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To celebrate the World Shakespeare Festival the Globe Theatre in London is staging 37 Shakespeare plays by 37 companies from 37 countries in almost as many languages - from Albanian to Yoruba.
The...
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Police to use Battersea power station site
The site of the old Battersea power station, which has been waiting for over a quarter of a century to be redeveloped, has been earmarked as a police transport centre during the Olympic Games which be...
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Johnson targets women's vote in campaign to stay in office
With just over a week to go until the elections for mayor of London on 3 May the incumbent, Boris Johnson, is promising to create 20,000 part-time jobs to help mothers get back to work if he is re-ele...
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London to vote for mayor in May
The elections for mayor of London on 3 May are too close to call at the moment, with the present mayor Boris Johnson (Conservative party) fighting it out against the ex-mayor Ken Livingstone (Labo...
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London Fashion week started on Friday 17 February, fast on the heels of the New York showings.
One of the highlights of the next six days is the Stella McCartney special presentation show (Saturda...
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London’s mayor launches 2013 cycle festival
The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has called for a world-class cycling festival to be held in London during August 2013. Johnson hopes that the two-day event will attract about 200,000 people to the...
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The new pedestrian and vehicle precinct around Exhibition Road in central London was officially opened on 1 February after three years
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The department store Selfridges on Oxford Street in London is providing an interactive reading space for children on its lower ground floor in an effort to improve literacy in the capital.
The new...
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Public transport planning for London Olympics
London commuters are being asked to travel at off peak times during the Olympic Games, to work from home or to take a break at the pub after work before taking the train home.
It is estimated that...
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Eight new jump-on, jump-off red double-decker buses will start service in London at the end of February 2012. The new models will run on route 38 from Victoria to Hackney.
Inspired by the old Rout...
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London’s parking tightened for Olympics
During the London Olympics in summer 2012 about one million motorists will have to get new permits to park outside their houses and businesses or face up to
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Cab related sex offences fall in London
London transport chiefs have applauded the significant drop in sex offences related to London
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Floating river walkway for London
London is to have a one-kilometre long floating walkway along the Thames by the summer of 2012, to coincide with the London Olympic Games. The
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London schools face massive shortage of places
Up to 70,000 children in London will not have a school place over the next four years, says London Councils, an organisation that represents all 33 London boroughs. The shortage of school places in th...
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Tube bosses have announced plans to roll out wi-fi networks at 120 stations across the capital before the start of the 2012 Olympic games. Following a successful trial at Charing Cross station, passen...
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New measures to help rough sleepers in London
New measures to cut the number of rough sleepers on London
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Rental prices for property in London are soaring, as demand outstrips supply, according to figures released by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
In the third quarter of 2010 London saw...
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Reducing pollution on London’s busiest streets
A trial has begun in the capital to reduce levels of pollutants in the air by spraying roads with a dust suppressant that causes dangerous particulates to stick to the road surface.
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