If you had been in Venice just over a year ago and gone to see the elegant Bridge of Sighs, you would have had an unpleasant surprise.

Simon Power confirms the MetService is negotiating with the BBC to provide some forecasting services.

A leading British paper claims the UN has made a sizeable blunder over key evidence on global warming.

Despite rave reviews, this band is quite modest.

Annabelle Thorpe discovers a tranquil sanctuary on the remote Isles of Scilly.

A ban on children under 18 using sunbeds in the UK will move a step closer today after the Government agreed to back a private member's Bill.

Sir Paul McCartney is preparing to walk down the aisle for the third time next year, according to reports.

Director Guy Ritchie is following his ex-wife Madonna into the music industry - by launching his own record company.

Katy Perry has sparked pregnancy rumours after posting a series of cryptic messages on Twitter.

Around Britain, the placid calm of urban ponds and watercourses is being disturbed by a rapacious new menace – legions of abandoned pet terrapins.

Musician finds relief after undergoing life-threatening surgery to remove a brain tumour, which doctors believe had been causing the problem.

Britain's financial services watchdog is to hit bankers earning more than £1 million ($2.2 million) a year with new restrictions.

The defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror newspaper has become the first British journalist to be killed while covering the war in Afghanistan.

Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page is back in the spotlight, starring in a documentary about the joy of electric guitar which captures him trading licks with U2's The Edge and young disciple Jack White.

Britain freezes in the coldest winter the country has endured since the notorious winter of 1962/3.

An Asperger’s sufferer in England who plotted to kill his parents was sentenced to an indefinite hospital order yesterday, despite a letter from his mother and father asking the judge for leniency for their son.

Details that have been emerging on Northern Ireland's 'first couple of politics' have the country aghast.

Britain's one-time youngest ever lottery winner has been found in the isolated bungalow where he lived alone.

New Zealanders planning to work in Britain for six months or more will soon need an identification card containing their photo and fingerprints.