High up in the St Paul's Cathedral 'Whispering Gallery' visitors are testing the theory behind the name, their mouths or ears pressed against the cool, old walls. Some are sensibly whispering and listening but others are missing the point...

It was opening night for the British Film Festival and I'd managed to blag a ticket to the premiere of Frost/Nixon, a film directed by Ron Howard of Happy Days fame....

Stepping inside Oxford's famous Christ Church College, I feel an immediate hush fall over the world as I imagine all of the amazing minds which have studied here....

It's really strange living in London because you can pick up a gossip magazine and see some major celebrity - like Jamie Oliver, Scarlett Johansson or Robert De Niro - photographed somewhere you've just been....