stately home

The BBC has tracked fighting kennels to unlikely places in the UK – from a busy housing estate to the grounds of a stately home.

Executive producer Karen Wilson said the team travelled the "length and breadth of Ireland and the UK" before ending up in the North West, which had "stately homes and Dublin-style streets".

It may be a stately home but through the years it's been known to throw one hell of a party, especially on 4 July, America's Independence Day.

The grounds of a Georgian stately home in Essex will host the BBC radio station's flagship event, which has been an annual fixture since 2011.

A former US filmmaker has launched a High Court battle against an English council to gain control of the ancestral stately home he spent seven years trying to save from ruin.