How to visit a virtual grave

A digital photography project allows families to see the final resting place of relatives who died in battle for the first time

Arts cuts: D-day in Somerset

Today, arts groups in Somerset will find out if the council's proposed 100% cut to their grants will go ahead. Could the rest of the country follow? Laura Barnett reports

Film my school: despicable us

A winning group of year 5 pupils in Hampshire made a movie about taking over their school, with a scary new headteacher …

The scariest building in Britain?

Is the Royal Masonic School for Boys the scariest building in Britain? As Halloween looms, Jonathan Glancey visits the school adored by film-makers that's being turned into luxury flats

Melinda Gates: gods with chequebooks

She can change lives with her vast fortune. But as one half of the world's richest private foundation, just doling out the cash is not enough – empathy counts too. So what's it like being …

Online dictionaries: which is best?

The new edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will be online-only. Many of its rivals – Collins, Chambers et al - have already launched free web versions. But which one is the wordsmith's best friend?