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A century of window shopping delicious treats and beautiful chocolate gifts is coming to an end: after 110 proud years, Thorntons is closing all of its stores permanently. It’s another sad announcement brought on...
A telephone box can be turned into anything from a little library to a gin bar. With mobile phones now a big part of our lives (how did we cope without them?), the infamously-British red telephone boxes located on stree...
March 23 marks a year since the beginning of the UK’s first lockdown. A national day of reflection and a minute of silence will be held to honour the 143,000 people who have died in the pandemic. Nearly 12 months...
Fingers crossed this comes to London. Five days. 40 hours. Sometimes (well, often actually) it can get on top of the best of us. We tend to find ourselves feeling that if the working week was reduced just that tiny bit,...
The first vaccinations at the Science Museum were delivered yesterday. One year after it was forced to close due to the Covid-19 pandemic, London’s Science Museum has reopened with a new purpose: as a mass vaccina...
The organisers want to make the streets “safe for all women”. UPDATE: Per organisers, Met Police now want them to cancel the event – the decision is currently being challenged, so keep an eye on the Facebook event...
The green woman signals can now be found all over London. In working to improve diversity and achieve equality, the big steps and bold actions matter the most. That’s never not going to be true when aiming to crea...
The government has clarified the rules around outdoor drinking. If you’re hoping to pop down to your local on April 12 but are worrying about the lack of a true beer garden there, then some good news emerged this...
Amazon Fresh opened in Ealing this morning. Erm, welcome to the future, I guess? Back in 2018, rumour had it that Amazon was snooping around the city looking for shop space for their checkout-less shopping concept, the...
New trains? Oh TfL, you really shouldn’t have! Actually, maybe they should have: the current lot date back to the 1970s and were last refurbished at the turn of the millennium. But all our Christmases have come at...