Whether you need medical care, have forgotten a trimming to the Christmas dinner or feel like a festive tipple at a local pub, here are a few of the services that will be operating on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Whether you need medical care, have forgotten a trimming to the Christmas dinner or feel like a festive tipple at a local pub, here are a few of the services that will be operating on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Whether you need medical care, have forgotten a trimming to the Christmas dinner or feel like a festive tipple at a local pub, here are a few of the services that will be operating on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.  

Christmas Day All tube services will be closed and there will be no daytime or Night buses operated by London Buses. The Oxford Tube will operate a special service between Oxford and London Victoria until 1900, calling at Heathrow Airport Central bus station in both directions instead of Hillingdon station.

Enigmatic street artist Banksy has put lifestyle differences in plain sight with a new work found on route to Canary Wharf. The sign, painted on a disused block of convenience stores in Poplar, reads: “Sorry! The lifestyle you ordered is currently out of stock”.

Here is some of the best festive entertainment in the week over Christmas Thursday Lady Beau Peep’s Extraordinary Christmas @The Brickhouse Hackney   Friday The Magician’s Daughter @The Albany Centre Lewisham

A rioter has been given the longest jail sentence to date for the August disturbances in London. Ryan Kichenside was sentenced to five years and ten months in jail for violent disorder, robbery and two counts of burglary at the Inner London Crown Court yesterday.

Reports on the Daily Telegraph website about the Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman were ‘inaccurate and misleading’, the Press Complaints Commission has ruled. The posts, which were published on the blog section earlier this year and written by the Telegraph’s London Editor, Andrew Gilligan, were headlined “Lutfur Rahman councillor charged with fraud” and “Lutfur Rahman: all [...]

Earlier this month, David Cameron visited Shoreditch to mark the anniversary of his Tech City initiative, which seeks to turn east London into the digital capital of Europe. The Prime Minister met with several new online companies, amongst which was Luluvise, the new women-only networking site.

Residents opposing a 12-storey residential development in the Docklands have been backed by Tower Hamlets Council. Over 650 Virginia Quay residents, of 1000, rejected a proposed 12-storey tower block at Newport Avenue, which is currently under the jurisdiction of London Thames Gateway Development Corporation.