Is Hertfordshire the most patriotic place in the country?

The Queen has launched a website documenting the life of her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria in her own words - but revealed she had no plans to publish her own diaries.

A garden celebrating the popularity of topiary has scooped best in show at the Chelsea Flower Show.

The owner of a royalty-themed tearoom explained today why she threw out three middle-aged customers who refused to stand when she played the national anthem.

Stansted airport is to be hit by seven days of strike action by ground staff belonging to the GMB union.

He has nothing to fear but fear itself. The very fact that Frankel returns at all, of course, must be counted auspicious in that regard.

Need a Diamond Jubilee song? Then Take That, your Majesty

Human rights groups criticise guest list that included despotic King of Bahrain

Half a million buttons will decorate banner on barge carrying the Queen on her Jubilee Pageant

I'm caught between a rock cake with a Union Jack cocktail stick in it and a hard place

A council has defended its decision to spend nearly £40,000 of taxpayers' cash on hosting a Diamond Jubilee visit by The Queen.

A children's supervisor who enjoyed spanking young boys in his care was jailed for four years today.

John Lydon, the former Sex Pistol, would have "loved to be a painter", he says in one of a series of interviews with leading punk rockers to be aired in a BBC season entitled "Punk Britannia" next month.