The go-ahead has now been given by the Welsh Government in order for developer Igloo Regeneration to commence work on a new business complex to be built on derelict areas of the The Port Of Cardiff. Part of the area is planned to become a new BBC Drama Village, which will encompass new studios and offices for the Corporation, most likely leading to the transfer of Doctor Who and its spin-offs there from BBC Studios when the lease on the building runs out.

The proposed site has been used for filming for Doctor Who in the past, so sadly some more locations are likely to become ghosts of the past!

The BBC have released a trailer for the 2010 series of Doctor Who - watch out for the various locations we've seen them film at so far this production!

In what's become a regular event, the Doctor Who production crew have departed from the UK to more exotic locations, this time Croatia! They are expected to be there for a fortnight, and are initially near the town of Trogir.

Some early location reports have beeen posted locally in Trogir (you'll need to translate them though!): Report One and Report Two

There have been some disk issues on the webserver this last week that has forced the site offline, apologies our 'disappearance' for a bit. Hopefully the problem has been resolved, though it is possible it might crash again. Sorry for the problems.

The albums are now able to support embedded media; this means that we can now also include items like videos within the pages as well as normal photos. This is primarily so that, rather than having to create lots additional links on the locations pages for each video referenced, we can now associate them together in one album. Please note that these are merely links to external sources such as YouTube rather than kept locally so their links might break.

The album/photo display for videos is still being developed, so there may be some 'broken' pictures for them in some listings, so no need to worry if it doesn't appear, the video should still play perfectly on the page itself!

Due to the increasing number of photos on some album pages - especially for film reports(!) - I have now implemented a paging system. This should hopefully make pages load a little faster!

The latest special from DWM will be released tomorrow (or in subscribers' hands already!), and covers the first two series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. Following the successful format of the previous Doctor Who Series Companions, this issue provides a day-by-day breakdown of the production of each story from conception to broadcast.

For us location enthusiasts, the issue provides information on the where and the when of filming, though sadly there isn't a handy production details summary for each story this time around.

Just a quick note: we do get enquiries about why the listings on this site don't always match those in publications such as the Companion guides. As our primary purpose is to provide comparisons between filming and the modern-day look of locations we base our entries on the current names for a place and also upon visual evidence taken when visited; hence we may list additional locations to those in publications where they've been identified (for example, Plassey Street within Invasion of the Bane was used for a sequence of Sarah Jane driving her car which falls under the more generic Glebe Street shoot in documentation.)

Filming has started in Llandaff this week, with the production team currently working in the Green's The White House; being an internal shoot it is unlikely that any action will be seen, though the usual to-ings and fro-ings of production staff can be caught - Alun Vega was able to capture some of today's activities, which indicate that filming has finally started on episode one.

Filming will be moving out onto the Green itself from the 5th October, and expected to continue until the 8th. The shoot has caused some consternation amongst local businesses, however, as reported by the South Wales Echo.

The current edition of the BBC's "Saving Britain's Past" is all about "Big Pit" in Blaenavon, South Wales, and how it became a museum after closing down in 1980. An interesting bit of modern history from a location that featured in pirateplanet back in 1978, not long before it closed.

Available on BBC's iplayer service, which may not be accessible outside the United Kingdom.