The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh go on a tour of a shopping centre near Windsor Castle.

An Oxford school becomes the first site in the city to have an energy-saving wind turbine.

THE latest 'victim' of the 2012 Olympics development is one of East London's bus operators. The East London Bus Group has had to shift out of its Waterden-road depot to make way for the huge construction stretching from Stratford to Hackney Wick, with its services having to use Royal Mail's West Ham Parcelforce depot for the time being

SWANSCOMBE Infant School, in Keary Road, Swanscombe, has almost 200 pupils, aged from three to eight, which includes the nursery school. It is on the same site as Sweyne Junior School, which caters for pupils aged from nine to 11-years-old. The two schoo

With crammed tubes and buses, boiling temperatures outside and freezing air conditioning inside the fresh air and space on and around the River Thamess attracts people in their thousands. Riverside bars and pubs heave with punters, …s

Six years and £4.3bn after construction started, Terminal 5 at Heathrow will soon open, but will it be enough to sort out the issues at the airport?

Were you shaken in the night by the UK's biggest earthquake for nearly 25 years?The tremor, which happened just before 1am, was felt most by people in Newcastle, Yorkshire, London, Manchester, the Midlands, Norfolk and also parts of Wales. However, there have been reports in the area of residents being woken by strange goings-on. A Bucks resident said: "The quake woke me in the early hours but I didn?t have a clue what was going on."I was half asleep but could feel my bed shaking and started wondering what the people in the flat next door were up to."It was over pretty quick. I just fell asleep and didn?t think about it again until I saw the news this morning."Jane Bowler, of Switchback Road North, Maidenhead, added: "I woke up feeling as though someone was very gently rocking the house."It felt like the house moved three times and the window rattled a little bit. The clock was saying 00.59. "When I woke up this morning I actually thought I?d imagined it as my husband didn?t wake up at all and didn?t know what I was talking about!"Cookham resident, Lou Mace, said: "I was woken up then by the mirror rattling, which scared the life out of me. I wondered what it was."The 10-second quake which struck at 00.56 GMT, at a depth of 9.6 miles, was the biggest recorded example recorded since the north Wales tremor in 1984.

The biggest earthquake to hit the UK for nearly 25 years is felt in homes across the Thames Valley.

There were many reasons why I started my series of rivers crossings over the Thamess. Partly it was a great way to see the city I live in. Also, as a film maker, it was great to discover potential locations to film at. …s

Politicians. residents and green campaigners object to Heathrow expansion plans.

A luxury £100 sandwich that was born and bred in Cliveden was the focus of a BBC show last week.The von Essen Platinum Club Sandwich uses some of the finest ingredients in the world including quail eggs and £25 worth of white truffles, and appeared on the One Show last Thursday (February 21).Adrian Chiles, host of the BBC1 lifestyle programme, tasted the elaborate ham sandwich, which is sold at the Cliveden House Hotel in Taplow, with co-presenters and comedian Clive Anderson.Anderson, who used to host the comedy improvisation show Whose Line is it Anyway?, was stunned at the price tag."One hundred pounds! Even Lord Sandwich himself could not afford that," he said.Ingredients also include Iberico ham, which has been air cured for 30 months, poulet de Bresse, semi-dried Italian tomatoes and 24-hour fermented sour dough bread.Juliane Alber, of the Cliveden House Hotel, was pleased the sandwich was getting so much attention.She said: "It's a very expensive sandwich but it has some very special ingredients, like the white truffles, which justify that."

Greenpeace activists climb on top of a plane in a climate change protest at Heathrow Airport.

The Prince of Wales opens an affordable rural housing development built on land owned by his estate.

THE trust which looks after the River Lea in East London is closing down. Lea Rivers Trust has hit hard times with changes to its funding, which effectively puts it out of business next month, after 15 years of running conservation and environmental projects

Although the Thames Paths signage at  Putney still directs downstream walkers away from the river and along Putney Bridge Road this is out of date. St Mary?s Putney is on the Thames Paths. Indeed the paths loops round the back. …s

Fire crews from across Berkshire and Buckinghamshire were called to tackle a huge blaze at the Severnside recycling depot in Taplow this afternoon.At the fire's height, flames from the burning bundles of paper and cardboard were thought to reach 12 metres into the air.Eight fire crews from the two counties tackled the blaze in Mill Lane, which started just after 2.30pm.A JCB was used to separate the compacted bundles of flammable material to create a firebreak and crews are expected to work into the night spraying the site with water.There was an estimated 200 tonnes of paper burning in the fire. Speaking at the scene, firefighter Steve Bailey said: "It was huge - it was a blazing inferno. "As we drove into Mill Lane there was a great deal of smoke everywhere which could have been quite dangerous. "We were lucky the direction of the wind was blowing towards the river otherwise we could have had difficulty tacking the fire."    

Press Release - 22/02/2008 A robust, official response to the Government?s plans for expanding Heathrow airport is  to be fired off by Richmond upon Thames Council, which has vowed to consider legal action to halt the proposals.

Press Release - 22/02/2008 The graves of five holders of the Victoria Cross are being restored to their former glory under a pioneering initiative from Richmond Council.

HOUSEHOLDERS are to get better flood warnings in future in low-lying areas along the Thames, more tailor-made to their neighbourhoods. Flood alerts are now being given by the Environment Agency specifically for 17 individual London boroughs instead of four 'general' areas along the 40-mile tidal stretch from  Dartford to Teddington