Tickets Alert: Tours of Eton College
Outside London, the rarified airs of Eton College are opening their doors to ordinary folk this summer for a series of tours.

A big tree made from little trees for the Platinum Jubilee
A 21-metre tall tree sculpture will appear outside Buckingham Palace this summer, made up from 350 smaller trees.

Half-price tickets to Doctor Who: Time Fracture
Doctor Who: Time Fracture is an immersive theatre event where you will be part of the show, and selected dates are offering half-price tickets.

London Underground sends first test trains through Bank station upgrade
Over the Easter weekend, Northern line trains made their first test trips through Bank tube station's new southbound platform.

London’s weekly railway news
A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news…

M&S Oxford Street store demolition put on hold
Plans by M&S to demolish its Oxford Street - Marble Arch store and replace it with a smaller store and more offices have been put on hold after the Communities Secretary Michael Gove called the scheme in for review.

TfL puts live travel updates on your smartphone homescreen
Transport for London (TfL) has updated its existing travel app to let people put live travel disruptions for tube lines onto their smartphone's home screen.

London Zoo to open late for adults only summer evenings
Later this summer, London Zoo will be having regular late-evening openings for adults only to enjoy the summer air surrounded by tigers and penguins, but not children.

A Day Trip to – Hythe and Dungeness
A seaside town that has a very long light railway to play on, a world famous ossuary in a church crypt to visit, and a few other things as well that easily fills a day out.

Tickets Alert: Visit the Reigate Caves
Underneath Reigate town centre is a series of large caves* that are usually open to the public for a few days during the summer.

See the Magnificent Maps of London
Maps are curious documents - they are often aesthetically pleasing to look at, and they convey useful information, but they are also often intensely political, defining boundaries and borders where power and ownership lay.

Florence Nightingale Museum reopening with Crimean War display
Just over a year after it was forced to close, possibly forever, the Florence Nightingale Museum has announced that it's able to reopen next month.

Unbuilt London: The Battersea Bullet train
In the late 1980s, there were plans to turn the empty hulk of Battersea Power Station into a huge theme park, and it was to come with its own high-speed rail link - the Battersea Bullet.

The RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show
Juicy black fruits wait to be plucked, while across the room seeds are sprouting, flowers blossom, and rot away into decay.

Campaign seeks to save Angel’s postmodern office block
A heritage group is campaigning against plans to partially demolish the distinctive brick and stone-clad office block that sits above Angel tube station.

Tours of the historic rooms in St Bartholomew’s Hospital
Although most of St Barts hospital near Barbican is a classic modern hospital building, as an ancient hospital, it also has ancient rooms, and these are now being opened up for regular tours.

Another attempt to resurrect the Watford to Croxley rail link
Although the planned extension of the Metropolitan line in Watford was cancelled in 2018, the local council has continued working on alternative plans that could see something built to improve local transport.

Tickets Alert: Early hours tours of the British Museum
The British Museum opens to the public at 10am, but they've resumed a little known tour that starts at 9am before the public gets inside.

Platinum Jubilee events in London
It's the decennial jubilee for the Queen this year, and lots of events are happening in London to mark the 70th anniversary of The Queen to the throne.

Crossrail’s predicted Elizabeth line journey times
When it opens, the Elizabeth line will not just substantially increase capacity on the tube network in Central London, for many people, it will make journeys a lot faster.

London’s Alleys: Durweston Mews, W1
This is a small back of flats courtyard mews that can be found just around the corner from Baker Street.