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Leaders prepare for TV debates
How are Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg preparing for the three live television debates that are set to dominate the general election campaign? |
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NHS funding homeopathy: Your views
BBC News website readers give their views on whether public money should be used to fund homeopathy |
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Fire crews rescue RNLI hovercraft
A RNLI hovercraft which became stuck on a sea defence is rescued by Essex fire crews. |
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Government win or an embarrassing U-turn?
MPs have voted for expenses reforms but delayed a decision on second homes allowances. Is this enough? |
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Right name, wrong place
How can holiday plans go so hideously wrong that people end up in the wrong country, or even the wrong continent? |
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Life is sweet
Work doesn't have to be a chore. Launching a series looking at dream children's jobs, Lucy Rodgers speaks to a professional chocolate taster. |
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Student grant firm to be axed
The firm that delivers the delay-hit education maintenance allowance is about to lose its contract. |
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A-level disappointment: What next?
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What is a typical British summer?
With another wet weekend ahead, the familiar grumbles about British summers have surfaced. But are we deluding ourselves that the should be any different, asks meteorologist Philip Eden. |
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The rise of single issue campaigns
Brian Wheeler looks at the rise of single issue campaign groups, and their relationship with politicians and parties. |
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Latest in office jargon revealed
A recruitment firm compiles a list of the UK's most cringeworthy workplace jargon. |
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Great expectations?
A Charles Dickens theme park opens in Kent soon, promising an authentic taste of the novelist's Victorian world. But is it wrong to "Disney-fy" the nation's greatest author? |
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Your 20 hidden tourist gems
Last week the Magazine compiled an alternative tourist map of the UK. We asked for your nominations - here are the best off-the-beaten track spots. |
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Ministers reveal 'respect zones'
The government announced 40 "respect zones" which will receive extra funding to fight anti-social behaviour. |
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The areas to get 'super-nannies'
The 77 areas in England that will receive a share of £4m of funding for "super-nannies" to try to improve parenting. |
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Only minority get hospital choice
The government's high-profile patient choice scheme is only being offered to three in 10 people, a survey shows. |
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Can you dig it?
Forget the flat caps, allotments are becoming fashionable among inner-city eco-warriors. So why the sudden urge to grow your own and, with constant demands for new land to build houses, how safe are our allotments? Sean Coughlan reports. |
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In full: English Local elections
Local elections |
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The battle for the 'King of Bling'
The protesters who have set up camp to battle a road-widening plan which they say will destroy the burial site of a Saxon king, the King of Bling. |
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When heroin was legal
As recently as the 1950s, heroin was a popular medicine prescribed by family doctors. But growing fears about the drug's addictiveness led to the start of it becoming criminalised, 50 years ago this week. |