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Tickets Alert: Walk along the bottom of an empty canal Next month, one of East London's canals will be drained for repairs to be carried out, and you can walk along the bottom of it.
Discounted tickets for Death Drop: A Dragatha Christie Murder-Mystery Death Drop is serving you whodunnit, Agatha Christie-realness with a killer cast of drag queen favourites and endless belly laughs.
Soho’s Harry Potter emporium – the House of MinaLima The two artists that were heavily responsible for the graphic style of the Harry Potter movies have a shop in Soho, and it's a Harry Potter world come alive.
One night only – electronic music at the London Coliseum For one night in March, the nightclub, Fabric and the English National Opera will be bringing live electronic music to the London Coliseum.
Camden Market offering unlimited meals for £5 each For the next couple of weeks, it's possible to eat at Camden Market's many food outlets for £5 per dish.
London’s weekly railway news A weekly round-up of London's rail transport news…
HS2 testing building piles that can suck heat out of the ground A test is being carried out by an HS2 contractor that could see heat being extracted out of the ground to heat buildings and railway stations.
Tours of Aldwych’s disused tube station resume The disused London Underground station at Aldwych is to once again open its doors to let people down and see this most famous of abandoned tube stations.
200th anniversary of London’s oldest surviving surgical theatre Hidden away in the roof of an old church near London Bridge can be found the oldest surviving surgical theatre in Europe, and plans have been announced to mark its 200th anniversary.
Exhibition shows off the electronic music legacy of Thomas Leer and Robert Rental At the turn of the 1980s, as punk morphed into electro, two men released an album that was highly rated at the time, but most people today probably haven't heard of them.
Tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show After its autumnal diversion last year, the Chelsea Flower Show is back to normal this year, and tickets are now on sale for the May floral extravaganza.
A chance to climb up the Cutty Sark sailing masts For the first time since it arrived in Greenwich back in 1954, visitors to the Cutty Sark will be able to climb up the ship's mask rigging and see the sights from up high.
The Marquess of Westminster drinking fountain It probably sounds like the name of a pub, but in Pimlico is a drinking fountain erected to the memory of the 2nd Marquess of Westminster.
America in Crisis – Exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery A fusion of two collections of photographs of American life, separated by 40 years of time, but showing a society that seems to have changed little.
Crossrail hands control of Canary Wharf’s Elizabeth line station to TfL TfL has taken formal control of the Elizabeth line station at Canary Wharf, leaving just one last station to hand over for the line to be complete.
HRH The Prince of Wales’s Watercolours exhibition A recently restored former military chapel is currently hosting an exhibition of watercolours all painted by the Prince of Wales.
Tickets alert: Meet a holographic David Attenborough A free exhibition is opening next month based around the BBC's Green Planet TV series, and it includes a virtual David Attenborough who has been transformed into a 3D hologram.
Exhibition about the Northern line extension that wasn’t built Had things turned out differently, the Northern line would be a lot more northern than it is, and a new exhibition has opened to explore that planned but never built extension.
Tickets Alert: Tours of Longford Castle Not in London, but worth flagging up as the Longford Castle is a private estate that's only open for a few tours each year.
LGBTQ+ museum to open in King’s Cross this Spring What is thought to be the UK's first dedicated museum to gay history is set to open in Granary Square, King's Cross, occupying part of a building owned by the charity, Art Fund.
Ladywell’s derelict Victorian swimming pool to be restored A run-down former swimming pool and public hall that has been decaying for years is to be restored after a long-planned restoration was finally agreed upon.
London’s Alleys: Arthur Street, EC4 This is a Roman era alley in the City that was discovered during the soon to be completed Bank tube station upgrade project.