London Boroughs What changed across London
Borough news, checked against the source that reported it. A few things a week rather than everything.
The Superloop reaches Havering on 5 September
The SL12 Superloop runs Gants Hill to Rainham across east London from 5 September, free for its first week, and cuts a journey of just over an hour down to about forty minutes.
Lord Mayor's Show 2026: what is on across the City
Plan Saturday 14 November in the City of London: the free Lord Mayor's procession, Guildhall Art Gallery and afternoon walking tours, with times, locations and maps.
Zula comes to Spitalfields
The Marble Arch burger restaurant opens a fast-service sibling at 2e Lamb Street, east London, on Sunday 1 November, with a Spitalfields Wagyu burger the original does not serve.
Coqfighter in Canary Wharf
The Australian-born Korean fried chicken takes its fifth London counter, at Market Halls, 25 North Colonnade, from Wednesday 21 October.
A florist on Brook's Mews
One of the quieter addresses in Mayfair: the working flower room that supplies a London hotel opens to the street, and sells stems singly as well as by the armful.
Aalto Works listed
UNESCO's July session put libraries, workplaces and housing on the World Heritage List — an argument about what deserves keeping that outer London hears every time an estate comes up for demolition.
The UK Biobank yardstick
A China drug trial used 55,319 UK Biobank records as its normal-ageing baseline. For London readers, the shared training data is the key caveat.
Where the watermark runs out
For London readers assessing AI text, Anthropic's invisible Claude watermark weakens on short, factual or code-heavy passages and disappears after paraphrase.
Eleven design districts, no venue
The 24th London Design Festival runs 12 to 20 September across eleven neighbourhood districts, from Walthamstow to Park Royal, with landmark installations including one inside St Paul's.
A visitor centre for the Monument
The brutalist block beside the Monument in the City of London is coming down, and the ground floor of what replaces it is set aside for a cultural and visitor centre — with an exhibition about the Great Fire, and a café.
Nineteen boroughs, one Sunday, no cars
The London Cycling Festival runs on 20 September across 19 boroughs, with more than 30 led rides, four hubs and closed loops in Westminster and Tower Hamlets. Free, but ticketed.
A ten-sided wave on Saturn
For London readers following astronomy: Hubble confirms a strengthening ten-sided wave at Saturn's south pole, distinct from the stable northern hexagon.
The marathon runs twice in 2027
Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 April 2027: the London Marathon runs twice, 100,000 people over the same Greenwich-to-Westminster route, after 1.33 million entered the 2026 ballot.
Oxford Street goes traffic-free
Nine hundred metres of central London from Orchard Street to Great Portland Street, including Oxford Circus, close to buses, taxis, cycles and everything else on wheels.
Open House: nine days, 33 boroughs
The 35th Open House runs 12–20 September across all 33 London boroughs, free. Booking opened at midday on 19 August, but a great deal needs no booking at all.
Route 67 withdrawn, 149 rerouted
TfL proposes withdrawing the 67 and rerouting the 149 in north-east London. Edmonton Green loses a direct link and peak waits go from seven minutes to eight. It closes 20 September.
Totally Thames: a month on the river
Through September the London stretch of the river hosts 100-plus events from Richmond to Barking and Dagenham, including Catherine Yass's work on Blackfriars' disused columns.
Fifteen years, in figures
For London readers tracking Big Tech: Tim Cook's 15 years at Apple end with a $4tn market value, $416bn revenue and 60% lower absolute emissions.
A film of 210 minutes
For London filmgoers following Venice, the 2026 competition's 210-minute Dau leads a 20-film lineup at the 83rd festival.
Which lines are shut over the bank holiday
The Northern line is out above Archway, the Windrush line is on buses south of Canada Water, and Barons Court loses its westbound trains until November. The full outer-London list.
East Summer School returns to the Olympic Park
Three hundred young people, twenty-four workshops, six institutions from BBC Music Studios to ABBA Voyage — and the only entry requirement is living or studying in one of four east London boroughs.
An eclipse read through seven graves in Bow
The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in east London built a walk around the 12 August eclipse, using tree canopies as pinhole projectors and seven 19th-century graves as the route.