The fight to prevent a house designed by Arthur Conan Doyle from being converted into flats is to be taken to the UK's High Court.

Great Britain is expected to be blanketed with up to eight inches of snow this weekend, as another icy front grips the country.

He is from another era of current affairs television and tonight (Friday afternoon NZ time) that era will end.

Luton has long been saddled by the suggestion that it is a town riddled with terrorists.

Scotland Yard will consider asking the British Home Secretary to ban further student marches.

The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has condemned Swedish prosecutors' decision to lodge an appeal blocking her son's freedom.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was scheduled to appear in a London court on Tuesday seeking to fight his extradition to Sweden.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will reportedly appear in a London court tonight (NZT), in a second attempt to win bail. He's also issued a statement, through his mother, saying he's determined to fight for the future of WikiLeaks.

The founder of WikiLeaks has issued a plea from jail for his supporters to keep fighting, accusing Visa, Mastercard and Paypal of being instruments of US foreign policy.

So says the excited UK press, with fresh tabloid reports stating the unlikely pair's relationship is more than a fling.

A new tour takes in the grand settings of Prince William and Kate Middleton's courtship.

Nicholas Evans' new novel, The Brave, deals with the hard edges of life. This is a story of people and relationships interlaced with a complicated and ambitious plot.

Britain is considering banning far-right United States pastor Terry Jones from travelling to the UK.

Although this year's harvest is bountiful and prices are buoyant, a long-term threat hangs over the future of the UK's mistletoe.

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour has been arrested over his involvement in the student protests in London last week.

Tony Blair is to be recalled before the Iraq inquiry.

British women in their twenties have smashed the glass ceiling and are now being paid more than their male counterparts.

Mohamed Taranissi, the so-called 'bad boy of the fertility world' is still Britain's most successful IVF specialist.

With the Australian cricket team hitting a new low, is spin king Shane Warne about to come out of retirement and return to test cricket?

With the 2010 Bad Sex Awards announced last week by the Literary Review, Arifa Akbar looks at the criteria for consideration and the judging process.

Tributes to Private John 'Jack' Howard, reveal a brave man known to his British mates as 'Kiwi'.

Actor-turned-writer David Walliams talks to Stephen Jewell about his third children’s book and the truth behind his anarchic tales for kids.