London Boroughs — news https://lnd.lol/ London beyond the centre, borough by borough, with the source on every entry. en-GB Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Lord Mayor's Show 2026: what is on across the City https://lnd.lol/news/lord-mayors-show-2026-route-and-viewing-guide/ https://lnd.lol/news/lord-mayors-show-2026-route-and-viewing-guide/ Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Heritage 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 opens a second burger restaurant in Spitalfields on 1 November https://lnd.lol/news/zula-opens-in-spitalfields-on-1-november/ https://lnd.lol/news/zula-opens-in-spitalfields-on-1-november/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Food 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 opens at Market Halls Canary Wharf on 21 October https://lnd.lol/news/coqfighter-opens-at-market-halls-canary-wharf/ https://lnd.lol/news/coqfighter-opens-at-market-halls-canary-wharf/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT Food The Australian-born Korean fried chicken takes its fifth London counter, at Market Halls, 25 North Colonnade, from Wednesday 21 October. The florist that dresses Claridge's has a shop on Brook's Mews https://lnd.lol/news/claridges-flowers-is-on-brooks-mews/ https://lnd.lol/news/claridges-flowers-is-on-brooks-mews/ Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shops 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. Thirteen ordinary Finnish buildings just got the same protection as a cathedral https://lnd.lol/news/unesco-lists-thirteen-buildings-by-alvar-aalto/ https://lnd.lol/news/unesco-lists-thirteen-buildings-by-alvar-aalto/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture 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. A British research archive decided whether a drug trial in China had touched ageing at all https://lnd.lol/news/the-uk-biobank-yardstick-behind-an-ageing-drug-trial/ https://lnd.lol/news/the-uk-biobank-yardstick-behind-an-ageing-drug-trial/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Science 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. Claude now watermarks its writing, and the interesting part is where the mark runs out https://lnd.lol/news/what-claudes-new-watermark-cannot-tell-you/ https://lnd.lol/news/what-claudes-new-watermark-cannot-tell-you/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tech For London readers assessing AI text, Anthropic's invisible Claude watermark weakens on short, factual or code-heavy passages and disappears after paraphrase. The London Design Festival has eleven districts, and not one of them is a building https://lnd.lol/news/eleven-design-districts-and-not-one-of-them-is-a-venue/ https://lnd.lol/news/eleven-design-districts-and-not-one-of-them-is-a-venue/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture 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. After 349 years, the Monument may finally get somewhere to explain itself https://lnd.lol/news/the-monument-may-finally-get-a-visitor-centre/ https://lnd.lol/news/the-monument-may-finally-get-a-visitor-centre/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Heritage 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 give a Sunday to the bicycle https://lnd.lol/news/nineteen-boroughs-close-a-road-for-a-bicycle/ https://lnd.lol/news/nineteen-boroughs-close-a-road-for-a-bicycle/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Outdoors 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. Saturn’s south pole has drawn itself a decagon https://lnd.lol/news/a-ten-sided-wave-at-saturns-south-pole/ https://lnd.lol/news/a-ten-sided-wave-at-saturns-south-pole/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Science For London readers following astronomy: Hubble confirms a strengthening ten-sided wave at Saturn's south pole, distinct from the stable northern hexagon. The London Marathon will be run twice, on consecutive days, once only https://lnd.lol/news/the-marathon-runs-twice-in-2027/ https://lnd.lol/news/the-marathon-runs-twice-in-2027/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Sport 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 loses its traffic in the second half of October https://lnd.lol/news/oxford-street-goes-traffic-free/ https://lnd.lol/news/oxford-street-goes-traffic-free/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Transport 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. For nine days, buildings that are never open, open https://lnd.lol/news/open-house-festival-turns-35/ https://lnd.lol/news/open-house-festival-turns-35/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture 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. Two north London bus routes are being redrawn — and one goes https://lnd.lol/news/bus-routes-67-and-149-consultation/ https://lnd.lol/news/bus-routes-67-and-149-consultation/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Transport 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. A hundred events and a light work on a bridge that carries nothing https://lnd.lol/news/totally-thames-2026/ https://lnd.lol/news/totally-thames-2026/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Culture 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, four trillion dollars, and a closing balance https://lnd.lol/news/fifteen-years-of-apple-in-numbers/ https://lnd.lol/news/fifteen-years-of-apple-in-numbers/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Tech 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. Venice has programmed a film of two hundred and ten minutes https://lnd.lol/news/venice-has-programmed-a-film-of-210-minutes/ https://lnd.lol/news/venice-has-programmed-a-film-of-210-minutes/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Film For London filmgoers following Venice, the 2026 competition's 210-minute Dau leads a 20-film lineup at the 83rd festival. The Superloop reaches Havering on 5 September https://lnd.lol/news/sl12-superloop-gants-hill-rainham/ https://lnd.lol/news/sl12-superloop-gants-hill-rainham/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Transport 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. Which lines are shut over the bank holiday https://lnd.lol/news/bank-holiday-tube-and-tfl-closures/ https://lnd.lol/news/bank-holiday-tube-and-tfl-closures/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Transport 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.