Half price sale on rail tickets starts next week
A winter sale on rail tickets will start next week, with up to 50% off selected advance and off-peak rail tickets, through the Great British Rail Sale.

Tickets Alert: Hard hat tours of Copped Hall
Just outside the M25 on the edges of northeast London is a semi-derelict 18th-century country house, and they're offering tours of the building.

Single fares on London’s transport frozen, but travelcards to rise
There are mixed messages about transport fares in London this morning, as single fares on TfL-only services are frozen, but the travelcard caps will be increased.

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Watch the English Civil War Society marching along the Mall
If you hang around The Mall in central London on the last Sunday of the month, you'll see the remarkable sight of several hundred English Civil War reenactors marching along the road.

LNER train drivers to strike for five days in February
There will be a working week of strikes affecting LNER services next month, as the ASLEF union announced a strike by train drivers.

Dinosaurs are coming to east London for Easter
A host of life-sized animatronic dinosaurs and ice age creatures will arrive in east London for a couple of weeks over the Easter break, and there's an early bird offer on tickets.

Tickets Alert: Tours of the Sandhurst military academy
Not far outside London is Sandhurst, the British Army’s military training centre for officers, and the grand buildings hidden behind high walls can be visited on special tours.

Egg Whisk art outside Moorgate tube station
There's a giant egg-whisk outside Moorgate tube station, and it's art - musical art in fact.

Barons Court tube station is about to go green
About 25 years ago, Barons Court tube station in west London was painted the wrong colour, so it's about to get repainted the correct colour, as part of a larger set of heritage restoration works at the station.

Charles Holden exhibition offers a glimpse into the evolution of Senate House
One of the great "what ifs" of London's architecture is being explored at the moment, in a new exhibition about Charles Holden's plans for the University of London's Senate House.

London’s Pocket Parks: The Hartley Garden, SE1
This is an apparently private pocket park in Bermondsey that's open to the public, if you want to push on the gate and go inside.

See early examples of computer art at the V&A Museum
At a time when AI-generated art is in the news, the V&A Museum is taking a look back at the very earliest examples of pioneering computer generated art.

Memories in Monochrome: Barbican celebrates the impact of Two-Tone
When the Barbican was being built, a music genre was sweeping the country, and now the Barbican has an exhibition dedicated to the music that would have been heard while it was being built.

Delayed Beam Park station: Viability report expected this spring
The long-running saga over the future of Beam Park station in east London appears to be making some progress, and a report into its viability could be ready by the spring.

Visit the fields of tulips at Tullys Farm this Spring
If you fancy wandering through a field of colours this spring, a day trip to a farm near Gatwick Airport could be a suggestion, as it will be filled with tulips.

From jazz to surgery: English Heritage’s Blue Plaques will celebrate a record number of women in 2024
For the first time in the history of the London Blue Plaques Scheme, which has been running for more than 150 years, more plaques will be unveiled to individual women in 2024 than in any previous year.

Cycling improvements planned for Woolwich town centre
There could be new dedicated cycle lanes through central Woolwich in southeast London if a consultation comes out in favour of the improvements.

London’s Alleys: Old Brewery Mews, NW3
This is a Hampstead alley that gives away its history the moment you look at it, with a covered entrance proudly announcing a brewery was here.