In recent years followers of British talent shows have seen more than their fair share of celebrity canines and posing pooches, but it's fair to say that Jack, an Australian cattle dog from San Franscisco, probably takes the biscuit.

VisitEngland has come up with a list of 101 Things To Do In England. On the evidence of the list, the reasons for staying put are not compelling.

Britain is known for being a nation of animal lovers, but has TV programming gone a bit barking mad?

On Friday, invitations went out to next week’s “VIP launch night of Bites and Bones” at the Bluebird restaurant in London. Held to celebrate a new dog-friendly menu, the event promises “doggie cocktails,  canapés and goodie bags”.

Anthony Neilson's work at the Royal Court has been remarkably varied in tone and psychological provenance. It has ranged from a telling fantasia on the operations and import of bipolar disorder (in The Wonderful World of Dissocia) through to a piece (Relocated) that raised the spectre of the Josef Fritzl case and ripped the scab off our sense of the atrocity and it has incorporated a Yuletide show for young people in Get Santa. This latest piece, called with a slightly irritating baldness Narrative, is not at the X-rated end of Neilson's fertile and multiform imagination, but neither is fun-for-all-the-family (the theatre suggests that it is suitable for 14-year-olds upwards).

A week-old baby boy died of head injuries after being attacked by a normally-placid pet dog as he slept in his cot, an inquest has heard.

Victim calls for the dog to be found and put down

Police said last night it was “unlikely”  they will prosecute anybody over the death of a 14-year-old girl who was mauled by a pack of dogs.

Illegal owners pump animals full of steroids as dogs become key commodity among criminal gangs

It seems the latest star of the BBC is a golden retriever called Miss Molly. If you caught the politics show This Week you would have noticed that the  10-month-old dog was given free rein of the studio and so decided to have a wander around the set. She even had a snooze in the lap of guest David Starkey and cuddled up to Terry Wogan.

Plans to merge dog orders with antisocial behaviour powers fail to tackle irresponsible breeders

Two people have been arrested in Devon on suspicion of breeding illegal pit bull-type dogs.

We recommend people do their research properly, but Staffordshire terriers are not particularly hard work