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The Mayor of London argues that the move would help struggling hospitality businesses. At one minute past midnight on Saturday morning, London officially entered Tier 2 of the UK’s new tiered coronavirus alert sys...
A sad but unsurprising update for you. The signs felt pretty ominous from the moment London’s New Year’s Eve fireworks were cancelled last month, and they’ve not got better in the weeks since. Owing to...
I must be the happiest person alive. If anyone can soothe the pain after a long, long day of having an existential crisis (or less dramatically, just working from home), it’s Sir David Attenborough. And it turns o...
The Welsh travel ban begins tonight. Bad news if you were planning a Welsh getaway anytime soon: as of 6pm tonight (Friday, October 16), anyone travelling from parts of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland with high...
A change to London’s lockdown status is coming, as the city will enter Tier 2 at the weekend. When the three-tiered coronavirus alert system was formally introduced on Monday, sending cities such as Manchester, Li...
Regent Street will have a greener, more pleasant look once works are completed. The pedestrianisation of adjoining Oxford Street may not be going ahead, but Regent Street will be undergoing some changes between now and...
A tiered system for controlling the spread of coronavirus has been unveiled for the UK today. Addressing Parliament today, Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled a new series of measures designed to slow the worryingly-i...
Avanti West Coast has launched the UK’s first fully wrapped Pride train. Back in August, the UK’s very first, rainbow-covered Pride train set off from London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly on its first official service...
The scheme has already received £11 million funding from the Mayor of London’s office. Finding a solution to London’s homelessness crisis is a long-running problem, but a new scheme might just pave the way t...
You’ll need to wait until 2021 to see the Alexandra Palace fireworks. Fireworks displays are starting to bear the brunt of social distancing measures, as a couple of weeks after London’s New Year’s Eve...