• Tickets Alert: Discounted tickets to Open Gardens Weekend 2026

    Tickets for an annual weekend when loads of London’s usually private gardens are open to the public have gone on sale, with a Christmas discount for early buyers.
    Bramham Gardens (c) ianVisits
    The event began with volunteers’ passion to open up private West London squares and has since grown to embrace gardens across central London – from roof spaces owned by city banks, to historic institutions, community allotments and even the Prime Minister’s own Downing Street garden
  • Elizabeth line to run every three minutes on Saturdays as service ramps up

    There will soon be an Elizabeth line train through the core section of the network every three minutes on Saturdays, as TfL prepares to increase the service.Currently, there are 16 trains an hour through the core section on Saturdays, but this will increase to 20 trains an hour from Saturday 20th December, the week of the national timetable change which kicks in earlier that week.
    The additional services will run between approximately 11am and 8pm each Saturday, with two additional trains per ho
  • Southeastern rufurbishing its 20-year old Class 376 trains

    Southeastern has begun a full mid-life refresh of its 20-year-old Class 376 suburban trains, with the first upgraded unit, 376027, returning to passenger service last week.
    Refurbished interior (c) Southeastern
    The multi-million programme will cover all 36 five-car units in the fleet, delivering around 11,000 newly refurbished seats, more than 4,000 power and USB sockets, and the replacement or overhaul of some 29,000 interior components, including wall and ceiling panels, grab poles, trims and
  • Christmas sale on tickets to see The Moustrap

    Famously the world’s longest consistently running play, Agatha Christie’s Mousetrap has now been running for over 70 years, and is one of those plays that everyone is presumed to see once in their lives.The murder-mystery storyline is set in “the present”, presumably England, around the time the play was published in 1952, including the continuation of World War II rationing.
    The play is based on a short story, but Christie asked that the story not be published as long as
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  • Billionaire Drahi comes out fighting as creditors fall through ‘trap doors’

    Lenders to Franco-Israeli tycoon’s Altice empire are guessing his next move after falling victim to an aggressive restructuring

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