I’ve just made my first WordPress widget, and I’m very proud..! Actually, it’s not all that impressive, and probably duplicates functionality already available in other plugins, but it fulfils our needs, and hopefully will be useful to someone else out there, too. It’s essentially an enhanced version of the standard WP Links widget. I extracted [...]

A high-speed ‘Javelin’ train, which will be used to transport Olympic athletes between King’s Cross and Stratford, went into service on Sunday.

I will be posting development news and notes here, so stay tuned for code-snippets and other WordPress stuff, as I discover it!

Last Saturday commuters marched through Charing Cross station laden with an empty coffin to mark the end of Southern railway’s Charing Cross service.

Sweeping through five boroughs, dozens of police officers recently carried out a major operation to disrupt London’s vice trade, removing cards from phone boxes and making several arrests. Yet despite widespread reports of a rise in trafficking and prostitution associated with the Olympic construction site, the drive was not considered necessary in any of the [...]

An artist from Lewisham played chess for 24 hours at an exhibition in east London this week.

A man raped by an illegal taxi driver from Deptford warned last week of the dangers of using unlicensed mini-cabs.

The Geffrye Museum in Hackney have invoked the ghosts of Christmases past with their annual journey through 400 years of English history.

It’s that time of year again – Christmas decorations are lighting up the streets and the shops are beginning to get seriously crowded. But it’s also the run up to the election and political tensions are high in London, as a councillor defects to the Tories and Croydon and Tory councils reject the Government website [...]