United Kingdom

Santa Pod is Europe's first permanent drag racing venue, and this aerial photo was taken on a race day. This site us a disused WW2 American Air base once called RAF Podington and it was here that Sammy Miller set…

Invasion of the fat planes! There's a really fat green plane at Heathrow (which looks a little like Thunderbird 2)... And at Hong Kong International, there's some sort of fat pink alien spacecraft! (Or these might be fire training aircraft…

The other day, Windows Live Local added high-resolution aerials of Edinburgh, and Alex and I promptly wasted hours and hours finding everything there was to see in our home city and arguing about the exact date the photos were taken.…

This is the Armadillo in Glasgow. Oh all right, it's really the Clyde Auditorium, but everyone calls it the Armadillo. It was designed to be a 3,000 seat extension to the boxy beige building to the north - the Scottish…

As reported by both the Google Earth Blog and Ogle Earth, Microsoft has provided an awesome update to the UK satellite imagery on their Live Local service. (I still can't work the zoom tool unfortunately, has anyone else noticed that…

Update: For anyone who watched the first episode, can I just say... Oh. My. God. I really do despair. Oh blimey. Is it that time of year again already? This year, they've gone and hidden 100 golden tickets in special…