Telling people about Kagyu Samye Ling Tibetan Monastery and Buddhist Centre is one of those things I can always rely on to make them look at me as though I've finally lost the plot. Not in a million years would it occur to anyone that there might be an authentic Tibetan Buddhist retreat hidden away in the lowlands of Scotland rather than perched precariously with several goats on a mountaintop in the Himalayas - but the more you think about it, the more obvious i...

I once saw a program on TV about this station. It was one of those real life police shows where they follow the cases of detectives in the metropolitan police. In this episode, an undercover vice squad officer had arranged to meet a drug pusher under the clock at Liverpool Street Station. With him were a concealed camera unit and the place was surrounded by undercover police. At the appointed time, the pusher didn't turn up, so they waited a little longer. After...