London’s outdoor ice skating rinks for winter 2024-2025
Winter is coming, and so are the pop-up ice rinks that populate the city each winter, offering people opportunities to repeatedly fall over and go home with sore bums and dented pride.

Foreign embassy congestion charge debt to TfL now exceeds £150 million
The latest list of outstanding congestion charge payments owed by overseas embassies based in London has reached £152 million as of September 2024, up from £143 million a year ago.

TfL to open consultation on Pedicab regulations early next year
Regulations to control the use of Pedicabs in London will go out to public consultation early next year, following law changes that allow Transport for London (TfL) to regulate their use.

London’s weekly railway news
This is a weekly round-up of London's rail transport news...

Look out for GWR trains being diverted to Euston station on Sunday
This is something for train nerds to look out for, as this weekend will see the first of many weekends of engineering works that will see GWR trains diverted to Euston station.

Tickets Alert: Tweed Run 2025 tickets on sale now
Fancy a charming jaunt around the sights of London in a decorous style becoming of the Edwardian upper middle classes?

Euston Station deteriorates to the point of needing bands to hold its columns together
Euston station is back in the news after the Rail Minister, Lord Hendy, admitted that it had deteriorated to the point that temporary bands had to be placed around the columns holding the roof up to stop its marble cladding from falling off.

There’s a field of glowing roses in Central London
Grosvenor Square in central London is home to a field of glowing roses, as a charity fundraiser for the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.

British Museum receives £1 billion donation of Chinese ceramics
A collection of Chinese ceramics worth around £1 billion, considered to be the most significant of its type outside China, has been donated to the British Museum.

Pay a visit to Kensington’s magical Gnome Land
If you wander along a back road just off Kensington High Street, you'll stumble upon a new housing development -- Gnome Land.

Farringdon’s St John Street could Become pedestrian-friendly in Islington Council plans
A section of historic St John Street near Farringdon station could be partially pedestrianised until plans are submitted by Islington Council.

NHS using drones to fly blood tests between Southwark hospitals
A few weeks ago, a mysterious air traffic corridor restricting unauthorised aircraft appeared over Southwark, but it's now been revealed that it's an air-highway being used by flying drones to move blood samples between two hospitals.

Tickets Alert: Royal Hospital Chelsea winter lights light
The Christopher Wren designed Royal Hospital Chelsea, famously home to the Chelsea Pensioners, is opening its grounds this winter for a nighttime light trail.

Elizabeth Line success spurs call for eastward extension – but western reliability needs work
MPs have called for the Elizabeth line to be extended further east towards Ebbsfleet while warning that reliability needs to be improved at the western end of the line.

Liverpool Street station’s trainshed to see daylight as £22 million roof renewal begins
Liverpool Street station's gloomy trainshed is about to see daylight, as Network Rail is about to clean and repair the roof.

A stacked slate surprise – the story behind a wave-patterned wall
A side street just behind Buckingham Palace has a very unusual wall made entirely from stacks of slate.

Tim Burton tie-in window display at Harvey Nicks
As part of the Design Museum's ongoing Tim Burton exhibition, there's a small tie-in window display at Knightsbridge's Harvey Nichols department store.

Shake ‘n Vac to Power Suits: How women’s roles in advertising changed through the decades
From doing the shake 'n vac to suggestively eating a Flake chocolate, a new exhibition looks at advertising for, by and about women.

The year that Bond Street was nearly renamed Bond Street
It's 1923, and central London's famously posh shopping street, Bond Street, is about to be renamed... Bond Street.

TfL resumes 60+ photocard applications following its recent cyber hack
Transport for London (TfL) has expanded the range of photocard applications it can accept as it restores services following the recent cyber attack on them.

Thamesmead’s £23 million rapid bus service set for public consultation in early 2025
Plans for a rapid bus network linking Thamesmead in southeast London to its nearest railway stations are likely to be put out for public consultation early next year.

Exhibition shows off the shortlisted designs to improve Clapham Junction’s road tunnel
The shortlisted designs to improve the road tunnel under Clapham Junction railway station have been displayed for public comment before a final winner is chosen.

Rare surviving section of Roman road discovered during south London excavation
Construction workers working on the Old Kent Road have discovered a fully preserved section of a 2,000-year-old Roman road in Southwark.

A stitch in time: Exhibition highlights 140 years of nurses’ uniforms and the stories behind them
A former hospital chapel has been filled with nurses' uniforms, showing how they changed over a century from stern Victorian attire to relaxed styles used during the pandemic.

London’s Alleys: Shepherds Place, W1
This is a posh looking alley in Mayfair that has been around since the area developed some 300 years ago, and was likely originally provided access to the stables behind a row of grander houses.