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• Half price entry to Dr Johnson’s House on Friday afternoons

  14-01-2026 17:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Bargain (noun): Something pleasingly inexpensive – especially when it involves one of London’s great literary landmarks.
  Dr Johnson’s House (c) ianVisits
  If you fancy a cultured detour just off Fleet Street, there’s a definition worth learning first: entry to Dr Johnson’s House is half price every Friday afternoon. It gives you an ideal excuse to step off the pavement and into the birthplace of the modern English dictionary.
  House (noun): A seventeenth-century townh
  
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• Tickets Alert: 2026 tours of privately owned Longford Castle

  14-01-2026 15:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  An unusual castle built on the banks of the River Avon 450 years ago, and still a private home, offers occasional tours through the summer, with tickets now available.
  Longford Castle (c) ianVisits
  This is Longford Castle, the private home of the Earl of Radnor, a 16th-century building whose strikingly unconventional exterior hints at what lies inside. Behind the walls is an art collection, rich enough in Old Master paintings to rival many major galleries, set within interiors that reflect centu
  
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• Urban Rewilding: Beavers could return to a south London park

  14-01-2026 14:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  London’s largest Beaver enclosure could be coming to South London soon as part of a rewilding plan for South Norwood Country Park.Croydon Council’s proposal would introduce a family of beavers to the park to help restore wildlife habitats, improve water quality, and create a healthier natural environment.
  The council is working with Citizen Zoo, specialists in urban rewilding, who are assessing the site’s potential. Citizen Zoo also helped deliver London’s first openly ac
  
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• Ticket checks ramped up on the DLR in fare evasion crackdown

  14-01-2026 13:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Fare evasion is set to get harder on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) as the operator steps up ticket inspections on trains.As most of the DLR stations don’t have ticket barriers, there’s a certain level of trust that people tend to do the right thing and pay for transport, and the vast majority do pay to take a ride on the DLR.
  A trial in 2023 tested whether making the ticket machines more noticeable would help reduce incidents of people genuinely forgetting to tap in/out on t
  
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• Man arrested over £260,000 graffiti spree on Northern line trains

  14-01-2026 08:40 via ianvisits.co.uk
  A person suspected of causing nearly £260,000 of graffiti damage to tube trains has been arrested following a British Transport Police (BTP) investigation.
  Bakerloo line train at Lambeth North tube station (c) ianVisits
  Officers from the BTP’s Operational Support Unit forced entry to a property in Barnet, north London, during the early hours of Friday 9th January.
  A 48-year-old man was arrested at the address on suspicion of criminal damage and taken into custody for questioning. He
  
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• Wellington Arch at 200: The monument that lost a statue and gained a tunnel

  14-01-2026 08:00 via ianvisits.co.uk
  Today marks the 200th anniversary of Wellington Arch being approved to be built at Hyde Park Corner. Although today it’s in a different location, it has a different statue on top and is technically still unfinished.Originally called the Grand Triumphal Arch, it was built in part to commemorate Britain’s victories in the Napoleonic Wars and as part of King George IV’s remodelling of Hyde Park and Buckingham Palace.
  Announced in 1825, it would take a year of wrangling to settle o
  
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