5 d. ago Murder in a manor house with secrets to hide: The best Classic Crimes novels out now

Barry Turner reviews the best Classic Crime novels out now

Events

6 d. ago Downton Abbey star Elizabeth McGovern admits she is 'over' the hit ITV series and confesses how she felt filming without the late Maggie Smith

Downton Abbey actress Elizabeth McGovern has said she is 'ready to move on' and leave the manor house behind, ahead of its final movie.

Culture

1 week ago Girl, 14, arrested on suspicion of arson after manor house blaze

Merseyside Police said the fire at Woolton Hall, Liverpool, on Tuesday ‘appears to have been an extremely reckless act’.

Events

2 w. ago Elizabeth Bennet's manor house from BBC Pride and Prejudice on sale for £4million

The property was the family home in the 1995 BBC adaptation of the Jane Austen classic novel

Economics

2 w. ago EXPOSED: Cotswolds elite who snort cocaine with their teens. They chop lines in their manor houses and think no one can touch them. I've had enough says DEBBIE SCOTT... this is the squalid truth

My husband and I stare at our 18-year-old son with our mouths open. 'To be honest, you two are the odd ones out. Everyone does drugs these days,' he tells us.

Politics

2 w. ago Heatwave reveals 'ghost' buildings at historic properties: Parch marks of long lost hall and buried wall show up in grounds of abbey and manor house

The marks in the grounds of Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire and Mottisfont in Hampshire give a view of both the foundations of a lost hall and the remains of walls.

Society

2 w. ago Materialists review – Dakota Johnson torn between Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans in charming romcom

Johnson plays a matchmaker who has to choose between wealthy new suitor Pascal and broke ex Evans, but the outcome feels a little undramaticSay you are a single woman in New York and you are, in the words of the song, torn between two lovers: two handsome, intelligent, nice guys – one very poor and one very rich. All things being equal, who do you go for? The answer in real life is very different, in fact diametrically opposed, to the answer in a film. Few movie heroines have the candour of Jane Austen’s Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, who admitted to falling in love with Mr Darcy on seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.But this is the choice, which never quite ascends to the state of a dilemma, in this charming and watchable – yet for me somehow anticlimactic – romantic comedy-drama from South Korean-Canadian film-maker Celine Song: a love-triangle confection to follow the much realer, truer love triangle of Song’s much acclaimed debut Past Lives. When the decision is...

Politics

3 w. ago JD Vance's Beast of the Cotswolds: Countryside in lockdown as US Vice President arrives in tiny hamlet with Secret Service convoy amid huge security operation

Police have closed off all roads and paths leading to the hamlet of Dean, where the US Vice President is staying with his family at Dean Manor, an 18th-century country house.

Politics

3 w. ago Cotswolds in lockdown as JD Vance's holiday begins: Vice President arrives in tiny hamlet amid huge security operation after enjoying private tour of Hampton Court Palace

Police have closed off all roads and paths leading to the hamlet of Dean, where the US Vice President is staying with his family at Dean Manor, an 18th-century country house.

Events

3 w. ago 17th century manor house on sale for £150k but there's a catch

The Grade II-listed property has six bedrooms

Economics

3 w. ago Ab Fab and Bottom stars Jennifer Saunders and Adrian Edmondson face fresh planning battle over £250k extension to their £2m Dartmoor home

The Absolutely Fabulous and Bottom stars are planning to move to their £2million country manor house in Dartmoor National Park full time as they scale down their work commitments in London.

Events

3 w. ago 'Sorry for the circus!' Owner of the manor house in the 'Hamptons of the UK' apologises to neighbours over JD Vance's stay

As part of his 'MAGA summer' holiday, the US vice-president is set to make a visit to the Grade II-listed property, accompanied by his wife Usha and children Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel.

Politics