New Europeans 'prop up rural UK'
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Eastern Europeans are becoming the mainstay of hard-to-fill jobs in Britain's rural areas, research suggests.
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Travel: The island's farmhouses are being converted into stylish rural hotels and October is the perfect time to explore them, writes Iain Stewart .
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Pro-hunt protesters who invaded Parliament believed they were defending a way of life. Mark Townsend takes the temperature of rural Britain, and finds it raging.
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It was held up by politicians two  years ago as a model for economic revival for others in Europe.  Now England's northeast is a frontline for the impact of a  credit crisis that began in California.
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By Anna Lognonne  Farmers in the region are depending on subsidies for their survival, according to new research from rural business advisers.
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The picturesque territory of Wales in the United Kingdom is stepping up efforts to become a high-tech region that can compete with China, India, and Russia in the outsourcing market.
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Britons and other expats in Spain win council seats in local elections, putting new parties on the political map.
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Â· East Europeans 'pose integration challenge'Â· Councils urged to rethink strategies on diversity
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One in 10 British citizens may now live overseas, according to a study of people coming in and out of the UK.
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Comment is free: Darra Singh: Britain continues to grow more diverse. So cohesion is everyone's business.
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CRAGs, or Carbon Rationing Action Groups are slowly springing up across Britain, with about 160 people active in some 20 groups, low-carbon living trends are growing.
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The number of Britons who own a second home abroad has nearly doubled in the last two years and now stands at three percent of the population.
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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Michigan  - For Americans, there  is no place quite like home. Europeans, however, always seem to  enjoy the challenge of foreign lands.
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Britain draws big economic benefits from an influx of migrant workers, particularly from eastern Europe, according to a report published by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).
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By Steve Dube  Farms in Monmouthshire, Brecon and Glamorgan are opening their gates next month when the British Grassland Society holds its annual summer meeting in South-East Wales.
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By BRIAN DONNELLY  WITH the promise of cheap land, it might just be a steppe in the right direction for adventurous Scottish farmers.
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Stereotypes about the "grim" north of England are starting to look very passe, given the boom currently sweeping the north-west. Agovernment survey suggests that Manchester and Liverpool are the UK's ...