Bertie Ahern and Alex Salmond are to address leading figures at the capital's first Lord Provost's banquet.

The Queen congratulates Slovenia at a state banquet on its transformation since independence.

A fire that destroyed a golf club building in Essex is believed to have been started deliberately.

A BBC London investigation discovers banqueting managers at one of the country's most prestigious hotels, the Dorchester, deducted money from service charges and added it to their own.

TV journalist Martin Bashir apologises for making a "tasteless" comment about Asian women at a banquet.

Visitors to Buckingham Palace will be able to see how guests are received at a state banquet for the first time.

An historic conference and banqueting venue is closed while roof repairs are carried out.

Number 10 says Gordon Brown was "doing what he was told" after apparently getting lost at the state banquet.

A council fails to find a new venue for a cinema after a conference, exhibition and banqueting centre closes.

Fifty curry restaurants are holding a charity banquet to raise funds for victims of the Bangladesh cyclone.

A conference, exhibition and banqueting centre in Cambridgeshire is to close for six months for essential repairs.

The Queen strongly defends the special relationship between Britain and the US at a White House banquet.

Some of the world's wealthiest gourmands will jet into Thailand, enticed by a galaxy of Michelin stars.

A banqueting suite and offices are destroyed in a blaze at a safari park.

The full transcript of Prime Minister Tony Blair foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London.

A renowned chef is forced to prepare a banquet on a ferry after his flight to Shetland is grounded.

At a packed banquet hall in the Israeli port town of Ashdod, the BBC's Martin Patience hears the Likud leader woo the voters.

The Queen describes the UK and Brazil as "good friends and allies" at a banquet to welcome the Brazilian president.

Chinese President Hu Jintao is greeted by a chorus of boos from hundreds of protesters as he arrives for a banquet London's Guildhall.

The Duchess of Cornwall wears her first royal tiara, loaned to her by the Queen, at her inaugural royal banquet.