More like dandruff: These are the best tweets about London’s snow flurries February 11, 2017 Last night, the Met Office warned the City could get as much as an inch of snow during the evening rush hour. However, things weren't quite that drastic on the ground. Some Londoners questioned whether what fell from the sky could actually be classed as snow at all. Snowing in a half hearted can't be bothered to [...]
London and the South East could get an inch of snow during evening rush hour tonight February 10, 2017 Brace yourselves: London could get as much as an inch of snow during evening rush hour tonight, after the Met Office issued a yellow warning for London and the South East. This morning it said showers in and around the capital could bring accumulations of 2cm-3cm, and warned commuters to brace themselves for disruption to [...]
This is the longest journey you could possibly make in London February 10, 2017 While wearing our curiosity-oriented thinking cap the other day, a stray thought struck us. What are the two furthest points from each other within Greater London? We presumed someone else would have already calculated this, but a Google search later left us none the wiser. That's when we decided to grab the cartographic bull by [...]
Don’t be boring this Valentine’s day: Here are six things to do instead of going out for dinner February 10, 2017 There are heart stickers plastered on every shop window, and you can’t seem get away from all the his’n’hers gift guides. It can only mean one thing – Valentine's day is on its way. By now the most romantic (and poshest) restaurants are booked up – but dinner is boring anyway, right? For a creative way [...]
Prodigal Londoners outspend the rest of the country by hundreds of thousands February 10, 2017 London households can expect to burn through £2.3m over the course of a lifetime, dwarfing the UK’s average expenditure by almost half a million. Investment manager Tilney unveiled the discrepancy in its Cost of Tomorrow Report, which also revealed that the average British household has spent their first million by the age of 50, while [...]
Bank of England governor Mark Carney commits to curbing jargon to win back trust in “dreaded experts” February 9, 2017 Mark Carney has spoken of the need for the Bank of England (BoE) to cut back on technical language to win back public trust, saying “not everyone wants to be steeped in fan charts, modelling and stress testing”. Speaking at a BoE inclusion event tonight, Carney said: “To communicate to both the City and the [...]
The case for the Garden Bridge is “weaker than in 2014” says the Treasury February 9, 2017 A Treasury report has questioned the business case for London’s controversial Garden Bridge. Officials told MPs that “the overall case for the project is weaker today than it was in 2014”. In an analysis sent to Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, Treasury permanent secretary Tom Scholar said there are “significant uncertainties” about some of the benefits the [...]
Severe delays on the Jubilee line due to faulty train at St John’s Wood February 9, 2017 There are severe delays on the Jubilee line this afternoon, due to a faulty train. Transport for London said the disruption, which is affecting services on the entire line, was caused by a faulty train at St John's Wood. TfL said it was currently fixing the broken down train. https://twitter.com/jubileeline/status/829691495926083589 The Jubilee line was disrupted [...]
A Middle Eastern royal has spent £21 million on a garage in one of London’s most expensive districts February 9, 2017 A Middle Eastern royal has come up with a clever way of dealing with London's notoriously difficult parking system, spending £21 million to buy an entire parking garage. According to a report in The Times, the unnamed Gulf royal bought the parking garage in the Knightsbridge district of the capital to store their collection of [...]
Four stations, 65,000 extra journeys and 25,000 homes: TfL just gave us more details about its massive Bakerloo Line extension February 9, 2017 Transport for London (TfL) has set out new details about its much-anticipated Bakerloo Line extension, which will stretch from Elephant and Castle to Lewisham. TfL's plans include four new stations – two on Old Kent Road, one interchange at New Cross Gate and one at Lewisham, although it added there is potential for a further [...]