Following the Oscars this weekend there are free film screenings all over town this week. Edify thyself and make new friends running across 5 different genres of movie for no expenditure whatsoever. Monday: The Duke Mitchell Film Club is holding heist night at the Cross …
Damien Hirst has made the Tate’s Christmas by gifting them 4 of his art works. The infamous cow and calf bisected and suspended in formaldehyde, “Mother and Child Divided” is the Turner Prize winning crowning glory. This is a high profile donation, timed for maximum …
That’s right. As from today, King’s Cross Thameslink is no more. The outmoded station on Pentonville Road closed for business yesterday. Services now stop beneath St Pancras International on new platforms (pictured). It seems to be the law these days that anything recently opened must …
One of the greatest Roman hoards ever found in the city is revealed today. Archaeologists working on a site near Moorgate have unearthed 1100 objects of ‘international importance’. The haul includes copper tableware, the ‘large-scale remains of an entire Roman streetscape’ plus ‘the most complete …
The trains have been re-routed, the signage amended, the tube announcements re-recorded (completed, luckily, before the woman behind them was given the heave-ho). The re-opening of St Pancras means that Waterloo’s reign as Britain’s main international train station, a duty it fulfilled without complaint for …
And so, for the next instalment of the Mayor’s Indian Adventure. Day 4: Ken takes the train. Yes, our man of the people took a train from one side of Mumbai to the other and was captured smiling winsomely by a camera phone. As the …
Time Out recently presented St Pancras Station as their inaugural ‘Wonder of London’. Profile Books goes a couple of stages further by including the terminus in its ‘wonders of the world’ series – buildings and monuments, such as the Colosseum, Stonehenge and the Forbidden City, …
Having visited the new-look station at lunch time, we can confirm: that’s one bastard of a roof. Such is the scale and magnificence of St Pancras International, the cleaners will be sweeping up a fine collection of dropped mandibles this evening. We’ve compiled a few …
Unless there were leaves on the line, not enough station staff, delays at Paris holding everything up or industrial action on either side of the Channel, the first Eurostar train should be pulling into its new station at St Pancras this morning. We’ve had a …
St Pancras International has reopened after years of restoration. The sumptious Euston Road frontage to the station was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, one of London’s most important architects. But what else did the Great Scott design in London? The Scotts were a remarkable …
This weekend, Rowan Walker wrote in the Observer of her torturous but strangely addictive experience of training at the Islington Boxing Gym to raise awareness of the fierce campaign to get female boxing recognised as an Olympic Sport for the 2012 Games in London. According …
