It's our weekly London
roundup starting with a few headlines that caught the eye in London this week,
click the links for the full stories…
PROPERTY: Microhouses & Hostels For Young Londoners – Financial Times
MONEY: High Wages In London – City A.M
GOSSIP: Another "Controversial" Diana Play – Daily Mail
TOURISM: Big Tourism Spend Predicted for 2015 – BBC
TRANSPORT: Are We Deserting Public Transport? – Huffington Post
TRANSPORT: Is the Emirates Airline Cable Car A Failure? – Daily Mail
WALKING: Shoes That Charge A Mobile Phone – Daily Mail
ZOOLOGY: Restoration for the Quagga at The Grant Museum – The Guardian
ART: Portobello Road Project Seeks Artists – Go West London
BOOKS: The Fight Against Filth – The Guardian
TRANSPORT: The Driverless Car - London 24
Looking Ahead…
Coming Up In London This Year… The London Festival of
Architecture takes place this June. Details of the festival, with its theme of
"Work In Progress" can be found at dexigner.com .
London's leading
theatre critic Mark Shenton is looking ahead to a bumper year for London
theatre. Such names as Damian Lewis, Benedict Cumberbatch and Kristin Scott
Thomas will be returning to the London stage this year. You can read his full
preview piece, published this week in Playbill at
And it's also worth
noting that Central Line trains will be non-stopping at Tottenham Court Road
station during 2015. Full story on the BBC website HERE.
Rugby World Cup 2015 matches – including the final - will be played in London in September and October.
London's venues are Wembley Stadium, the Olympic Stadium and Twickenham. The first match is on 18th September with the final on the 31st October.
England will take on Australia, Fiji, Wales (at Twickenham) and Uruguay in the group stage; Scotland will meet South Africa, Samoa, Japan and the USA; and Ireland will play France, Italy (Olympic Stadium), Romania (Wembley) and Canada.
Reigning champs New Zealand, the famous All Blacks, will be up against Argentina (at Wembley), Namibia (Olympic Stadium), Tonga and Georgia.
We'll post a special London Rugby series later in the year here on The Daily Constitutional and we will of course be blogging along with the action and chatting to our rugby visitors on our London Walks.
Our weekly slot in which we point you in the direction of
other happenings and events in our great city. A new exhibition, a gig, a
museum, a pop-up-shop – the best of London within a few minutes of a London Walks walking tour.
The Prince Charles
Cinema in Soho is presenting a season of classic films this month. Among them
will be Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
The Prince Charles
will also be home this year to a sweeping 007 retrospective!
Keep an eye out for
London Walks guide Richard IV leading his Hitchcock walks – visit www.walks.com The next one is on 21st February.
Visit the Prince
Charles website here: www.princecharlescinema.com
Seen In London This Week…
We shared this one on
Twitter last Sunday. It seems to have struck a chord with many a
Christmassed-out London Walker. The Christmas tree that was so sick of Christmas that it ended at all by jumping into the Regent's Canal…
Seen in London This Week II…
Work with what you are given - it's a good motto. With that in mind, how about this, spotted on the Charing Cross Road. A pop-up bag shop has opened in the old Foyles building. Rather than waste a perfectly good sign, they have simply dropped the S and the F from Foyles and have come up with…
London Spy will be back next Saturday!
A
London Walk costs £9 – £7 concession. To join a London Walk, simply meet your
guide at the designated tube station at the appointed time. Details of all
London Walks can be found at www.walks.com.
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