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Maroon 5 at BST Hyde Park 2026: set times, last-minute tickets, setlist and what you need to know

Photograph: Maroon 5‘Moves Like Jagger’, ‘Harder to Breathe’ and ‘Sugar’ hitmakers Maroon 5 are in London this week for a huge headline show at BST Hyde Park. Adam Levine and co are set to headline BST’s legendary Great Oak Stage […]

A major West End theatre is getting renamed after legendary playwright Tom Stoppard

© Matt HumphreyA famous story about the two greatest British playwrights of the twentieth century is that Harold Pinter once complained to Tom Stoppard by letter that he felt the Comedy Theatre in the West End should be renamed after him while he […]

‘F**k it, let’s get a Scotch egg’: are bar snacks the new small plates?

Photograph: Time Out There was a time when small plates reigned supreme. Little ceramic dishes displaying ornate arrangements of seasonal veg, shiny squares of ravioli, and blobs of burrata had Londoners at their mercy. We nodded along to waiters explaining […]

‘F**k it, let’s get a Scotch egg’: are bar snacks the new small plates?

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London Marathon 2026: full schedule of start times and waves

April 24, 2026

Photograph: Michaelpuche / Shutterstock.comThe 2026 London Marathon will see a whopping 59,000 people take to the streets of the capital this coming Sunday, April 26. London’s version of the massive 26.2-mile race is one of the biggest in the world, alongside the […]

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The 7 best free things to do in London this weekend [April 24-26 2026]

April 24, 2026

Photography: Shutterstock / Sampajano AnizzaThe last weekend of April is heading our way and what a splendid – and spenny – month it’s been. First, the Easter bank holiday weekend imperilled our finances with four lovely days off, spent squandering […]

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The London Marathon 2026 full weather forecast: temperature and rain predictions for Sunday

April 23, 2026

Photograph: mikecphoto / Shutterstock.comYou’ve trained for months, maybe years. You’ve carb-loaded. You’ve put together your motivational playlist. Now it’s time for runners in this year’s London Marathon to line up at the start line and tick a life experience off […]

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This legendary 1930s leisure centre in central London is getting a £44 million makeover

April 23, 2026

Image: Westminster City CouncilWestminster locals, avid Time Out readers and racket sport enthusiasts may remember when, in 2024, we revealed the local council’s proposals for a £42 million glow up of Marylebone’s Seymour Centre. Plans to do up the 1930s […]

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This hyped American cookie chain with more than 200 shops around the world is coming to London

April 23, 2026

Photograph: Alan Budman / Shutterstock.comLate-night cravings keeping you up? A world-renowned cookie chain is here to deliver a promising new midnight snack ritual. A hyped American cookie company is set to open its first London outpost. Founded in a dorm room […]

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This famously posh restaurant company is opening its first ever London hotel – the five-star establishment will take over an old bank in the West End

April 23, 2026

Image: The Wolseley Hospitality GroupYou may have thought it impossible, but Mayfair is about to get even posher thanks to a new project by swanky restaurant The Wolseley. That’s right, darling, the celeb dining spot is turning a former bank […]

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Michael Sheen will return to London’s West End to star in ‘Amadeus’

April 23, 2026

Photograph: lev radin/ShutterstockWay back in 1998, a young Michael Sheen took to the Old Vic stage to play the title role of Peter Shaffer’s brilliant 1979 drama Amadeus, a masterpiece that followed the catastrophic, one-sided rivalry between the young, brilliant composer Wolfgang […]