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Culture 12 Feb, 2018

Chester Beatty Library in Dublin marks 50th anniversary of its founder's death. Dublin's Chester Beatty Library is holding a year-long programme of special events to mark the 50th anniversary of the...

Rome News

Major expansion for Rome's Campus Bio-Medico University

Health 01 Feb, 2018

Rome university and medical centre presents masterplan.The Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, in the Trigoria area south of the capital, is to undergo a major expansion thanks to a €200 million inv...

Madrid News

Madrid goes green

Environment 29 Jan, 2018

City combats pollution with major greening project.A proposal to "re-naturalise" Madrid into a green oasis is currently under consideration by the city as part of plans to reduce the capital's polluti...

Brussels News

Centre Pompidou to open in Brussels

Culture 15 Jan, 2018

Museum will open in 2022 at former Citroën site in Brussels.The Pompidou Centre, a contemporary art museum based in Paris, plans to open a branch in Brussels by 2022. The new museum will be located a...

London News

London opens first all-vegan pub

Food and Agriculture 14 Jan, 2018

100 per cent vegan pub to open in east London.London's first 100 per cent vegan pub is scheduled to open on Homerton High Street, a hipster district in the east of the city, on 19 January.The Spread E...

Copenhagen News

Last payphones removed from Copenhagen

Telecoms 27 Dec, 2017

End of an era as Denmark phases out public payphones. The last remaining public payphones are being removed from Danish streets as Denmark scraps the system entirely in the era of the smartphone.Ther...

London News

Eataly to open in London

Food and Agriculture 26 Dec, 2017

First London branch for high-end Italian food chain Eataly. London is set to have its first branch of Eataly, the high-end Italian food mall chain, as part of the ongoing Square Mile redevelopment of...

Dublin News

Dublin Cross City tram line to open on 9 December

Transport 05 Dec, 2017

Cross City Luas will provide central link between Green and Red lines.Dublin's new Luas Cross City route comes into operation on 9 December, four years after works began on the route which connects th...

Barcelona News

New Gaudí house museum in Barcelona

Culture 05 Dec, 2017

Gaudí's Casa Vicens opens as new public museum in Barcelona.Casa Vicens, the first home designed and built by Modernist Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) has opened as a museum in Barcelona...

Berlin News

Berlin's opera house opens after seven-year facelift

Culture 04 Dec, 2017

Refurbishment of Berlin's Staatsoper opera house has been mired in controversy.Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden is scheduled to reopen on 7 December following a seven-year refurbishment that has r...

London News

London shop sells Christmas gifts for refugees

Humanitarian 04 Dec, 2017

Choose Love shop in London allows customers to give practical help to refugees. London has opened the world's first pop-up shop where customers can buy gifts to be distributed to refugees in Europe a...

Dublin News

Redevelopment plans for Dublin's Guinness brewery

Infrastructure 07 Oct, 2017

New urban quarter for St James's Gate site in central Dublin.Part of Dublin's historic St James’s Gate brewery site, which has brewed Guinness since 1759, is set to be redeveloped as a "dynamic urban...

Vienna News

World Museum Vienna to open on 25 October

Culture 07 Oct, 2017

Former Museum of Ethnology will feature artefacts from five continents.The Weltmuseum Wien, formally the Museum of Ethnology, is set to reopen on 25 October as the Weltmuseum Wien (World Museum Vienna...

Dublin News

Dublin hotel room rates at record levels

Tourism 04 Sep, 2017

Average price of Dublin hotel room now higher than boom era.Room rates at Dublin hotels have reached a record high according to a report released by annual Crowe Horwath hotel industry survey. The ave...

Berlin News

Berlin to open street art museum

Culture 03 Sep, 2017

Museum library will contain extensive street art archive.The Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art is set to open in Berlin's Schöneberg district over the weekend of 16-17 September.Berlin's...

Berlin News

Berlin's Tempelhof airport to become tourist attraction

Tourism 28 Aug, 2017

Abandoned civilian airport to reopen to tourists in 2020.Berlin's Tempelhof airport, a once busy civilian hub adandoned since 2008, is to be transformed into a tourist attraction some 80 years after t...

London News

Campaign to save London's stretcher fences

City 28 Aug, 2017

South London fences made from world war two stretchers. A campaign is underway to protect steel fences in south London made from stretchers formerly used to carry wounded civilians during the Blitz...

Dublin News

Dublin seeks to protect Hungry Tree

City 21 Jul, 2017

City councillors request preservation order for Dublin landmark. Dublin city councillors have called for the protection of the so-called Hungry Tree, a London Plane which over the decades has gradual...

London News

Gender-neutral announcements on London Tube

Transport 20 Jul, 2017

Staff making announcements on London's underground system have been told to drop the term "Ladies and gentlemen" in favour of more inclusive greetings such as "Good morning everyone".The move, which h...

London News

V&A Museum unveils new courtyard

Culture 07 Jul, 2017

London's Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum has unveiled its new spaces on the site's Exhibition Road Quarter following a £55 million programme of works. The complex comprises a new entr...

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