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This east London walk uncovers some of the capital’s weirdest secrets – with burial grounds, occultists and the ‘Mole House’

Photograph: Time Out From stone circles to leylines, to legends and witchcraft, the UK is packed full of freaky and mysterious histories and mythologies, which according to the folk at Weird Walk – the zine that encourages an exploration of British […]

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East London’s summer ‘beach’ is returning for 2026 – and it’s had a huge glow-up

If you’re anything like us, as soon as the sun comes out you start itching to feel the sand between your toes. The only problem, if you hadn’t noticed, is that the Big Smoke isn’t exactly a coastal city. Bar sunbathing on […]

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Next week one of London’s major parks will get a brand-new garden

Yesterday (Tuesday April 21) would have been the late Queen Elizabeth’s 100th birthday. There are all sorts of things going on in London to mark the occasion, like a fashion exhibition showing some of Lizzie’s most iconic garbs at Buckingham Palace, a presentation […]

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Frank Skinner, Katherine Ryan, Sam Campbell, Judi Love and more will headline a major London comedy festival this summer

Image: Supplied / Matt Crockett / Alexandra CameronIf you’re a big comedy fan, you’ll no doubt be mulling over whether to make the annual trip up to the Fringe in August. But, as is also tradition, you may be gearing […]

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Two massively acclaimed sold-out London plays are transferring to the West End

Composite: Ed CunninghamIf you’re not a theatre nerd, it’s not always easy to snap up tickets to the next big stage smash in good time. Coming to London on a wave of Broadway hype that may nonetheless have passed the casual London […]

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Hackney will host London’s first ever festival dedicated to dive bars next month

Photo: Rasputin’sDo you love slightly scuzzy bars? Does the smell of a beer-splashed carpet turn you on? Then you need to head to Hackney, because next month the borough will be hosting London’s first ever dive bar festival. Hackney Altfest […]

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Waitrose is opening its first ever airport shop at this London airport next month

Photograph: John Lewis PartnershipIf you’ve got the mullah to do your weekly food shop in Waitrose, well, you’re bougier than we are. For many of us, a visit to the posh supermarket is reserved for hard-to-find items in an Ottolenghi recipe or […]