Exhibition centre ExCeL London has said 2020 will be its best year ever with 24 new or relocating shows heading east to the Royal Docks.
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London received a boost worth nearly £37 million to its economy by hosting the first ever regular season Major League Baseball game in Europe in Stratford.
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Use your loaf. Cockney rhyming slang evolved, so it’s said, so the costermongers and potato barkers of the traditional Victorian East End markets could trade chat without the punters catching their drift.
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The sixth Winter Lights festival brings together 25 unique light installations from all over the globe, with some old favourites returning. Here’s a sneak peek at the seven first-timers.
Planning permission has been granted for the first phase of the £3.5 billion Silvertown Quays development on the Royal Docks.
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Mmm, how to describe a Helaine Blumenfeld sculpture. Drunk fungi? Coy pencil sharpenings? Oyster innards? The result of a misguided angel breeding programme?
Punch tracking has moved on a lot since you were decking gormless Ren, Tyrone and Pierre on Wii Sports. Now we’re in the era of cutting-edge shadow boxing – and it’s going to be as big as AJ’s bicep in 2020.
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The Woolwich Ferry was closed at the weekend. Lack of staff this time. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who uses the service. Every day is a lottery. One boat, two boats, no boats. Some staff, angry staff, striking staff, no staff.
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The Royal Albert Dock will play host to the finish of the prestigious and gruelling Clipper Round the World Yacht race in the summer next year.
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There’s only so much chocolate, panto, tinsel and inanity you can take over the festive period. At some point, the bloated brain cells protest and demand sustenance – and that doesn’t mean brussel sprouts. Here’s where you can go in London to blow the cobwebs out the breadbasket and get some culture at Christmas.
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Apple has upgraded payments on the Tube meaning that people can move faster through the barriers.
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Creative cocktail bar and restaurant The Alchemist – working to the mission “theatre served” – will open its biggest venue yet in the capital in a prime location at Canary Wharf on Friday (29 November).