There’s a London tube strike this week
Although the national rail strikes have been cancelled, there will be a large scale tube strike this coming Thursday 10th November.

Flash sale on Elf the Musical tickets this weekend
Based on the hit Will Ferrell holiday classic, the hit Broadway and West End show is coming to London’s Dominion Theatre for a limited 8-week season, just in time for Christmas.

A festival of modernism comes to London
Celebrate modernism in all its forms at a new all-day conference that's being hosted at one of London's greatest modernist buildings, the recently refurbished Waltham Forest Town Hall.

Tickets Alert: Free visits to UCL’s telescope observatory
In north London is a fully functioning set of science discovering telescopes, and they offer tours to the public who fancy a chance to peer through them.

Just one month left until the Museum of London closes
You have just one month left to visit the Museum of London before it closes for a few years as part of its planned move to a new building.

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

Callipygian Christmas tree decorations from the National Gallery
The National Gallery would like you to hang some naked bodies from your Christmas tree this year. Yes, really!

London’s newest concert hall opens in Nine Elms
London's first purpose built concert hall in nearly a decade has opened in Nine Elms, for a music education charity that supports young people who would otherwise be unable to have access to instruments and recording spaces.

London’s ice skating rinks for winter 2022/23
Winter is coming, and so are the pop-up ice rinks that populate the city each winter offering people opportunities to repeatedly fall over.

London’s Pocket Parks: Owens Field, EC1
This pocket park close to Angel tube station has existed ever since the area around it was turned from fields into houses, but for most of its life, it wasn't a space for the public to use - it was a school playground.

Wi-Fi upgrade for South Western Railway
Work to improve South Western Railway's in-train Wi-Fi service is underway along the railway between Basingstoke and Earlsfield.

The myths of Alexander the Great explored at the British Library
Alexander the Great is a figure so wrapped up in myth and legend that it can almost be difficult to remember that he was a real man, and the British Library is taking a look at the man behind the myth.

Better ventilation could be key for London Underground to manage air quality
A lack of fresh air was found in a deep London Underground station, and air pollution is at its worst during the evening rush hour, according to research led by the University of Surrey

Central London’s free museum mile
In central London is a cluster of free museums all within a short walk of each other that offer an eclectic day out, and leaves you wondering how you never visited them before.

London exhibitions to visit in November 2022
A selection of ten excellent exhibitions to visit in November during the interregnum between Bonfire Night and Christmas Jumper Season.

Simpsons Tavern, London’s oldest chophouse forced to close
The actions of an apparently capricious landlord has forced London's oldest surviving chophouse to close.

A second HS2 tunnel boring machine starts digging under London
The second of two huge tunnel boring machines has started digging the HS2 tunnels that'll run under west London

New housing development to sit next to Pudding Mill Lane DLR station
The large swathe of empty land next to Pudding Mill Lane DLR will soon fill with towers, as a large housing development has been approved for the area.

There’s a WWII bombshell next to Bexleyheath police station
Next to Bexleyheath police station is a WWII bomb, that in a literal interpretation of swords into ploughshares is now a potplant holder for a small garden.

London’s Alleys: Marion’s Way, SE1
This is a pedestrianised street close to Southwark tube station that was renamed a year ago as Marion's Way after the local resident and campaigner, Marion Marples, who died in 2019.