300th anniversary Grinling Gibbons exhibition coming to London
This August marks the 300th anniversary of the death of one of the UK's best skilled, and certainly best known carvers - Grinling Gibbons.

The Science Museum is to become a Covid vacination centre
The Science Museum in South Kensington is being drafted in to support science's fight against the Covid virus, as it's to become a mass vaccination hub for the local area.

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

Over 700,000 paintings from the Rijksmuseum online copyright free
Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum has put over 700,000 digitised copies of its huge art collection online, and is making them available to reuse as public domain

TfL gets approval for 852 new homes in Acton
TfL’s largest residential development so far, over 850 homes along old railway land in Acton has secured planning permission.

A herd of elephants can be seen in Spitalfields
There's a herd of 21 elephants in Spitalfields at the moment -- one adult and 20 orphaned juveniles.

Georgian Group’s journal made available for free online
The Georgian Group, an organisation the promotes and conserves Georgian era architecture has put most of its Journal archive online - for free.

TfL to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to face masks
Although the majority of people comply with the law regarding wearing a face cover on public transport, TfL is stepping up its enforcement against people who still refuse to wear one without good reason.

Crystal Palace gets a Dinosaur bridge
Crystal Palace's famous concrete dinosaurs are free to roam around, as a bridge has been installed to their isolated island in a lake.

TfL to keep accepting cash payments for London travel tickets
A temporary reprieve for cash, as TfL has put on hold plans to stop accepting cash as payment for travel tickets.

London Public Art: Three large stone heads on Milford Lane
Three large stone heads can be found looking around corners of a new housing development by Aldwych.

Tickets Alert: London Concours luxury car exhibition
Something to look forward to if you like looking at expensive cars -- a big display of them is returning to London in the summer.

See things never seen before at the Science Museum
Would you like to see something that no one (outside the Museum) has ever seen before?

The year a “railway” ran inside Westminster Abbey
For a few months in 1952, railway tracks could be found running through the middle of Westminster Abbey.

London’s Public Art: Vortex by Barbara Sandler
Just to the north of Spitalfields Market is a public sculpture looking like a swirl of a person crouching down.

The “Trump Baby” blimp is coming to the Museum of London
A giant orange balloon of Donald Trump in a baby nappy is to become part of the permanent collection at the Museum of London.

London’s Alleys: Doughty Mews, WC1
A charming mews running riot with plants and old former housing for horses and servants just around the corner from the Charles Dickens Museum.