Jubiloo Coming To The Southbank
New toilets provide a royal flush neat the London Eye.
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Friday news, including some thrilling news for the other Wills and Kates of the world.
London Eye Gets New Name
The London Eye gets through identities quicker than Dr Who. Its fourth name in 11 years is announced today.
Santa’s Lap: Cross Stitch London Eye
Every day until Christmas the Londonist team will be pointing you in the direction of a Christmas present that (with a bit of luck) you won’t already have on your list. Climb up onto our collective lap and we’ll see what we can move from …
Concorde Could Become Thameside Attraction
A decommissioned Concorde jet currently languishing at Heathrow airport could get an unlikely lease of life, as a new tourist attraction on the Thames. A £22 million plan would see the superannuated, supersonic aircraft transported onto a double-decker floating pontoon near to the London Eye. …
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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 …
Top Chefs Serve Dinner On London Eye
This year’s London Restaurant Festival offers some lucky diners a dinner with a difference: a table in one of the London Eye’s capsules. The line up includes Gordon Ramsay, whose capsule is being auctioned for homelessness charity StreetSmart. Dates are 4th – 18th October and …
Elephant Parade: Cloudia Takes A Ride On The London Eye
London’s temporary herd of 260 painted elephants continues to entertain. A couple of days ago, Mike Reeve spotted the nebulous pachyderm ‘Cloudia’ boarding the London Eye for a quick spin above the capital. Following her nephelauxetic adventure, Cloudia continued a tour of the capital to …
Happy 10th Birthday London Eye
It’s twice as old as us today and if you’re in the vicinity from 7pm tonight, there’ll be a birthday light show and the odd glass of bubbly for lucky passengers. Over the past decade it’s ‘flown’ over 36 million visitors above the Southbank, had …
London Loses Out In Top Landmarks Poll
Don’t like our clock? How about if we field 18 of them? Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Tower Bridge…can you hear us London. Your landmarks took one hell of a beating. A new poll, canvassing 10,000 tourists, finds that London just isn’t interesting enough – at …
