from the Rugby World Cup, and that's fine by the All Blacks.

The election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader in Britain has exposed a fatal flaw in left-wing thinking.

The English Rugby Union is to extend its policy of not selecting any overseas-based players for England for the next two Cups.

A narcissistic blowhard leads the Republican presidential race. Australia goes through PMs like a banana republic on fast-forward. What's going on?

Xenia Taliotis spends a day at one of the unhappiest places on Earth.

Manchester United were yesterday top of the Premier League, remarkably, for the first time since David Moyes' first game in charge in Aug 2013.

A BBC local radio DJ sparked an outcry after claiming unattractive mothers should be banned from breastfeeding in public.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has again become a lightning rod for accusation and counter-accusation as Swedish prosecutors dropped three sex assault claims against him but intend to pursue a rape claim.

British farmers held an emergency summit this week, amid warnings that many are facing financial ruin because of plunging milk and meat prices.

When beer lovers congregated for the start of the Great British Beer Festival in London this week, they did so amid a nationwide enthusiasm for craft brewing and ever more exotic drinks.

At this Midsomer pub it's a case of murder most appetising, says Kevin Pilley.

Devon in wintertime is cold and cosy, which is Jane Luscombe's kind of Noel - but only for a few days.

During his 51 years in the House of Commons the rumours swirled around Sir Edward Heath like a mist of innuendo.

Upmarket, downmarket, London's got it all. Dana Johannsen finds what she's always wanted at its famed street markets.

Desperate nightly dash for a better life reaches fever pitch as Britain prepares more daunting fencing.

A 17th-century homestead is a sumptuous base for an exploration of the area's villages.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge described it as a "wonderful day", and there was even that rarest of sights, a smile from Prince George.

No city does elegance - or afternoon tea - like London, discovers Patricia Greig.

Neither silence, nor the passage of time, can truly heal the wounds that were inflicted in the London bombings a decade ago.

He spent a night with Kim from Seattle and loved footy and foreign girls. He recorded all his Kiwi adventures in diary but he didn't leave his name.

Xenia Taliotis has a taste of the Gin and Tonic Experience at a swanky London hotel.

He was Britain’s PM from 1997 to 2007 and has been a Middle East envoy for the past eight years.

With a combined age of 490, the men accused of the Hatton Garden jewellery heist shuffled rather than swaggered into court yesterday as it was revealed that the value of the items stolen in the raid is more than 10 million ($21.24 million).

The British university equality officer at the centre of a racism and sexism row could lose her job after she allegedly tweeted a hashtag 'kill all white men'.

Last month marked the 50th anniversary of Britain's oldest National Trail - the Pennine Way. Ellie Ross follows the acorn signposts up hill and down dale for a celebratory ramble.

Winston Aldworth pauses to pay his final respects as The Church receives its last rites.