White Waltham Parish Council has taken control of the new Woodlands Park Village Centre.

A wet and wild time is expected in Cookham tomorrow as competitors in the village's annual regatta battle it out.

LONDON A 12ft-long sperm whale skull that has been donated to science
is twice as long as the researchers who will study it, but a mere tiddler
among its own kind.   

Repairs on a bridge in Oxfordshire delayed by the July flooding crisis are to get under way.

Press Release - 31/08/2007 Plans for the rebuilding of Teddington School will take centre stage in a public exhibition at the school hall on Thursday, 13 September.

COUNCILLORS have given the go-ahead to a £20million leisure centre and residential skyscraper on the banks of the River Thames. - South London headlines   

Batty Boat Trip - heading through the Islington tunnel from Camden. This is a monitoring trip, so experienced bat detector users only, sorry!

Samuel L Jackson has worked with the cream of Hollywood's acting
talent, but his latest co-star might leave him feeling a little long in
the tooth.

Six museums in the South are among 43 to benefit from a £4m grant to enrich the visitor experience.

The papers describe the unveiling of a statue of Nelson Mandela in central London.

A MAJOR tourist attraction has been closed after a fire risk assessment raised concerns over public safety. The Fort Magazine Tunnels at the New Tavern Fort on Gravesend s Riverside face a bill of £45,000 to bring it up to current safety standards. Grav

A GROUP with more than 600 members took part in the Notting Hill Carnival over the Bank Holiday weekend. Greenhithe-based Bacchanalia was represented at London s most vibrant annual event for the second year running. Andrew Rajpaulsingh, 34, from Ingres

VISITSCOTLAND is to sponsor the London Gathering, a two-day celebration of all the best of Scotland in London on the banks of the Thames, starting on 8 September. The event aims to showcase the rising stars of Scotland and the best of established…   

Forty three museums and galleries around England benefit from grants totalling £4m.

Government cash is being handed out to councils in the wake of the devastating summer floods.

A village built for the purpose of having fun sprung up in Maidenhead
at the weekend as the Timbertown event proved as popular as ever.

A statue of Nelson Mandela is unveiled in Parliament Square in central London.

Press Release - 28/08/2007 - A major portion of Richmond Council's £1million Climate Change Fund is set to be allocated.

Press Release - 28/08/2007 - Major new improvements to the borough's parks and open spaces have been signalled by Richmond Council.

A statue of Nelson Mandela is set to be unveiled in Parliament Square in central London.

Our children's Essex will be shaped by the decisions we take now. That's why it's important that those decisions are firmly based in evidence about the economic, social and environmental pressures our County will face over the next fifteen years. How we respond to those pressures depends on the sort of place you want Essex to be.

A hot air balloon drifted close to
Heathrow airspace on Saturday evening forcing it to dump down in a Maidenhead
park to the delight of nearby residents.

RESTAURANTS and wine bars are getting ready for what must be one of the world s biggest curry parties being staged in the East End. The hottest big bash of the year planned down Brick Lane, Britain s curry capital , is set to go on for 13 days. The

There are two temporary diversions between Gatehampton and Goring.
The first is at Gatehampton railway bridge just after the path returns to the river following its gentle downhill run through Hartslock Wood. Thames Water is laying a pipe from its Gatehampton Farm boreholes to Oxford. The signposted alternative route is expected to be in place until […]