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Chart toppers Rizzle Kicks team up with TfL to help reduce teenage road casualties in London

Chart toppers Rizzle Kicks team up with TfL to help reduce teenage road casualties in London

September 27, 2011 No Comments

Young Londoners are being asked to come up with ideas to help their peers avoid road accidents for the chance to meet chart toppers Rizzle Kicks. Last year 258 teenagers were killed or seriously injured on London’s roads and distractions such as using mobile phones, MP3 players and talking to friends often contribute to this. ...

All aboard London’s river services for The Mayor’s Thames Festival

All aboard London’s river services for The Mayor’s Thames Festival

September 7, 2011 No Comments

It’s all hands on deck this weekend as London River Services and its operators get ready to help celebrate the annual Mayor’s Thames event with a very special offer. During the whole weekend of 10 and 11 September  river operators including Thames Clippers, City Cruises, Crown River Cruises, Turk Launches, Tate to Tate and Parr’s ...

The best way to get to Notting Hill Carnival: Sunday 28 – Bank Holiday Monday 29 August 2011

The best way to get to Notting Hill Carnival: Sunday 28 – Bank Holiday Monday 29 August 2011

August 19, 2011 No Comments

Europe’s largest street festival – the Notting Hill Carnival – returns to the streets of west London on August Bank Holiday weekend. With the area closed off to traffic, the easiest way to enjoy the sights and sounds of Carnival 2011 is to travel by bus or Tube, on bike or by foot. In order ...

National Gallery in historic collaboration with Louvre, Paris

National Gallery in historic collaboration with Louvre, Paris

July 29, 2011 No Comments

The National Gallery and the Louvre announce a unique collaboration which brings both versions of the ‘Virgin of the Rocks’ together for the very first time (see pics below). The two pictures will be shown at The National Gallery’s exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter of the Court of Milan from 9 November 2011 – 5 ...

Companies fined after Arsenal stadium injury

Three construction companies were fined after a worker helping build Arsenal’s Ashburton Grove stadium was injured so badly, his...

New pensions research undermines government’s ‘fairness’ myth

New research by the PCS union has revealed that the perception of Civil Servants having gilt pensions compared to...