Image: Astonmatt76 Can you get the morning off work on Thursday or Friday this week? If so, do so, and head along to the Isle of Dogs. The Thames21 charity is appealing for volunteers to help clean up the particularly trash-prone stretch of the river …
The River Wandle wends its way north from Croydon and Carshalton to join the Thames at Wandsworth. It’s a chalkstream that was hardworking in Victorian times, a sewer in the 60s and has recently been suffocating in pennywort weed. A clean up operation is on …
Three leopard cubs born at Chessington World of Adventures in June have, after a few months nuzzling in momma leopard’s lair, made their first shaky steps into the world. Persian cubs Cyrus, Soraya and Tahmine first poked their heads out in mid September, and since …
In 2002, the BBC pronounced the Cockney Sparrow dead. A year later, they were asking where it was. Sparrow news went cold for a bit, then bounced back in 2006 with the London House Sparrow Project and efforts to find out why the London sparrow …
According to Camden New Journal (print edition), two of the Borough’s more distinctive structures are not long for this world. The Bloomsbury Service Station (right), on Store Street, is reckoned to be London’s oldest garage, pedaling petrol since 1926. Its cornflower blue trimmings are a …
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