The problem should have been obvious to any school child. Point a concave surface towards the sun and it'll concentrate the rays into a beam of light, and thereby generate heat. The Walkie Talkie not ...

A beloved Shoreditch food shop and community kitchen faces closure later this year — with the threat from Tower Hamlets Council that if it doesn't pay triple the current rent, it'll be evicted.

That's what Marcia Bennett-Male, the UK's only Black female stonemason, tells Londonist about her statue of forgotten Londoner, Mary Woolaston, newly unveiled at Calthorpe Community Garden, on Gray's ...

We've rounded up some of the more important ones from living memory, concentrating on proper 'experiences', rather than individual venues or businesses that we miss (see London buildings destroyed in ...

Route length: 2.2km (1.4 miles). The optimal route makes use of the networks of passages around Fleet Street and Strand. These are ponderous to describe so if you do the pub crawl in real life, you ...

This is a sponsored article on behalf of Scale. Paul McCartney's Höfner bass. Joan Jett’s Melody Maker. Dave Grohl's Gibson Trini Lopez. Just a few of the many esteemed instruments you're invited to ...

Lee Apsey appears with Crime Scene Improvisation at Wiltons Music Hall, east London on 4 July 2025, before heading to Edinburgh. *Ed's note: where was Sophie Ellis-Bextor that night?

Bounce first opened its doors in 2012, shortly after the London Olympics — and perhaps spurred on by a sudden surge in table tennis' popularity. The chain currently offers pimped-up ping pong in ...

Grabbing the attention of the average train passenger isn't all that easy these days, but the 200ft-long, 15ft-high billboard outside Clapham Junction station — aka the 'Clapham Colossus' — is in a ...

And while September's Back to Hogwarts Days no longer seems to be a thing (not officially anyway), perhaps Harry's birthday will take the mantle.

Comedian and actor Adam Riches has dabbled in sports before now; a decade ago his jock-tastic comedy Coach Coach ripped into hokey basketball/baseball/football movies of the 80s and 90s, but Jimmy — ...

While the 64cm-tall, 180cm-long skeleton isn't on the same scale as Dippy (let's face it, Enigmacursor is a mere slip of a dino), unlike the celebrity diplodocus, it is a bona fide skeleton rather ...