Upstairs, downstairs, 2012-style
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
There are now more domestic workers in Britain than in Edwardian times. As the TV favourite returns Genevieve Roberts and Nick Butler meet some of them
12 February 2012 12:00 AM
There are now more domestic workers in Britain than in Edwardian times. As the TV favourite returns Genevieve Roberts and Nick Butler meet some of them
06 February 2012 11:57 AM
As she celebrates six decades as head of state, i uncovers some curious facts about Her Majesty.
06 February 2012 12:00 AM
An enlarged stamp featuring the Queen's image on an old £1 note is one of six featured in the Royal Mail's Diamond Jubilee Definitives collection. The stamps, which will be available across the UK from today, show different images of the Queen used on stamps, banknotes or coins during the past 60 years.
06 February 2012 12:00 AM
Chippenham Park, near Ely, in Cambridgeshire, was closed to all but one hardy busload of snowdrop enthusiasts from Lowestoft yesterday morning. With 4in of snow on the ground they looked in vain for the flowers, which normally bloom on the first weekend in February.
06 February 2012 12:00 AM
Residents of an infamous council estate that became a favourite location for film and television directors portraying urban decay have banned it from appearing on screen again unless it is depicted in a positive light.
05 February 2012 12:00 AM
Being a delivery driver saves on childcare, says one of Britain's growing number of female truckers
31 January 2012 11:45 AM
In front of waiting cameras, Theresa May gets her heel stuck in a crack on Downing Street but takes it in good humour.
31 January 2012 12:00 AM
Snow came to the moors of Devon yesterday with blizzards on Dartmoor and Exmoor. A high pressure system over Scandinavia and western Russia is set to push raw, easterly winds across the UK as the week progresses, causing temperatures as low as -10c and one the longest cold snaps of the winter so far.
30 January 2012 10:49 AM
Not for the faint of heart, weedy of stature or flaky of disposition, this year’s Tough Guy Challenge saw around 6,000 competitors willingly hurl themselves into mud the consistency of chocolate milkshake, dart through fire, crawl on their bellies beneath barbed wire and splash their way through freezing water.
30 January 2012 12:00 AM
There was optimism from the Mayor of London as he celebrated Chinese New Year in Trafalgar Square yesterday.
30 January 2012 12:00 AM
It is a stereotype that has spawned countless jokes and become a truth universally acknowledged by men across the land – women are the least proficient gender when it comes to parking a car.
30 January 2012 12:00 AM
Britain's greatest surviving ancient wooden building, a huge medieval barn dubbed "the Cathedral of Middlesex" by John Betjeman, has been rescued for the nation after years of neglect at the hands of an off-shore property developer who bought it for £1.
29 January 2012 12:00 AM
The drive is on to tempt the extra visitors expected for the Games and Diamond Jubilee out into the wider country. Matt Chorley reports
28 January 2012 08:05 AM
Ministers should not overrule the Bible by allowing same-sex marriage and David Cameron would be like a "dictator" if he lets homosexual couples get married, the Archbishop of York has said.
26 January 2012 12:00 AM
Pop-ups have become a key feature of the modern British high street.