Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out tickets now available from £10
Peppa Pig returns to the West End for a strictly limited run in Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out, and tickets are now available from £10 on selected performances.

Hampstead Observatory is reopening to the public
The Hampstead Observatory is one of the few observatories in London open to the public for viewing the night sky, and is reopening to the public following repairs to the building.

Finsbury Circus Gardens are to close for a year
The City of London's oldest and largest public park, Finsbury Circus Gardens, will close to the public later this month and won't open again until late next year.

RMT secures mandate for more tube strikes on the London Underground
Tube union, RMT says it has secured a further six-month mandate for strike action on London Underground, following a successful re-ballot.

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Win £5,000 of holidays in Landmark Trust’s heritage homes
A fundraiser for a heritage houses charity is offering up to £5,000 of free weekend breaks in its homes across the UK.

Elizabeth line has carried 250 million passenger journeys since it opened
Earlier this week, the Elizabeth line marked one year since it started direct services through central London from Reading, Heathrow and Shenfield, and has now carried over 250 million passengers since it opened in May 2022.

London’s Public Art: Mosaik, W1
Just around the corner from Bond Street, a covered passage recently gained a burst of colour in the form of a large public art mural.

It’s the 50th anniversary of the Beaujolais Nouveau Race
In 1973*, a journalist challenged his fellow writers to a race to be the first to bring a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau from France to his office in London, and thus was born the annual Beaujolais Run.

Gatwick Airport railway station upgrade reducing delays on the Brighton Main Line
Gatwick Airport railway station is about to get a new passenger entrance that will reduce train delays as far away as Cambridge, Bedford and Brighton -- because the new entrance will fix a major bottleneck on the railway.

Train companies and RMT breakthrough in rail strikes dispute
There appears to have been a breakthrough in the long running rail strikes, as the RMT union says that is putting a new offer to its members.

Christmas jumpers from London’s venues
Tis fast approaching the season to sit in front of your computer on a video call wearing nothing except a Christmas Jumper.

Tickets Alert: Steam engines back in action at the London Museum of Water and Steam
For the first time in nearly two years, the steam engines at the London Museum of Water & Steam will be turned on again.

Strike action on the buses in west London for the next few weeks
A number of bus routes in west London will be hit by several strikes between now and Christmas in a dispute with the Unite union.

There’s been an overnight rehearsal for the Lord Mayor’s Show
Early this morning, while the City slept, a golden coach was pulled through the streets of London as they rehearsed the Lord Mayor's Show ahead of the main event this Saturday.

HS2’s Colne Valley railway viaduct reaches construction halfway point
Construction of HS2's long Colne Valley railway viaduct in west London has reached the halfway mark, with the railway deck now assembled on 28 of the supporting piers.

London’s Pocket Parks: Abbey Gardens, E15
Next to the DLR in east London is a large community garden that sits on a partially excavated ancient monument.

St Pancras station’s Christmas tree is a spiralling tower of books
Hatchards, London’s oldest bookshop, has provided the annual crafted Christmas tree for St. Pancras International Station, in the style of a ziggurat tower of books.

Garrison Chapel exhibition blends traditional art with baffling description
An exhibition of modern interpretations of religious art manages to be both really enjoyable to look at and utterly baffling if you read the description.

Horizon 22 viewing gallery tickets are now being released daily
Tickets to visit London's highest viewing gallery were snapped up as soon as they were released, but some are now being released each morning for booking in advance.

The surprising story of steam trains on the Central line
When it opened in 1900, the deep tunnels of the Central line had to use electric trains because of the lack of ventilation for steam engines, but it's not that widely known that they did have steam trains, used in the tunnels.

Google Street View is coming to London Underground stations
You'll soon be able to use Google's street view to remotely wander around several major tube stations just as you can the streets of London.

Musicians to be given busking pitches in Elizabeth line stations
Musicians will be able to apply for busking spaces in Elizabeth line stations, as Transport for London (TfL) will be reopening its music audition process for the first time since before the pandemic.

City of London unveils its vision for 2030s skyscraper skyline
The ever changing skyline of the City of London will look very different by the end of the decade, as the City has released a vision of what the Square Mile will look like in 2030.

Hardly any trains out of King’s Cross station on Sunday 3rd December
A warning to travellers that there will be very few trains at King's Cross station on Sunday 3rd December because the railway north of London will be closed.

From portraits to drawings: The many aspects of David Hockney’s artistic career at the National Portrait Gallery
An exhibition of one artist's lifetime of work opens appropriately with two self-portraits of him as a young man and a recent one as a rather older man.

London’s Alleys: Church Path, SW14
This is the remains of a once much longer path that later lost its southern half and would once have linked two main roads running through Mortlake in south London

How many Beatles fans end up at the wrong Abbey Road?
Beatles fans looking for a famous zebra crossing need to go to Abbey Road in St John's Wood near Regents Park, but many accidentally end up at Abbey Road DLR station in east London by mistake.