The Absolutely Fabulous movie is officially happening with filming beginning in London on October 12. Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley will return in their iconic roles as Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone, along with the rest of their original cast.

In World War Two Britain needed Japanese speakers. And it needed them quick.

British design firm turns Land Rover's mild-mannered Dr Jekyll into a 500hp, six-wheel-drive, $310,000 monster.

Nothing lasts forever, even for concrete.

There are thousands of miles of dry stone walls on the UK, dating back hundreds of years. Just how do they last for so long?

Australia all out for 60 in 18.3 overs, 1st innings

The challenge: replace a standard skinny ladder leading up to an unfinished attic with working stairs ... but they must be able to wrap within the same limited confines of a tiny landing. The solution: an elegant folded sheet of steel.

It looks like a cross between an electric circuit diagram and a Mondrian painting – but the London Underground map also revolutionised design. Jonathan Glancey travels back in time.

Photo taken by Jeremy Walker and featured in The Telegraph.

More than a century of fires, storms and declining tourism has put these beloved, British icons at risk, turning them from seaside hotspots to haunting reminders of a bygone era.

The 376-foot tall ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London will soon be home to the world's longest and tallest slide.

From the ashes of such sporting marques as Triumph, Austin-Healey and Tornado, a new generation of car company is rising in the UK.

Images show empty seats on roller coasters and deserted floats on the wet rides at the Staffordshire attraction.

Ben Freeman, organiser of London event, says: ‘Everyone realises the internet hasn’t killed the record industry or the publishing industry – just changed it’. A fair celebrating the future of physical objects in media – from books and magazines to records and cassettes – will debut in London this autumn, demonstrating that print is anything but dead.

George Osborne is under pressure to reveal if he held a private meeting with Rupert Murdoch days before the Treasury imposed a £650m budget cut on the BBC.

More and more burnt-out Londoners are embracing the laid-back cool – and much lower cost of living – of the German capital

Crane operators spend their days alone in a tiny cab… after a spine-tingling climb into the sky. What is their day – and commute – really like? We gave a driver a GoPro to find out.

Dissenting British minister Joseph Priestly, author of Observations on Civil Liberty and the Nature and Justice of the War with America, discovers oxygen while serving as a tutor to the sons of American sympathizer William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, at Bowood House in Wiltshire, England.

Russian President Vladimir Putin "personally ordered" the killing of Alexander Litvinenko, the inquiry into the former spy's death has heard. Ben Emmerson QC, for Mr Litvinenko's family, said in his closing statement that Russian state responsibility had been proven "beyond reasonable doubt".