Great Britain Basketball edge closer to securing London 2012 Olympics place - 9/8/2010 01:25

Application for GB to host the 2015 EuroBasket event could be final hurdle in bid to guarantee London 2012 spot. >>>

Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go" to open London film festival  - 9/8/2010 09:49

LONDON (Reuters) - British talent and some extraordinary feats of digital restoration are just a few of the highlights promised for this year's BFI London Film Festival, due to run from 13th to 28th October. >>>

Home Retail, Segro, C&W WW to exit UK FTSE 100 - 9/8/2010 06:45

LONDON (Reuters) - Home Retail Group , Segro and Cable & Wireless Worldwide will drop out of Britain's FTSE 100 later this month after a quarterly rejig, the index compiler FTSE said on Wednesday. >>>

The xx: Making a big noise is not their style - 9/8/2010 06:23

A Mercury award won't change the xx, says Neil McCormick. >>>

Swimmer remembers a frugal London Olympics - 9/8/2010 08:36

The last time London hosted an Olympic Games, in 1948, London was still recovering from bomb damage, the British people were living on rations and the Games, contested by amateurs, were put together on a budget of £730,000. >>>

Home includes 1,000ft model railway - 9/8/2010 07:14

A semi-detatched home has gone on the market for £105,000 - complete with its very own 1,000ft model railway in the back garden. >>>

David Prosser: Connaught's catalogue of woe began at home - 9/9/2010 01:26

Outlook The problems of Connaught have prompted warnings that many more companies may be pushed over the edge by public-sector spending cuts. But while the private sector inevitably will take a hit as the Government pares spending, to blame the demise of Connaught on austerity measures would be to let the company off the hook far too easily. >>>

Archaeologists dig up 200-year-old skeleton of London's Moby Dick - 9/9/2010 12:38

Remarkable discoveries on the River Thames foreshore at Greenwich indicate that London was the final resting place, some two centuries ago, of a giant whale the size of the legendary Moby Dick. >>>

Planes in 'near-miss' over London - 9/9/2010 12:36

A business jet and a passenger plane carrying 232 people came close to a mid-air collision over London in July, a report reveals. >>>

New academy school sends 200 children home - 9/8/2010 04:33

A new academy school has outraged parents by sending 200 children home on their first day for failing to follow strict uniform rules. >>>