The sound of canons will be heard across London today as Her Majesty the Queen celebrates her official birthday with the annual Trooping the Colour event.

A 41 gun-salute will be fired at 12.52pm from the Tower of London, followed at 1.00pm by a 62 gun-salute from Green Park.

Each year Somerset House open-air cinema attracts thousands of film-lovers to view classic movies, old and new.

Which London hotel was Hazel Blears, the former Cabinet Member, staying in whilst she was ‘between flats’ in London? Find out here.

Ice and snow related happenings in London this Christmas

Hotel-Assist.com has launched a resource section to their London hotel website.
Within this new addition, clients can easily navigate to important London listings and links to newspapers, tour operators, maps and currency exchange.
Of assistance to both leisure and busines travellers is a page offering information on how to book theatre seats at discount prices.
The resources page [...]

Composed and submitted by Becky Colley
As a Mancunian girl, and therefore a Northerner through and through, it’s bred into me to hate ‘The South’. So imagine my surprise when I visited London for the first time this time last year and instantly fell in love.
Don’t get me wrong, Manchester is a fantastic [...]

Explanation:
Perhaps I could rename it, “Fear and Loathing in London”. I might say that the whole thing is a parody of the poet, the melancholic universe created by the young hopeless pedestrian, flashing eyes at everything around him, his heart seething with discontent.
When I wrote this, I was just in that “state of mind”. Reason [...]

Extreme took the music scene by storm in 1990 with their debut album numbers like ‘Get The Funk Out’ and the Number 1 hit ballad ‘More Than Words’. The bands familiar sound is a mix of hard rock funk in the spirit & style of their predecessors Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Queen & Van Halen – [...]

Strange topic for a London tourism site but we have had several requests about where to buy gold in London and where to stay nearby.
The main source that we know of is ATS BULLION which deals over the counter in gold coins and bullion so if you fancy impressing your friends get there [...]

London. The streets are paved in gold. It’s the place where everyone who is anyone comes. It’s the city that never sleeps. It’s where the rich and famous play, right? Well, er, kind of…
I moved to London just over a year ago from Vancouver, Canada - arguably one of the most clean, healthy and [...]