Kingston Bridge is again widened to include two bicycle lanes, a bus lane and wider pavements

The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials

The Scottish Court in the Netherlands convicts a Libyan, Al-Megrahi, of responsibility for the Pan-Am Lockerbie bomb

Tony Blair leads Britain's Labour party in a second successive election victory, with a majority only marginally reduced from 179 to 167

Dial House becomes the home of the Bishop of Kensington

In his novel Atonement Ian McEwan follows the disasters resulting from a child's mistaken identity of a supposed rapist , through to the child's attempt, more than sixty years later, at atonement

InAusterlitz W.G. Sebald follows the painful quest of a Czech Jew, brought to England in 1939 on a Kindertransport, to discover the history of his immediate family

For the Queen's Jubilee Mark Edwards builds an eight-oared royal shallop, Jubilant, a replica of an eighteenth-century original owned by the National Maritime Museum

All Saints is converted into a private house

Mark Edwards builds a working version of a seventeenth-century wooden submarine, by Cornelius Jacobszoon Drebbel, which is rowed underwater in the BBC programme Building the Impossible

The west end of the Barn Church in Kew is redesigned by Keith Murray to accommodate the Darby Room (named after the vicar, Nicholas Darby), a gallery and ancillary facilities for community use

The Asgill House Beech receives a riverside plaque recording it as one of the Great Trees of London

The Public Records Office and the Historic Manuscripts Commission come together to form The National Archives

UK scientist David Kelly commits suicide, apparently for reasons linked with the Iraq War

The last three Concorde airliners to carry fare-paying passengers land within a space of five minutes at Heathrow

Ian Paisley's hard-line Democratic Unionist Party wins in elections to the suspended Northern Ireland Assembly

Permission is granted for 3 concerts a year at Twickenham rugby ground and the Rolling Stones play the first concert.

Mark Edwards builds replicas of the boats used in 1829 in the first Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, and the universities race them again over the original Henley course

The footbridge at Kew Gardens station is restored with the help of a Heritage Lottery Fund grant

Lord Hutton publishes his report into the circumstances leading up to the suicide of Dr David Kelly

The Governors of the Royal Star & Garter Home announce plans for it to be replaced by three new purpose-built care homes elsewhere in the UK, and the building is put up for sale

The National Physical Laboratory develops a new system of measuring time by bombarding a single strontium atom, frozen to -273C, with tiny packages of light

Armed robbers, suspected of links with the IRA, steal more than £25 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast

The Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles, subsequently to be known as the Duchess of Cornwall

Tony Blair wins the Labour party an unprecedented third successive term, but with a majority reduced from 167 to 66