Sunset

Photos of gorgeous skies from this last week.

Canary Wharf at sunset.

Every week we select a photo from the Londonist Flickr pool, taken in the last seven days, that illustrates this season or time of year in London. This week, a cloudy sunset as viewed from Lambeth, if the notes on Craig Freeman’s photo page are …

Every week we select a photo from the Londonist Flickr pool, taken in the last seven days, that illustrates this season or time of year in London. This week, in a festival of alliteration, the setting sun creates a suburban silhouette against summer clouds, as …

For those of you who may not already know, the flight ban has been lifted, although questions remain as to when travellers will actually be able to leave or return. This should come as a relief to our friends who happen to be stuck in …

Londonist drinks last night were of a somewhat unusual persuasion. We assembled in Frank’s Bar on the roof of a Peckham multistorey car park to watch (a) the sun go down and (b) intimidatingly cool art students swaggering around the rooftop sculpture park as though …

HMS Belfast gains a frigate-shaped friend. From warships to parsnips, as a floating vegetable garden is announced. Complaints about buses have risen. TfL puts it down to ‘improved complaints procedure’. One-legged fugitive on the hop. Carsten Holler nightclub opens tonight. Image by M@.

Collapsed building: man freed from rubble, destruction probably caused by structural failiure. White Stripes play for Chelsea Pensioners. Senior judge cleared of flashing. Still no give on the Olympic logo. Sean Bean marches on Westminster with some kind of footy gripe. Image ‘Waterloo Sunset’ courtesy …

Listening to the radio on St. George’s Day (last Monday in case you missed it) we heard various proposals for a national anthem for England, something that could be sung at Twickenham to counter the emotion of “Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau” or played at the …

Sunset before five, distinct smell of rotting pumpkin in the air: welcome to November. Before we get round to worrying about the Christmas shopping, there’s the small matter of bonfire night this weekend. As London invented the anniversary, we’d be remiss in not providing a …