Euston

The anxiously-awaited announcement of the route for the Birmingham-London high speed rail link will arrive later today, assuming that like many other rail services across the country, it isn’t delayed by snow.

Olympic competitors are to get their own bus depot. Seems posh hotels are being inundated with bookings for 2012. Ken has picked Val Shawcross as his running mate. A Stradivarius has been lifted from a passenger at Euston. A food bank has been set up …

A round-up of today’s news, including David Cameron’s vow to clear ‘Democracy Village’ in Parliament Square ahead of the Royal Wedding.

Image / Lady Vervaine Today marks the final time that the articulated version of the number 18 bus wends its bendy way between Euston and Sudbury. From tomorrow, the route will be served by a fleet of new double-decker vehicles, and the frequency will correspondingly …

A fundraising themed illustration, selected by fiddling some crucial numbers… 11 Londonistas and readers are undertaking the Maggie’s Cancer Care Centres 20 mile night hike 20 miles, around London, overnight. 20 miles! 920 pounds raised so far which is… 37 per cent of our target …

Having grown wearily accustomed to considering (for aviation’s sake) Luton and Stansted as part of the capital, could Birmingham be the next conurbation roped into London’s orbit? Not quite, despite the Telegraph’s excitable sub-editors. Birmingham Airport’s chief executive is, however, touting his facility’s potential to …

Crunching the Londonist numbers, just for you… 50 metres up in the air: would you take a cable car over the Thames? 50 year old cables melted in a fire at Barking station, causing delays and closures on the Hammersmith & City and District lines …

If you head down Midland Road, between St Pancras and the British Library, you’ll come across a sizeable patch of empty ground on the fringes of Somers Town. Well, here’s what’s going to fill it. The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (or UKCMRI …

The Magic Circle, that famous club of magicians, has since 1998 enjoyed headquarters at 12 Stephenson Way, Euston, a cobbled street that has a touch of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell about it. Inside, a magnificent set of rooms houses a theatre, museum of illusion …

A fire at a block of flats beside Euston station has left one person dead. The blaze began early this morning in Grafton Place, and at its height, 60 firefighters were at the scene battling the flames. Aside from the one fatality, all other occupants …