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Over 500 years of royal jewellery will go on display next year, and tickets to the blingfest go on sale shortly.

It’s tapestry season in London, and while the big one is historic, the Guildhall Art Gallery is also showing a collection of modern tapestries.

Ongoing escalator problems at Angel Tube station have forced Transport for London’s hand, and it has announced that the station will be exit-only on weekends and bank holidays from Saturday 2nd January until further notice.

A coalition of nearly 200 companies has written to the Chancellor urging him to support the proposed West London Orbital railway in the forthcoming budget.

Pedestrianisation season seems to be here in London, as Camden Council has announced it will make a trial pedestrianisation of Camden High Street permanent.

Just after 5pm on Wednesday 8th December 1954, passengers waiting for a train home at Gunnersbury station heard a sudden roar of wind.

Olde London – Victoria Street, circa 1900 Today’s London news round-up: In photos: Say goodbye to the Grove Tavern in Dulwich as the bulldozers prepare to move in Brixton Buzz Old Salvation Army HQ in Elephant & Castle to be transformed into 720 homes and…

An annual tradition continues this Christmas, with a performance of Handel’s Messiah at St Paul’s Cathedral.

There have been some updates about mobile phone coverage on the London Underground.

The Royal College of Art next to the Royal Albert Hall has secured full planning permission for a £90 million refurbishment of its Kensington campus, including the restoration of its historic entrance facing the Royal Albert Hall.

As the evenings grow dark, it’s timely that a new exhibition opens in London telling the story of how humans have mapped the night sky.

This narrow passage, surrounded along most of its route by high brick walls, links an old church with a since-demolished manor house.

Just before 8pm on Sunday evening, the last buses and taxis made their way along the half of Oxford Street that is now fully pedestrianised.

Olde London – Park Road, Regents Park between 1900 and 1908 Today’s London news round-up: Around 211 households have been evacuated from two tower blocks in Canning Town due to serious structural issues.

The crowded pavement outside the British Museum could be widened to reduce congestion as an interim measure ahead of a proposed pedestrianisation of the entire road.

London’s famous graffiti tunnel under Waterloo station is to host a Formula 1 exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Williams F1 racing team.

A red line on a map, a complaint about slow post and a few fragments recovered from a swamp help tell the story of America’s founding in a new exhibition.

This weekend marks the start of the phased pedestrianisation of Oxford Street, as buses are progressively diverted away from the street.

This is a weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news… The image is from an Oct 2024 article: The year a tube train got stuck in the Lord Mayor’s Show London Underground Angel tube station in central London faces possible closure as its ageing escalat…

Olde London – East Finchley Today’s London news round-up: The Met had arrested 42 people and seized up to £100,000 in suspected stolen goods in busts on ‘rogue’ shops across London.

A man has been banned from being left alone in any reading room of a museum or library in England and Wales after he was convicted of stealing an antique map from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

The mystery surrounding a skeleton found in a Roman sarcophagus excavated on the grounds of Westminster Abbey more than 150 years ago seems closer to being solved.

West London’s Eastcote tube station has been granted planning permission for a step-free upgrade, but it still needs funding to proceed.

Three of the one of the most famous images in the art world have gone on display in a one-off exhibition that points out that they were just one in a series of 36 artworks about something else.

You might have seen some large adverts appearing on the Elizabeth line recently, and they’re all part of a year-long campaign promoting Turkish Airlines.

This substantial park runs along the Grand Union Canal and sits on land cleared of slums in the 1970s, then saved from developers.

Olde London – Wembley High Road c. 1900–1915 Today’s London news round-up: Lambeth steps up night-time patrols to tackle illegal trading and ‘keep people safe’ Brixton Buzz Trouble at mill: a falling window stopped the Wandle’s last working waterwheel Put…

The London Fire Brigade will reopen its long-closed museum after securing planning permission to revamp its historic Albert Embankment headquarters.

A flotilla carrying the Lord Mayor of London will pass through Tower Bridge next month as the Lord Mayor’s show returns to its original location, the River Thames.

Angel tube station in central London faces possible closure as its ageing escalators become increasingly unreliable and difficult to repair.

A foul and putrid air is once again abroad in London, as the stench of cholera and death that once haunted its streets seeps into the Charles Dickens Museum.

The last street in East London still lit by gas street lamps could see them replaced with electric LED bulbs under plans by the local residents’ association.

When the HS2 railway opens, it could spur a surge in house building nowhere near HS2 but along existing older railways, if government policies are tweaked to support new towns.

Olde London – The Broadway, Stratford Today’s London news round-up: Camden Council is considering whether to close four more schools in the borough due to falling pupil numbers.

Each year, the nation’s coins undergo a trial to ensure they are good and true, and later that year, those same coins are sold as collectables.

The London Overground’s Mildmay line is being extended to Richmond this week – at least it is in the game simulator Train Sim World 7, with a free update for existing owners.

The usually glittering interior of the Fitrovia Chapel is currently suffused with blue light in homage to the late artist Derek Jarman and his final film, Blue.

Transport for London (TfL) has refreshed its Poems on the Underground for the autumn, with a new selection of classical, contemporary and international works.

When Victorian Londoners wanted to travel overseas, they could catch a train from central London to the “Captain’s Brothel”, more politely called the Gallions Hotel, where they would board a boat to their destination.

Olde London – Piccadilly Circus about 1910 Today’s London news round-up: The homeless man living in front of a London mega-mansion DW Stroudley Walk regeneration delivers 82 affordable homes East London Advertiser Is an industrial revolution taking place…

London’s cluster of tallest buildings could all slip down the rankings as plans for a 70-storey skyscraper, almost as tall as The Shard, are being made.

The busy road junction outside Monument tube station could gain new pedestrian crossings, wider pavements and protected cycle lanes under proposals that would also remove the entrances to its disused underground public toilets.

If you fancy spending Christmas Eve in Cambridge, then the ballot to attend the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King’s College is now open.

A selection of three exhibitions that have opened in recent weeks at the two Tates.

Passengers who play music out loud on buses could face fines of up to £100 under new powers granted to local authorities in England.

The atmospheric Dennis Severs’ House gets even more special for Christmas, and tickets are now on sale for the often sold-out winter season.

The people who drive London’s trains, staff its stations, and reunite passengers with lost belongings are showing another side of their talents at Canary Wharf’s Jubilee line station.

Virgin Trains has confirmed that it plans to launch its cross-Channel rail services in 2030, after signing an agreement for 12 new Alstom trains and securing a deal to maintain them at Temple Mills depot in east London.

This is a weekly round-up of London’s rail transport news… The image is from a Sept 2025 article: A call to bring back the Intercity rail map London Underground A senior Green politician has called for London’s motorists to help fund the long-delayed Bake…

Olde London – Seven Dials road junction in Covent Garden around 1896 Today’s London news round-up: Staff at the group running Putney’s hospitals, St George’s and Queen Mary’s, have told its board, in public, that colleagues who raised concerns faced reper…