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The Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool is shrugging off it's old image

Rating: 4

February 4th 2012

Fifteen years ago a BBC documentary gave Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel celebrity status – for all the wrong reasons. What’s it like today? Mark Gilligan finds out

Free Village Market Event: Saturday, March 3

Rating: 0

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February 2nd 2012

Do you hold a regular market in your community building or are you interested in starting one?

Take an Olympic ride at Lee Valley

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February 1st 2012

The Lee Valley White Water Centre is now open for its spring season, ahead of the 2012 Games. Don’t miss your chance to give it a go before the athletes do!

Olympics countdown: Paralympic soldier Nick Beighton's incredible story

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January 29th 2012

If you were putting together a modern day superhero, Nick Beighton from Shrewsbury would tick all the boxes ...

The Queen: Diamond days ahead

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January 28th 2012

Sixty one years ago exactly on February 6, in a remote part of Kenya, the young Princess Elizabeth received the news of her father’s death. The tour was abandoned, and Elizabeth flew back to Britain as its Queen ...

Recharge your car at County Hall

Rating: 0

January 27th 2012

Hertfordshire County Council has installed free electric vehicle charging points at County Hall in Hertford.

Bank House Farm, Glaisdale - Bunk Barn in the North York Moors

Rating: 3

January 26th 2012

Sell up, sell out or change direction. That was the dilemma facing North York Moors farmer Emma Padmore, as she explains

Daytrips to paradise - Childhood memories of Ainsdale

Rating: 3

January 25th 2012

Lancastrian Jean Hill shares her childhood memories of fun with family and friends on Ainsdale beach

Herefordshire's Jubilee celebrations

Rating: 3

January 20th 2012

Herefordshire’s celebrations marking the Queen’s 60 years on the throne will have a nautical flavour, says Sharon Chilcott

Looking for Hertfordshire’s Everyday Heroes

Rating: 3

January 20th 2012

Hertfordshire County Council has kicked off the 'Everyday Heroes' campaign, looking to recruit up to 200 flexible support workers.

Queen's Diamond Jubilee

Rating: 3

January 18th 2012

Sharon Chilcott opens our series celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee

Miners remembered - recalling the New Hartley mining disaster

Rating: 3

January 16th 2012

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the New Hartley mining disaster which remains one of the worst in British history. Eddie Graham reports

The Billiard & Snooker Heritage Collection in Thurston racks up 50 years

Rating: 3

January 13th 2012

A Liverpool museum has been putting sporting memorabilia in the frame for almost 50 years, as Ray D’Arcy reports

Join the stargazers in Letchworth

Rating: 2

January 13th 2012

Stargazing Live returns to the BBC on January 16, 17 and 18 featuring Brian Cox and Dara O’Briain – and events have been organised in Letchworth to coincide with the programme.

My dorset Farm

Rating: 2

January 6th 2012

In the first of a new series focusing on Dorset’s farmers, we meet George Hosford from Travellers Rest Farm, near Blandford, who is using his hedges as wildlife corridors

A Strathspey for Hogmanay

Rating: 3

January 4th 2012

Start the New Year off with a jig and a spot of Scottish Country Dancing around the county.

St Albans club display their talent to the world

Rating: 2

January 3rd 2012

Members of a St Albans modelling club are proudly looking forward to showcasing their work at a prestigious exhibition in London.

New Beginnings

Rating: 2

January 3rd 2012

For some of Ilminster’s inhabitants, the arrival of 2012 heralds new beginnings. And there’s an exciting year ahead with the town playing its part in the Olympic celebrations.

Regeneration of Chard

Rating: 3

January 3rd 2012

The people of Chard are helping to create a new look and a bright new future for their town

Cossington and the VMCC

Rating: 3

January 3rd 2012

Members of the Vintage Motorcycle Club in Somerset say a new state-of-the-art village hall is a building to be proud of