The one-day Travelcard has been saved, Transport for London announced on Tuesday.
TfL has struck a deal with train firms to retain the ticket, which is used more than 14 million times a year by people visiting the capital.more
A Hamas chief is living in a London council house despite allegedly running violent operations in the West Bank, a report has revealed.
Muhammad Qassem Sawalha, 62, was given a £112,300 discount on the £320,700 two-storey home by Barnet Council.more
Within four years, we will digitize 7 million herbarium plant specimens and make them available for free on the Internet. We hope that it will work like a spiral and other countries will also want to follow our lead. Creating databases with free access is crucial for the development of science, said Dr. Alan Paton, keeper of the herbarium plant collection at the Royal Kew Gardens in London.more
About 100,000 people took part in yesterday's pro-Palestinian demonstration in central London. They demanded an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported.more
More than a third of adult Londoners are not doing the recommended levels of exercise, a study revealed on Thursday, as a charity urged Sadiq Khan to tackle the capital’s inactivity crisis.more
There are four flood alerts in place in different parts of the city including around South Ruislip and one that covers parts of Lewisham, Bromley, Greenwich and Croydon.more
The UK is home to the top three most overpriced tourist attractions in the world, according to new research.
Coming in at number one is a place dedicated to one of the UK’s biggest cultural exports.
The Warner Bros Studio Tour - The Making of Harry Potter lets fans indulge in the wizarding world and see all the biggest sets from all the films.more
Acid attacks have risen in London by 45% in a year, Met Police data revealed. The force recorded 107 of such attacks in 2022, up from 74 in 2021, a Freedom of Information request stated.more
The Metropolitan Police plans to use facial recognition technology going forward to try to identify and arrest London's most prolific shoplifters.
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Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police in London today during a protest against a conference of oil and gas companies being held at a hotel in the city, Reuters reported, citing witnesses.more
Sadiq Khan made the announcement at an Underground station to mark World Restart A Heart Day. Last year, the London Ambulance Service responded to 13,000 cardiac arrests across the capital.
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Sadiq Khan is offering all 500 secondary schools in London knife wand metal detectors to screen pupils for weapons in the wake of 15-year-old Elianne Andam’s murder.more
A piece of street art appeared in central London this week, and has sparked rumours it could be a new Banksy.
The spraypainted black-and-white work features a robotic arm writing the words “another world is possible”, as three people attempt to drag it away using ropes.more
Thousands of people took part in demonstrations in support of the Palestinians yesterday in several British cities, including London and Manchester. Seven people were arrested in London.more
There has been a "huge increase" in anti-Semitic incidents and offenses in London over the past two weeks, London's Metropolitan Police said yesterday. Hamas's surprise attack on Israel has increased social tensions across the country.more
Tuberculosis cases in London have reached the highest level in years, data shows, as experts warned that the world is “losing the battle” to eliminate the virus.more
The UK is set for much colder than average conditions, which the Met Office warns might come as a "shock" for people in some areas following an unseasonably warm start to October.
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Heathrow said the number of passengers it carried last month was ahead of 2019 levels for the first time since the pandemic. The airport said 7.1 million passengers travelled through one of its terminals in September.more
It has become one of London’s great transport talking points: is the Elizabeth line a Tube line or a train line?
The answer, says Transport for London, is neither: rather, the “Lizzie line” is in a class of its own.more
