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Magnolia painted walls, conservatories, and living near a good catchment area are all old hat when it comes to what modern Brits look for in a potential new home.

TOM UTLEY: A new survey has found that as many as four in ten young Britons have no idea about the origins of Bonfire Night, with many believing Guy Fawkes is the inventor of fireworks.

The best known of the Bard's 154 sonnets, 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day' came top in a poll with 18 per cent of the vote of a nationwide UK survey.

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 tops UK-wide vote, with the 400-year-old work beating a host of unexpected 21st-century choices

Insights agency Perspectus Global recently surveyed 2,000 British people about the mispronunciations they found most irritating. Top came “pacifically” when they meant “specifically” followed by “probly” instead of “probably”. "Artick" for Arctic and "expresso" for espresso were also hated mispronunciations. Here’s some local place names people keep saying all wrong. Magdalen College Wrong: Mag-duh-lin Right: Maud-lin. College president Anthony Smith explained to the Oxford Mail in 1999: “In the late Middle Ages when this college was built she was a great saint...