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

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

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.

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.

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

Unbeaten in 13 tests in 2012 and having produced outstanding rugby at times, the All Blacks under coach Steve Hansen are doing plenty right.

Discipline, or lack of, has become a prevailing theme throughout the autumn tests and of all the statistics to emerge in the past few weeks, writes Gregor Paul.

All sorts of damning praise is leaching from the British media.

Daniel Carter's first public appearance since his fatherhood tweet delivered a battle between the rugby scribes and the fluffy social media types.

The exotic islands of South East Asia are to be recreated at the UK's biggest zoo.

Graham Reid visits a place of worship and wonder on windswept Salisbury Plain.

Get out the tweeds and Wellingtons and join Pamela Wade at Blenheim Palace.

Old boy spirit is still strong at England's home of rugby, writes David Leggat.

Jill Worrall explores the coastline kitsch of Southwold, Suffolk.

A new £13 million Robin Hood-themed visitor attraction is being planned for Sherwood Forest, near Nottingham.

Many of London's cemeteries date back to the start of the Victorian era and still capture the melancholy beauty associated with the period of Charles Dickens, says Christoph Driessen.

From ballet on the beach to harvesting a hedgerow, a new company shows Kate Simon how to get the most from a UK holiday.

If you want to forget the last 50 years have happened, Suffolk is a good place to hunker down, says Jeremy Gates.