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Images clockwise from top left: walking through the River Fleet, the top of Millbank Tower open for viewing, London Open Bike Polo Tournament next week and the Regent’s Park allotment The week’s most popular posts, and a round-up of what’s happening around town. In the …

Photo / cakehole Transport for London are investigating after a driverless engineering train was allowed to run for almost four miles early this morning. The train became uncoupled as it was towed along between Archway and Warren Street stations, at around 6.40am, and trundled along …

Jared Kelly An old boxing gym where your grandfather’s pop might’ve battled other pugilists, Queensberry Rules style, is to get a pre-Olympic rebuild. St Pancras Amateur Boxing Club in Kentish Town, which claims to be the oldest boxing club in Britain (something that Borough’s Lynn …

Want to stand in the very place where Boris Johnson held his Mayoral announcement party? Here’s your chance: Altitude 360, the 29th-storey viewing platform on top of Millbank Tower which hosted the event all the way back in 2007, is opening to the public on …

The conspicuous apartment block at Elephant & Castle has won this year’s Carbuncle Cup, the annual award administered by Building Design magazine that seeks to recognise the most flagrantly offensive new build over the past year. The judges noted that, while in an ordinary year …

Any fans of Tony Blair hoping to get a signed copy of the former PM’s messianic new tome, A Journey, on September 8th had best be prepared for a rough ride. Security at the Waterstone’s Piccadilly signing will be tight: cameras, bags, and briefcases are …

Design bloodhound, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment, has stated that it cannot endorse the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower without further work on the proposals. Cabe’s problem? It’s all in the details. Their report says further attention needs to be paid to boring but …

Hyde Park sunset by Simon Crubellier Six-bed flat at One Hyde Park sells for £140 million. The buyer’s identity is a mystery, though Ken Livingstone tries to win over the yoof by attacking a controversial piece of concert bureaucracy Royal Mail releases London Eye commemorative …

Thou shalt have a fishy… This morning, workers at the Heron tower on Bishopsgate took delivery of the huge aquarium that will dominate the building’s reception area and turn it into the ideal shooting location for the next Bond villain’s headquarters. Measuring 12m long, 2m …

Key: Blue (empty) – Red (full). See the map for full breakdown Oliver O’Brien, Research Associate at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has used TfL’s open-source data on cycle hire usage to create this wonderful interactive visualisation of how the bikes are being used. …