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All in the month of April Remembering Albert Einstein The genius of Madame Tussaud The paintings of JMW Turner Where did your Easter egg come from? London Marathon 2025 – Sunday 27th April Easter Events in your area Car signal jammers to be outlawed Penny killed off in the USA, but is saved in the...

It was: 250 years ago, on 18th April 1775 that American silversmith and folk hero Paul Revere made his famous midnight ride on horseback from Charleston to Lexington to warn residents that the British were about to attack. Also 250 years ago, on 23rd April 1775 that J M W Turner, the British artist was...

Seventy years ago this month, on 18th April 1955, Albert Einstein, the German-born theoretical physicist, died. Considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century, he is known especially for developing the special and general theories of relativity. He formulated possibly the best-known theory in the world – the special theory of relativity (including the...

Some 175 years ago, on 16th April 1850, Madame Marie Tussaud, a French artist known for her wax sculptures, died. She was the founder in 1835 of Madame Tussauds wax museum in London. Born Anna Maria Grosholtz, she was taught wax modelling in Paris by Philippe Curtius, from whom she inherited two wax museums. Imprisoned...

It was 250 years ago, on 23rd April 1775, that ground-breaking British artist J M W Turner was born. The London-born watercolourist and printmaker transformed the established methods of painting, sweeping aside classical preoccupations of form and order. Joseph Mallord William Turner, known in his time as William Turner, was a child prodigy born to...

Your Easter egg can be traced back to the early Church in Mesopotamia. Since ancient times, people had been giving each other eggs at pagan Spring festivals, as eggs were a symbol of the new life and rebirth in nature all around them. Then came Jesus and His death and resurrection, which made Easter the...

Last year’s London Marathon attracted more than 53,000 runners, which made it the world’s biggest annual one-day fund-raising event EVER. It also raised a world record-breaking amount of £73.5 million for charities. The route is 26.2 miles long. Greenwich and Blackheath is the starting point, and then the route takes in Woolwich, Greenwich, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey,...

Editor: Easter is a time when many community events take place. You may wish to consider contacting your local Tourist Information Office and including notice of some of these events in your magazine this month. 

Why would you need a device that scrambles the radio signal from a remote locking device on a modern car? Unless you wanted to steal it? Exactly. And so, the government is now banning the sale and even possession of such electronic devices. And not too soon, either, as the device is currently used in...

President Trump has ordered the US Treasury to stop minting one cent pennies. But Downing Street is standing firm: our 1p and 2p coins are not being phased out in Britain. In fact, no British coin has been scrapped since 1984, when the halfpenny was taken out of circulation. But there are some changes at...

All in the month of March Time for the Great Daffodil Appeal Liberty or death! A tribute to Alexander Fleming Remembering Dave Allen The Gulf of Mexico? Or America? The crisis in our A&E departments And still the potholes grow Watch out for house spiders – some can bite! The latest in flower fashion?  Go...

It was: 250 years ago, on 23rd March 1775 that Patrick Henry, a Founding Father of the United States, gave a famous speech at the Second Virginia Convention. He called for America’s independence from Britain, saying “Give me liberty or give me death!” 175 years ago, on 5th March 1850 that the Britannia Bridge linking...