The Black Caps play England at Lord’s this week. Simon Wood has the inside edge on the home of cricket.

Extra police and security staff will be stationed along the route of the London Marathon tomorrow as one of many extra measures being taken by race organisers after consultations with the Metropolitan Police and the Mayor's office.

There’s nothing quite as delightful as sipping high tea with your pinky out in the home of the high tea.

I spent many weekends as a child being dragged to motor shows by my car-mad dad (and extremely patient mum).

Kiwis on their OE are likelier to be young professionals than backpackers dossing down in a bedsit. London correspondent Jared Savage visits an area of south London that has become the new Kiwi capital.

I’m a big fan of whizzing around Europe by rail. Six cities in eight days I did once and it was a lot more efficient than flying.

Kiwis have missed weddings, funerals and nearly lost their jobs or been deported due to a backlog of visa cases in Britain.

The public were allowed into Britain's Olympic Park at Easter for the first time since the 2012 Games, with a behind-the-scenes tour of its transformation into a new neighbourhood of London.

The former London residence of the New Zealand High Commissioner - one of Britain's most prestigious private properties - has sold for NZ$144 million.

A new picture of London has appeared: it's a 320 gigapixel panorama compiled from 48,640 individual images shot over a period of 3 days and processed over a period of 3 months.

A Banksy mural at the centre of a controversial auction has been withdrawn from sale at the last minute, the council campaigning for its return to the UK says.

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

At least 70 people in the Wiltshire town awoke yesterday to find their car tyres flat - and it may not have been the work of just one man.

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 walk the red carpet of the 2013 BRIT Awards in London.

Rising star Simone Rocha's beautifully executed autumn/winter collection was called "respect your elders" and was, she said, inspired by her grandmothers.

London designer Erdem Moralioglu has garnered a long list of fans with his delicate, ice cream-coloured floral dresses, but this season he decided to put a darker twist on his romantic style. The show began with all-black dress and coat ensembles, with a rich mix of textures to keep things interesting: Feather trims, boucle, exposed zips and shimmering sequins on sheer blouses. There were deep burgundy and black lace dresses with a contrasting pale blue collar, followed by Erdem's signature florals in knee-length dresses. The frocks introduced pinks, purples and neon yellows to the collection's palette, though the color was largely subdued by the sheer black layers over them. The final pieces of the collection returned to just black, playing on sheer layers of lace, velvet and polka dots — sometimes all together.

Ford's show included lacy black tops, brightly coloured metallic skirts, and long, form-fitting black dresses set off by explosive sunbursts of sequinned, metallic colour. The American designer also made use of leopard-printed coats of varying lengths and — in a nod to the 1960s — soft black leather jackets with fringes in the back. Other outfits emphasized a basic colour palette of black and white in interesting contrasts, playing on a zebra-striped theme. The outfits were not revealing but very feminine and flattering, with many jackets offering high neck collars and dramatic shapes.

Few designers so consistently mix fashion with politics, or manage to secure her fans' adoration with the same looks almost every season. But Vivienne Westwood is not any designer. The flame-haired grand dame of British fashion on Sunday sent her models marching down the catwalk in her signature tight-fitting dresses and nipped-in jackets, then in the finale joined them wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with a giant image of her own face and a slogan that read "I am Julian Assange." Westwood has been selling the Assange T-shirts to raise funds and support for the WikiLeaks founder, who is living in the Ecuador's Embassy in London. He is seeking asylum from the country to avoid extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault questions. - AP

Check out all the glamour on the Elle Style Awards red carpet in London. Kate Hudson in her figure-hugging scarlet gown stole the show for me.

A four-week baby has suffered severe hand injuries - including a severed finger - after he was attacked by a fox in his south London home.

The family of the Kiwi killed when a sign fell on him in London have paid tribute to the lawyer and say they are struggling to come to terms with his sudden death.

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