Museums and Galleries Month 2005

Museums and Galleries Month is a good time to revisit some of your favourite museums and galleries or discover some new places. Museums and Galleries Month 2005 runs from 1 - 31 May. During May over 1,200 museums and galleries around the country hold special events, workshops and exhibitions.

Explore the unusual churches of Suffolk

For lovers of church architecture, the Eastern England county of Suffolk is a treasure-trove.Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Book charts maritime Britain attractions

Britain is an island nation, and is celebrating its maritime heritage this year through hundreds of ‘SeaBritain 2005’ events.Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Website a 'hit' for Beatles fans

The city of Liverpool, birthplace of the Beatles, has a new website dedicated to ensuring that fans make the most of their visitSaturday, May 28th, 2005

Walk London’s Olympic bid sites

On July 6 London will find out if it has won its bid to stage the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Residents and visitors to the capital are being encouraged to see the proposed sites with a new walking guide.Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Celebrating London’s eccentric characters

London is more than a city, it is a melting pot of peoples and characters.Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Days Inn - Welsh capital’s airport

A new hotel has opened half-a-mile from Cardiff International Airport in Wales.Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Chapel opens at Yorkshire hotel

A hotel near the coastal resort of Scarborough in North Yorkshire has opened a chapel in one of its public rooms.Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Around the world at new May Fair Spa

Visitors to a new spa in London are being encouraged to travel around the globe in a day with a package of some of the best treatments the world has to offer.Saturday, May 28th, 2005

Transformation of South Bank concert hall begins

New restaurants to open at the Royal Festival Hall in June will mark the first phase of a £91 million redevelopment of the concert hall on London’s South Bank. Wagamama, Strada and EAT are the first tenants for riverside retail spaces at ground level.Saturday, May 28th, 2005