bees

London’s honey producers go head to head at Royal Festival Hall

Rogue apians swarmed in N10 last Friday forming a ‘perfect ellipse’ of bee terror.

Visit the walk in bee hive for some apiary action.

Remember these poor bees, reduced to hanging round a Soho lamp post earlier this year? Shocking. Spare a fiver of your hard-earneds and you could help house a bee in its very own Brutalist high rise.

Back in the summer of 2009, the Lancaster London became the first central London hotel to install beehives on its roof. A half million bees later (talk about sweet occupancy rate!), the hotel had its first honey harvest this summer and is now making their …

Medieval & Renaissance gallery at the Victoria & Albert museum. Photo / Sinister Pictures After flirting with the idea, Tony Blair has decided to cancel his London book signing. Police are looking for two people in connection with the MI6 worker found dead in his …

Looking at the personalities behind London’s small businesses Zoe Palmer and Aisha Forbes founded The Golden Company, a social enterprise based in Hackney that empowers inner city young people with business and life skills through beekeeping. How did The Golden Company come about? “I was …

‘A low budget horror movie’ is how photo snapper @PopeRamone describes this scence on Wardour Street yesterday. Hundreds of urban bees fixated on a lamp post before moving on to Portland Place, where a bee keeper took control of the rogue apians. Michael Caine was …

An ecological centre in Lambeth has hit upon a novel idea for bee-housing: they’ve built a scale model of the Trellick tower for their resident bees to pollinate. The 1.6m-tall, 31-storey tower, built from timber blocks, has holes bored into the length of it, which …

Honeydrippin’ photography by Chris Osburn Back in July, half a million honey bees checked in at the Lancaster London, making it the first central London hotel to install beehives on its roof. Yesterday, the hotel’s “Bee Team” invited us round to have a taste of their …