TV star Tony Robinson has admitted Channel 4's decision to axe its archaeology series Time Team has left him "frustrated".

It has raised over £800m in all, but this year's pre-watershed language wasn't funny, say furious viewers

Atkinson gives a masterclass in awkward for return to the stage

Charlie Bean, the deputy governor of the Bank of England and key interest rate setter, has poured cold water on the chances of an imminent expansion of the £375bn quantitative easing programme.

We’ve seen Rowan Atkinson as Blackadder going forth in the First World War, ruffed-up and ruffled as a courtier to Elizabeth I and trussed up in a wig as a stroppy Prince Edmund in the middle ages. But a ‘lost’ episode due to be revealed this week presents the character as we’ve never seen him before: Edmund Blackadder the Bethlehem innkeeper.

Ben Elton has written a new sitcom set in the dysfunctional world of local government.

Jonathan Brown watches the Olympic opening ceremony with a group of Congolese refugees and asks what they think makes Britain great

He's an English actor who's as authentically bluesy as a game of cricket – but Hugh Laurie does a great impression of an American roots original

Criss-cross between England and Scotland on this scenic Northumberland walk, says Mark Rowe

The UK Independence Party has more reason than any other to complain about the British election system: despite winning 900,000 votes at the last general election it has no MPs. In the European Parliament, which is elected by proportional representation, the party has a dozen MEPs.

There are voices out there which traditional media neglect through their age, ethnicity, culture, sexuality

'We tried to write a sitcom together – I was hopeless, but we had the jolliest of times'

Actor rowan Atkinson left hospital in a wheelchair yesterday after crashing his high-performance sports car.

Actor Rowan Atkinson left hospital in a wheelchair today after crashing his high-performance sports car.