A search is under way to find a site for a memorial to a well-known Cambridge fundraiser.

The BBC's Matthew Collin reports on the fight to save the stunning, eccentric structures that make up the Georgian capital's Old Town.

The 60-year-old singer entertains a sell-out crowd with her eccentric behaviour and many wardrobe changes.

With his distinctive rhythm, and eccentric format, Bo Diddley was a major influence on the history of rhythm and blues.

US special services are expected to question an "eccentric" pilot who landed near President Bush's ranch.

Controversial former world chess legend Bobby Fischer, famous for a Cold War showdown, has died aged 64.

A judge rules that a written promise by an eccentric to leave property to two caring friends is not legally binding.

From penniless obscurity to recognition 250 years after his birth as one of the greatest Britons, how did a mystical outsider like William Blake win a place in our hearts?

A Belfast-based company with links to an eccentric millionaire movie maker is creating 50 new jobs.

A town known for its eccentric events hosts a music tribute in memory of one of its regular visitors, Screaming Lord Sutch.

Celebrations take place in East Sussex to commemorate the 205th anniversary of one of its most eccentric residents.

An exhibition celebrating the life and work of a gardener who lived for years in a shed, is opening.

Harry Enfield is to play Dirk Gently, the eccentric detective created by author Douglas Adams, in a BBC Radio 4 series.

A gun dealer specialising in antique firearms has been acquitted of selling deadly weapons which ended up on Britain's streets.

An eccentric Somerset baronet thinks he may have found an heir to his £7.5m mansion in an American rock star.

BBC News speaks to a number of ex-students of Dartington College of Arts about their time there.

A couple from the Isle of Wight have re-built an old Land Rover and turned it into a replica of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Journalist Dave Gilbert is hanging up his hat after 13 years working in online news - much of it with the BBC website. But before he goes, he can't help but marvel at how the net has gone from an eccentric side project to being at the heart of all modern newsrooms.

At 74, Peter O'Toole has been Oscar-nominated for a role as a lecherous old man lusting after a teenage girl in Venus: another eccentric role for an eccentric actor.

His visits with eccentric celebrities have made Louis Theroux an authority on weirdness. But here, writing for the Magazine, he says his time off from TV has made him ask whether weird is just in the eye of the beholder.