She's already pondering a possible £150 million bill for repairs to crumbling Buckingham Palace. Now the Queen is having to splash out on another dilapidated home that has become entirely ill-suited ...

A bid to keep an enlarged racing pigeon loft built without permission near terraced homes in a Lancashire town's conservation area should be refused for heritage and privacy reasons, councillors are ...

For the uninitiated the world of the pigeon fancier conjures up an image of an old man in a flat cap, with the sport of racing the birds perhaps considered a pursuit for those of a certain vintage.