A damning report on Cookham Wood YOI found that in some parts of the jail more than half of children were locked in cell during the school day (Getty Images) The rate of violent assaults on children ...

Archaeologists have discovered a long-lost royal site that played a key part in the rise of London as England’s dominant political and economic centre. Excavations in Berkshire are revealing how ...

Evidence of the "lost" monastery was uncovered at Holy Trinity Church in Cookham The site of an 8th Century monastery that was believed to have been lost has been unearthed next to a church. The exact ...

Cookham is a village and civil parish in the north-easternmost corner of Berkshire in England, on the River Thames, notable as the home of the artist Stanley Spencer Cookham is a village and civil ...

A Berkshire riverside village has been named as one of the best places to live in the UK. Cookham made it onto the prestigious Sunday Times' Best Place to Live list. Every year a team of expert Times' ...

Cookham – a historic and picturesque village on the Thames near London – is holding its long-awaited festival in May. The organizers promise a feast of music, drama, talks, comedy, workshops, ...

What's going for it? Are there any more bohemians left in Cookham? The odd wild-haired potter down a wisteria-draped lane? Readers of The Wind In The Willows will detect Kenneth Grahame's disdain of ...

The village is a quintessentially British area, with beautiful Tudor-looking houses and plenty of pubs and tea rooms. Whilst growing up in Berkshire, Rosenthal loved to play cricket and was a key ...

He was one of the most inspirational artists of the 20th century, a visionary who painted real village folk in grandiose biblical scenes, and the creator of the most important artistic first world war ...