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Image by SabineThole from the Londonist Flickr pool Anyone concerned about not being able to move in London during the Olympics might be interested to hear that the three previous host cities received significantly fewer visitors than expected during the Games. Figures from the European …

Stars of the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods have arrived at that building site at the Primark end of Oxford Street today. 24 full scale, life like, animatronic dinosaurs have moved in, providing a prehistoric, interactive ‘adventure’ to distract you from the fact there’s not …

Neatly packaged as “half anti-guidebook and half urban manual” the Not For Tourists Guide to London is ironically, probably pretty good for a certain kind of tourist. If you shun the double decker bus tour and Blue Badge guides or are newly resident and have …

You may just have noticed all the hoo-ha in recent days about TfL’s bold decision to remove the Thames and Zone boundaries from the Tube map (and the subsequent wrist slap from the Mayor). Not bold enough, we say. Let’s sand away all the extraneous …

Now that 40 years have passed since the Beatles’ Abbey Road photograph was taken, it may be time for the famous crosswalk to be relocated. Tourists, who must dart across the road after having argued who’s going to be the barefoot one, have created quite …

Only In London: Boris wants more tourists. A general purpose, once-size-fits-all protest march has taken place in London today. Boxing looks set to make a comeback at the Royal Albert Hall. A shop-worker has been shot dead and his son injured in a drive-by shooting …

Blame the credit crunch, the pusillanimous dollar, or our overly expensive attractions: whatever the reason, tourist numbers dropped by 4% during 2007, after a downturn in the final six months of the year. Worse is expected: visitor levels are expected to drop 2.7% and 1.2% …

Where do Britons go when, in Christina Aguilera’s parlance, they want to get dirrty? (We’ll give you one guess.) Adding to its ever accumulating pile of accolades, London, according to a poll conducted by hotel site HRS.com, is the preferred destination for dirty weekends away. …