Mice, meanwhile, are more pervasive, sneaking into our homes and workplaces, regularly seen scuttling around the edges of Tube platforms.

You'll find Roxy Ball Room at St Mary Axe (opposite the Gherkin, and just a stone's throw from Liverpool Street station).

It sounds like a special episode of Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines. But in 1969, this really happened.

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Highlights of the Design Museum exhibition include a three-metre wide model of the candy pink Grand Budapest Hotel, which was ...

Ossulstone Hundred had its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period and lasted well into the Victorian era. In other words, ...

The 15 stations that will once again enjoy bookswaps are: Acton Town, Cockfosters, Ealing Common, East Finchley, Hammersmith, ...

A star is reborn: how's this for a makeover? 'Splinters Famous British Comedy' read the marquee on opening night of Walthamstow's Granada Theatre on 15 September 1930, a night which delighted ...

Psst! Did you know London has its own biscuit museum? The McVitie's Chocolate Digestives Experience is in town from 2-5 May. McVitie's invented the chocolate digestive biscuit in 1925, meaning we ...

The Globe isn't the only place to catch a slice of Shakespeare this summer. Image: Shakespeare's Globe/Farelight Productions He may be one of the greatest English language writers ever known, but ...