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Liverpool: A trip down Penny Lane
Sheriden Rhodes has a pilgrimage to Liverpool to find the Beatles – and her dad.

Finding my feet
Sharon Stephenson discovers returning from an expat life can be a bittersweet homecoming.

BRIT Award stars walk red carpet (+pics)
The father of late singer Amy Winehouse kept her memory alive by arriving at the Brit Awards wearing a waistcoat with her face on the back.

Stars arrive at BRIT Awards
Stars walk the red carpet of the 2013 BRIT Awards in London.

London: Open air graffiti tours
Welcome to Shoreditch, an edgy district in the east of the capital where flocks of art lovers are ditching the National Gallery for an urban adventure.

No charges for Kiwi over tragedy
A New Zealander who was driving a motorboat which hit and killed an 11-year-old girl at a London water park will not face charges, British police have decided.

Gwynne Dyer: Little Englanders on the march
Hostility to the European Union is mainly an English thing, writes Gwynne Dyer, but that matters a lot in the United Kingdom, where 55 million of the kingdom's 65 million people live in England.

London: Regency Revival
Check in at London's Dorset Square Hotel, a couple of minutes' walk from Marylebone station and five minutes from Baker Street Tube.

England: Culture of Cambridge
Julia Shallcrass visits friends at Cambridge University for a tour of their home town.

Police offer $10,000 to find suspect
British detectives have issued a $10,000 reward for the arrest of a New Zealand fugitive suspected of killing a gay man in his UK home.

Charges possible in royal prank call case
Prosecutors are weighing whether to press charges over a royal hoax call that preceded a nurse's apparent suicide, police said.

Jill Worrall: Meet the Spencer family
The Spencer Family have lived in the same house for 500 years; I've been living in mine for 15, yet they don't seem to have accumulated nearly so much clutter, writes Jill Worrall.

Spice Girl show lambasted
British reviewers were scathing about the big-budget stage show built around the songs of 1990s "Girl Power" pop group the Spice Girls.

Tamati leaving Breakfast
Tamati Coffey is leaving TV1's Breakfast. The star made the announcement on Twitter this morning.

London: Dickens museum reopens
For years, the four-storey brick terrace house where Charles Dickens lived with his young family was a dusty and slightly neglected museum. Now it's gone from Bleak House to Great Expectations.

Top shopping destinations worldwide
If you're keen for a shopping fix overseas this holiday season here are the best streets around the world to fill up the suitcase with goodies.

Meredith Nash: Pregnancy a precarious perch
Many women miscarry without a safety net of support, writes Meredith Nash. But why is it taboo to talk about foetal loss in public?

All Blacks: Focus needs to be on shrewd, effective use of bench
Unbeaten in 13 tests in 2012 and having produced outstanding rugby at times, the All Blacks under coach Steve Hansen are doing plenty right.

All Blacks: The toughest part comes on the home straight
For horse-racing enthusiast Steve Hansen, the All Blacks' final test assault this year will be like the Grand National.

All Blacks: No summer of fun after England clash
Everyone worries that the All Blacks will have their minds on summer back home instead of the test against England this Sunday.