Line will be shut for more than 30 days over the next two years

The BBC has released photographs of the forthcoming seventh series of Doctor Who.

A “complete loss” of signalling on part of South West Trains' London service caused severe disruption for late-night travellers.

Historic buildings across the country are now a “shadow” of their former selves because of poor council planning, neglect, and arson attacks, a preservation body has warned.

Passengers travelling in and out of London faced major delays this morning after a host of rail and underground services were cancelled.

Tube travellers suffered severe delays today with one line closed and another part-suspended.

Adrian Chiles set the tone but others followed suit with plenty more nonsense... plus the odd clever quip

Bus services in London were disrupted after a series of protests today by workers involved in a row over an Olympic bonus payment, amid warnings of fresh strikes.

The ultimate betrayal. The cruellest revenge. A hauntingly beautiful musical play.

The ultimate betrayal. The cruellest revenge. A hauntingly beautiful musical play.

Conservative Party donor's Caribbean operations lose $13.6m in final quarter of 2011

The View From Here

Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians announced that Gordon of Khartoum was not that eminent after all. Nearly a century later, Gillian Slovo's novel confirms the General's membership of the Great British Walking Disaster Brigade. As with her co-authored play Guantánamo and Ice Road, her novel about the siege of Leningrad, An Honourable Man is a fiction populated by real people caught up in historical events. Again we are in a siege, this time of Khartoum in the Sudan, threatened by the Dervish followers of the Mahdi, a mad, mystical leader.