Travel news
Weekly news round-ups and stories from the day.
London Travel News 01/10/2011
Artist Serena Korda creates exhibition of dirt Korda's work, consisting of 500 handmade bricks containing UK clay and more, will appear as part of an exhibition called Dirt: the filthy reality of…
London Travel News 01/03/2011
Snow forecast as UK returns to work ...aaaannnndd here it goes again. Zara Phillips and Mike Tindall in pictures The Queen's granddaughter is newly engaged to a rugby player she has been dating since…
London Travel News 12/27/2010
British wildlife benefits from return to 'traditional' seasonal weather Conservationists express relief as insects, birds and other wildlife in the UK flourish because of cold winter and a decent…
London Travel News 12/22/2010
Prince William to miss seeing Kate Middleton on Christmas Day as he volunteers for RAF duty And so it begins.
London Travel News 12/18/2010
London Ice Sculpting Festival 13-15 Jan at Canary Wharf Who says a winter freeze can't be spectacular?
London Travel News 12/13/2010
Engagement pictures of William and Kate released Sweet photos taken by Mario Testino at St. James' Palace.
London Travel News 12/08/2010
Freeze of the century: Army on standby in coldest December for 100 years Wow, and here I'd thought the winter of 2003-4 was bad...it's got nothing on 2010.
London Travel News 12/06/2010
King's Speech rules at the BIFAs On 5 December, the British Independent Film Awards crowned their cinematic champions of 2010; "The King's Speech" came up trumps.
London Travel News 11/30/2010
Big freeze hits Britain with -20C warning as snow causes chaos Snow -- in London? Yup, it really happened...and made a mess of traffic, too.
London Travel News 11/22/2010
Tube strike: workers vote over victimisation action Hundreds of Tube workers are to be balloted for strikes in a row over the treatment of two union members.
London Travel News 11/17/2010
London will cash in by £250m as tourists flock to join Royal Wedding party The celebration of the royal wedding will give the struggling British economy a £620million lift, it was estimated today.
London Travel News 10/09/2010
London bike hire scheme notches up one million journeys Mayor Johnson's costly (and criticized) plan to get Londoners and tourists on blue rental bikes has proved a smashing success in only 10 weeks.
London Travel News 10/04/2010
The Frugal Traveler: How to See London for Less From flat-out freebies to food, planning and parks, tips for how to save a few pounds in London Town.
Warning Messages from Westminster Council
Westminster Council is to start a new service aimed at stopping tourists and naive Londoners from getting ripped off in the seamier parts of Soho.
London-world's second most expensive city
The Telegraph has a story about the latest annual Cost of Living Survey of 143 world cities carried out by Mercer Human Resource, and people who live here won't be surprised that London is rated the…
Take your paper with you
As usual when the public benefits from something free there's always a bunch of killjoys just around the corner waiting to complain about it.
The City of London wired for sound
The City of London and the City of London Police held a joint launch today for a new public warning system in London's financial district, the Square Mile, as the City of London is known.
Predicted impact of global warming on London
The map on the left has been produced by the International Centre for Research on the Environment and Development to illustrate how global warming will impact Europe in the next few decades.
Origin of London's tourists is changing
Some interesting figures released by Visit London about the origin of tourists coming to London.
London bomb plotters sentenced
This bunch of happy campers on the left are the latest crew of British muslims locked up for planning bombings in the UK, in their case the targets included the Bluewater shopping centre, the…
London flash mob strikes again
Flash mob events seem to be getting more frequent in London. Yesterday there was the biggest one yet at Victoria Station when around 4,000 people showed for an event pre-arranged over the internet.
Bollywood map of London
In a sign that London is appealing as a film location to more than just British and American productions, Film London and Visit London have today launched a new movie map highlighting places that…
In London somebody will be watching you
The Evening Standard has a pretty revealing story about the number of cctv cameras in the UK.
Wembley vs. Niemeyer: Great Minds Think Alike
Great picture in the Standard today showing the new Wembley Stadium and the 1941 design for a new stadium in Rio de Janeiro by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.