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Plans include £450m worth of improvements, including more lifts and a new upper concourse.more

The cost of the bearskin caps worn by Royal Guardsmen guarding Buckingham Palace and St James's Palace in London has risen by 30 per cent in a year and now exceeds £2,000 apiece, the UK Ministry of Defence admitted on Thursday.more

The time for London Open House 2024 – the UK capital's annual festival that celebrates architecture for all – has come around. This is the event where buildings, many normally off-limits to the public, throw open their doors to welcome everyone – from the simply architecture-curious to die-hard genre enthusiasts, and from students to professionals and the general public. more

Corkage fees - the charge applied to diners who bring their own wine - are rising as restaurants try to make a profit, industry experts have said. According to trade publication The Drinks Business, the average fee was about £12 to £15 per bottle of still wine opened on site.more

Findings of the plane lace bug (Corythucha ciliata) tree pest have been confirmed in the UK for first time in 18 years.more

The Environment Agency warned flooding along the Thames, particularly in West London, is likely.more

A damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire concluded Wednesday that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a "death trap" where 72 people lost their lives.more

London has been ranked second only to Hong Kong in a global study of cities’ efforts to prevent and treat heart disease. The UK capital was praised by the World Heart Federation (WHF) in its ‘City Heartbeat Index’ for pursuing policies like the Ultra low emission zone (Ulez), banning junk food adverts on the Tube, and greatly expanding its cycle lane network. more

Eight people were knifed at this year's Carnival in the London borough of Notting Hill and 334 people were arrested, London's Metropolitan Police said today. The festival is one of the world's largest outdoor events.more

Three people were injured with a knife, including one with life-threatening injuries, during the first day of a carnival in Notting Hill, west London, Reuters reported today, citing London police. Services said 90 people were arrested during the event.more

Voi, which already operates e-scooters in the capital, has said it wants to ‘generate as many rides as possible with as few vehicles as possible’.more

Notting Hill Carnival returns to west London this August bank holiday for the 56th year. Carnival is one of the longest running street parties in the world and the largest street party in Europe. Over two million people, including thousands of tourists, attend each year to follow the three-mile (5km) parade.more

The annual passenger cap will increase from 6.5 million to 9 million at London City Airport under plans approved by the government.more

The Tube is iconic in London. Whether you’re at the end of the Central line, or equidistant between the Northern and Victoria lines, The Underground is an essential part of everyday life for most Londoners. more

The ASLEF Union has announced fresh strike action, which would affect London trains for 11 weekends. Drivers would walk out on Saturdays and Sundays between August 31 to November 10. Officials say that the move would affect 'all LNER services'. They terminate at London Kings Cross and travel from Inverness, Aberdeen, Bradford, Middlesbrough, Hull and Lincoln. more

The £210m scrappage fund is running out, with Londoners still driving non-compliant vehicles urged to apply for a share of what’s left.more

Part of the Somerset House complex will open to the public today despite a fire which damaged the roof of the central London arts venue on Saturday. more

Sadiq Khan is plotting to impose rent controls in London in a move that could slash landlords’ incomes by thousands of pounds a year. The Mayor is poised to ask the Government for powers that will allow him to regulate the capital’s rental market, The Telegraph understands.more

The disruption includes a reduced service to Heathrow Terminal 4 and other areas of the route on the Tube map.more

A new map of the London Underground created by a university lecturer who branded TfL’s classic map “garbage” has gone viral on social media. The familiar, linear Tube map used across London every day is based on the original design drawn up by Henry Beck more than 90 years ago, in 1933.more

The Metropolitan Police is failing in almost all its areas of work, the police inspectorate has said. The force was assessed across nine areas and graded as "requires improvement" or "inadequate" in seven - including investigating and preventing crime.more

An artwork appearing on the shutters of London Zoo has been confirmed as the latest and final image in Banksy's surprise animal art trail across the capital. It shows a gorilla lifting the shutter to release a sea lion and birds, while other animals appear to look on from the inside.more

A man has been charged with attempted murder after an 11-year-old girl was stabbed in Leicester Square. Ioan Pintaru, 32, of no fixed address, has also been charged with possession of a bladed article and was remanded in custody to appear at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday morning.more

An 11-year-old girl and 34-year-old woman have been stabbed in London's Leicester Square. In a post on X, external, the Met Police said a man had been arrested and taken into custody, adding the force does not believe there are "any outstanding suspects".more

A new artwork of swimming fish on a police box in the City of London has been confirmed as a Banksy piece. The elusive street artist claimed the piece as his in an Instagram post, making it his seventh artwork to be unveiled this week in various locations across the capital.more