Woking's attractions include The Lightbox museum and gallery, a Martian tripod sculpture (HG Wells' The War of the Worlds was written in the town) and the McLaren headquarters. Woking FC play in ...

Rushing back to his home in Brooklyn, Tom Cruise bundles his children into his car. The Martian tripods can be seen zapping everything in their wake. In Wells’s novel, the frightened priest asks: ‘Why ...

Who needs a tripod, in these days of in-body and optical image stabilization? Well, you can count me in for one. I think a tripod is as useful nowadays as it’s ever been. For long exposures capturing ...

Conventional full-sized tripods tend to be big, heavy, and unwieldy – so I often leave mine at home, making it completely useless. By contrast, the best travel tripods literally take a load off.