27.08.2008 21:00 Picture the scene. It's 1990 and a bunch of guys who happen to drive Mini Coopers are watching the 1969 Michael Caine classic, "The Italian Job", on the telly. As...
26.08.2008 08:00 ...And this time the drinks are free. Thursday night, August 28, the Edinburgh Art Festival joins the Edinburgh Festival spirit with Art Late, a series of parties and...
24.08.2008 19:00 Have you ever noticed that when you are all alone, watching television or a DVD, the funniest comedy falls flat? Even if it raises a smile, something that might have...
23.08.2008 06:00 The Edinburgh Fringe Festival ends on Bank Holiday Monday (August 25), so give or take the odd extra performance, it will all be over until next year in a...
21.08.2008 17:00 You may think that June is a long way off, but if you're thinking about attending Rock Ness, now is the time to snap up early bird tickets for...
18.08.2008 14:00 Althorp House, Princess Diana's birthplace and the site of her grave, closes for the season on August 30 this year. But if you miss the summer opening there's still a...
17.08.2008 01:00 Consider coming with only carry-on luggage if you are arriving in the UK Bank Holiday Monday, August 25, through Gatwick or Stansted airports. Unions representing more than...
15.08.2008 12:00 You can't get far without finding that the credit crunch is having an impact and nobody is terribly surprised that the credit crunch is squeezing ticket sales at this year's...
15.08.2008 12:00 Dust off the family heirlooms - BBC One's Antiques Road Show is coming to town. Dundee, in Scotland, will host the popular television program on September 4, at Caird Hall....
13.08.2008 17:00 Did you know that About.com, our information network, has more than 70 other travel sites, focusing on everything from specific destinations - Mexico, The Southeast USA, New England, Eastern Europe,...
12.08.2008 04:00 September is Scottish Archaeology Month. Throughout September, and throughout Scotland, an exciting range of free archaeology related events is scheduled. Take part in a dig, try your hand at ancient...
10.08.2008 15:00 Liverpool, home of the International Slavery Museum , will mark Slavery Remembrance Day on August 23 with a series of events, including church services, lectures a Remembrance Day Rap, cultural...
09.08.2008 02:00 If you are fond of chilli, head over to the Waddesdon Plant Centre at Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire on Saturday or Sunday, August 30 and 31 for the second...
05.08.2008 23:00 Tutankhamum and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs, the knock out exhibition of Egyptian treasures at London's O2 Bubble has a few more weeks to run and tickets are still...
04.08.2008 03:00 Of the 929 boats racing yesterday, 775 finished and 24 retired. For another year, the Cowes Week opening day turned the Solent white with sails. Whether you are a sailor or...
02.08.2008 12:00 It was a natural recipe for disaster and chaos - a huge festival with more than 30,000 performances at hundreds of different venues gazillions of people, arriving from all over the world...
02.08.2008 12:00 As the Edinburgh Comedy Festival kicked off today, the word circulating among the comic fraternity is that they'll miss President Bush when he goes. Several comedians interviewed on this morning's...
30.07.2008 10:00 It seems hard to believe that controversial British artist Tracey Emin has been around long enough to have a retrospective. But the international splash created by her Unmade Bed was...
28.07.2008 21:00 August is festival month in Edinburgh and, while the big noise is the Edinburgh Fringe Festival you can still take a time out now and then to contemplate other art...