Some of the best artists from Warwickshire will have their works brought together in one special show this winter for the Rugby Open 2009.

Community Safety Wardens have been handing out simple door alarms to some of Rugby's most vulnerable people to help them stay safe as the nights draw in.

The summer housing boom has helped Northern Rock cut the number of repossessed homes on its books

The surge in potential homebuyers which has boosted the property market is slowing in the face of higher house prices, according to the latest Hometrack report

Hard-up homeowners who have fallen into arrears on sub-prime mortgages are being forced to pay up large lump sums by lenders, or risk repossession

Local Liberal Democrat MP, Paul Burstow, is organising a meeting between local traders and London Mayor, Boris Johnson, to lobby for a common sense approach to red route enforcement.

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has created a new programme for community-led renewable energy projects, the Communities Renewable Energy Support Programme (CRESP).

Revenue & Customs has asked me to provide property particulars for a house I bought 28 years ago but the records are long gone. Is this a reasonable request?

The UK Government will produce 'model contracts' to be used in copyright dealings in an attempt to make copyright law more useful and understandable. It will also standardise the way copyright exceptions to copyright law are dealt with in contracts.

The stakes are high. On one side are the internet pirates who are offering digital copies of the latest bestsellers such as Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol for free. On the other are the authors and publishers who are determined

Are you sitting comfortably? Then let's begin. Britain is to have its first laureate for storytelling. Taffy Thomas has been waxing lyrical, spinning yarns, telling tall tales and holding children and adults spellbound with his repertoire of 300 stories culled

US publishing giant Scholastic has insisted that it "does not censor books" in the wake of a fierce row over US children's author Lauren Myracle, who was asked to rewrite her latest book Luv Ya Bunches to remove "offensive" language

The IMPAC longlist, announced November 2nd, is the most exciting in the â ¬100,000 award's history

An award-winning playwright who has written some of television's most popular dramas was sent on a course by the BBC to understand how to portray "goodies" and "baddies"

Author Yann Martel is to follow his Booker Prize-winning novel Life of Pi with another story focusing on animals.

Chinese poet Li Shizheng, who writes under the pen-name Duo Duo (which is even prettier in Chinese: ), has been named the winner of the estimable Neustadt International Prize for Literature for 2010

Norway's Consumer Council reckons the Kindle breaches Norwegian law, and will have to change radically before any local launch.

As promised, its a very wet start to the day across most of Britain and Ireland as a deepening low sweeps north-eastwards. Heavy rain and strengthening winds are making for a very unpleasant morning in many areas, and we have

Cambridge MP David Howarth has met pupils at Chesterton Community College who have become the city's first qualified CyberMentors to help beat bullying.

A national campaign to stop adults with autism being written-off by the employment and benefits system has been backed by Cambridge MP David Howarth.