Several areas of London will be illuminated over the next few days as a series of light installations take over the capital.
More than 50 works by UK and international artists are being displayed as part of Lumiere London.more
London Mayor Sadiq Khan launched a so-called Licence for London, which he said would benefit the capital's 25,000 bus drivers. It puts an end to the previous system where drivers moving to another bus company would get lower pay.more
Londoners now pay more than a third of their monthly salary on rent - which will come as absolutely no surprise to, well, Londoners. People in the capital now pay an average of 37% of their wages on rent each month.
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Uber said on Tuesday its British drivers will have to take a six-hour break after they have accepted and made trips with passengers totaling 10 hours as the taxi app responds to criticism over excessive working hours.more
It's always a tough choice trying to decide where to stay when you head abroad for a holiday or a weekend break. But thankfully Hostel World have created a list of the most popular hostels across Europe according to how they have been rated, so we never have to go through the struggle of sifting through pages and pages of hostels before picking one.more
Londoners have already declared their favourite Tube line, but this ranking of which Tube lines face the most delays may give passengers more food for thought.more
The north of the UK was hit with more than a foot of snow in some places overnight, as forecasters warned that another storm could bring high winds to batter the country. Experts have warned of "heavy squally showers of snow" that may cause power cuts and disruption on the roads, with up to 25cm on snow possible on high ground, according to the BBC.more
The UK is bracing for more extreme weather this week with a severe warning for ice and snow extended for much of the north of the country. The Met Office has extended a yellow weather warning for snow and ice to last until Wednesday this week.
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The short distance between Dublin and London and the fact that the two cities are separated by the Irish Sea means it should come as no surprise that the journey is among the busiest international flight routes in the world. The English capital is but a stone's throw away and every day people are hopping on planes for work, leisure or to see relatives in old London town. more
Ecuador granted citizenship to Julian Assange and tried to register him as a diplomat in order to secure his release from the nation's London embassy.more
Air quality alerts of the type used in London by Sadiq Khan are "inadequate" in protecting public health, researchers said today. They said tackling filthy air was best addressed by enforceable laws on cleaner fuel and emissions and by targeting polluting industries rather than leaving people to protect themselves.more
A total of 24,473 attempts to access such material from computers and other devices connected to the parliamentary network were made between June and October 2017 - around 160 a day on average.more
A crook who fled to Leicester to escape being extradited to Poland was caught hiding outside a cannabis factory, a court heard. Slawomir Jasiecki (43) was found crouching down in a neighbour's garden when the police attended a rented property in Woodbine Avenue, Highfields, Leicester, on Thursday, November 23.more
Eight-week-old mongrel Ronnie was bought online by his owner's ex-partner. But Ronnie was left at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in south London on January 2 after his owner became homeless.more
The London Fire Brigade has accused the BBC of sexism after the term fireman was used instead of firefighter in a children's TV show. A Twitter account for crews based in Greenwich, south London, posted a series of tweets after a squirrel was referred to as a fireman in popular CBeebies show Hey Duggee.more