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Now that swine flu is officially a pandemic, the news that two employees of Top Shop on Oxford Street have tested positive brings the total number of London cases to 176 which is still less than the 3415 cases of tuberculosis recorded in London last …

What’s small, green and charges by the hour? We went back to driving school with smart yesterday morning to find the answer. It’s not a solicitor from Mars, but a zero emission electric car whose forbears you may have seen squeezed into central London parking …

By secretlondon123 Not content with bringing London to a standstill, the RMT are threatening further strikes if remaining disputes are not resolved. ‘I’m really pleased. It was a solid success,’ Bob Crow said yesterday. ‘The whole city ground to a halt and the disruption it …

Photo by Phill Price In the beginning there was the atheist campaign, now it seems London buses are to be used to spread the word that drug use isn’t just confined to shifty youths who pinch car stereos. We know it must come as a …

Petrolhead heaven starts this week at Canary Wharf with the 15th annual Motorexpo. There wasn’t much sign that we’re in an economic downturn today with acres of shiny metal and bhp sprinkled around the various plazas and green spaces in Canary Wharf. Exhibitors include Aston …

Reproduced from Going Underground’s blog, courtesy of Annie Mole. The RMT is pulling out all the stops as talks continue to try and avert Tube strikes next week. An alleged memo from RMT leaders to ASLEF members has been published on the Going Underground blog …

Image by gritty-but-pretty It’s lovely isn’t it? Lying in the park, basking in the first sunshine of summer with the chimes of the ice cream van and the singing of birds. Is that the smell of newly-cut grass you detect? No, it’s actually the smell …

Image by chutney bannister As if going on strike (again) over pay and job security wasn’t enough, the RMT have found something else to complain about. Is it Susan Boyle not winning Britain’s Got Talent? Is it the prospect of a scorching summer underground? No, …

Image by Simon Crubellier Were you one of the thousands who composed the perfect 17 syllables to sum up summer in London? Between 18 and 20 May, commuters saw their Twittered haikus projected onto a huge screen at Kings Cross Station as part of a …

Photo by kenchie It’s a hard life for single-homed taxpaying London commuters. They get up at the crack of dawn in far-flung parts of the country, hastily down a cup of tea and hop on the train to work. They battle bravely against late trains, …