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400 London taxis will be kitted out with lifesaving bandages as part of a new TfL scheme. Black cabs carrying the military-grade bandages will have a sticker in the windshield so they can be identified in an emergency. The emergency […]
Caffeine addicts will have to dish out a further £5 a month if they want to take advantage of Pret’s coffee subscription. The service – which offers users five coffees (other hot and iced drinks are available) a day – […]
Bad news, north London. Kentish Town tube station will be closed for a year from this summer, TfL has announced. Its 26-year-old escalators have to be replaced. The ‘vital’ escalator work will begin on Monday June 26. Its clunky old escalators, installed […]
London is already doing its bit to reassess the patriarchy. The city is home to The Women’s Library at the London School of Economics and The Feminist Library in Peckham, and now a new glass-ceiling mashing institution is about to […]
Did you hear that? HMV, the mecca of CDs, DVDs and band posters is BACK. The store is reopening its iconic Oxford Street location. After a four-year absence, the flagship will reopen later this year with fresh branding and a new […]
We’ve done the maths, and – we think this is right – you’ll be spending more time in May dossing about than you ever have done before, thanks to the embarrassment of bank holidays we are being treated with. And […]
Can former Shakespearean prodigy Kenneth Branagh really be old enough to play King Lear? The answer is ‘yes, absolutely’ – Sir Ken is somehow now 62 years old, with a career that’s taken in everything from playing the Russian bad […]