You know what’s better than an indulgent sampling of a range of organic chocolates? An indulgent sampling of a range of organic chocolates while checking out the panoramic view from the London Eye. Yep, from 6th October, London Eye will partner up with UK luxury organic chocolate makers, Green & Black’s, to offer folks a chance to eat some of Britain’s yummiest chocolates while enjoying one of London’s most commanding view … for a......

Visitors to the London Eye yesterday were treated to an extended journey courtesy of a tyre which required repair mid-ride. Whilst a normal trip flies by in roughly half an hour, this fateful trip left sightseers watching nearly 60 minutes tick past on Big Ben before service resumed. Fortunately each capsule comes equipped with an emergency store of blankets, water and tasty glucose tablets, so passengers didn't have to resort to cannibalism. Let this......

Londonist likes chocolate. And children. (Especially other people's). And good charitable causes. So we were more than happy to hop on the London Eye last night to see the premier of Lindt's Easter Light Show, in aid of ChildLine. And to take part in the demolishing of a couple of gold Lindt bunnies. (Hey, we didn’t say anything about liking bunnies...) Renowned Swiss light artist, Gerry Hofstetter (you might remember he projected a polar......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Tower Bridge - Although I have done quite a lot of processing on this, I really wanted to get an un-cliched image of an icon that's been done to death. It was also a really weird light that day, which has......

• Londonist pondered who might be the next sponsors of the London Eye and whether or not readers would be willing to donate £1,000 each for a Londonist Eye.
• Shanghaiist was shocked to find a cameltoe in the city's only English-language paper.
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BA are to withdraw sponsorship of the London Eye from next month. The airline says its 'sponsorship priorities have changed', and it no longer wishes to support the attraction, which it has sponsored since the wheel's inception. So who's going to take over? Well, it was revealed today that Boris has a £1 million campaign fund to play with. Might we see straw barnets atop every pod? How about Wagon Wheels, those wholesome chocolatey......

Right, so you're either saving up to blow the last of the December salary on one helluva NYE out or you're just stony broke after Christmas/sales shopping. Either way, unless you're happy to simply hibernate for the week here are some ideas for New Year jollity on a budget. New Year's Eve: Follow our top tips and gird your loins for the massive fireworks display along the Thames, focusing on the London Eye and......

The Christmas turkey is cold and in sandwiches. A few of us have struggled back to work, carrying surplus chocolate to the office in a desperate attempt to stop our expanding waistlines. Which must mean it's about time to start panicking about what to do on New Year's Eve. Aside from rammed pubs, pricey nightclubs and awkward parties in someone's frontroom, the main focus for London will be squarely on the London Eye. Since......

Time Out recently presented St Pancras Station as their inaugural 'Wonder of London'. Profile Books goes a couple of stages further by including the terminus in its 'wonders of the world' series - buildings and monuments, such as the Colosseum, Stonehenge and the Forbidden City, whose 'names will be familiar to almost everyone'. We're not sure if the station is quite in that category yet. It's doubtful it has anything like the global and......

This chesty old hoare-nut comes round time and again. What's the most emblematic edifice in the capital? To end all debate, Londonist went in for a more scientific approach than petty arguing on a forum. We visited all the London web sites we could think of. In each case, we noted down which structures the site features in its logo or banner. The one chosen by the most websites wins. So was it Tower......

The Telegraph talks about our foreign rich people and how they'd look on Booth's poverty map. Including this wanted Russian oligarch. The London Eye - who would now dare pull it down? Memorial service marks 10th anniversary of the death of The People's Princess. Gawd rest her soul. Flickr image from Malias' photostream.......

Another random killing by knife-wielding teens. National Express win GNER route. Free wifi for all passengers. Woo-hoo! Growing tension at the Heathrow climate change demo. Is the London Eye going to be renamed the McCartney Eye? We prefer the Ringo Wheel. Image courtesy of DICKSDAILY via the Londonist flickr group.......

Previewed on here a week ago, London's India Now season launched yesterday with a party at the London Eye and an intricate replica of the Taj Mahal floating down the Thames. As we predicted, Shilpa Shetty did indeed haul herself to the event. We hear rumours that her agent called the Mayor's Office in a bit of a tiz and begged for her to be involved. The season lasts through until September, and includes......

From next week London will be hosting India Now, a three-month season of events exploring London’s relationship with India and India's culture. It all kicks off with a hefty PR stunt on the morning of 17 July, when a replica of the Taj Mahal will sail down the Thames. Yes, really. It will start from Millbank and head down-stream - pausing for photo opps beside Parliament, the London Eye and Tate Modern. Somewhat like......

We are the people who live in London. Some of us are born here and some of us will die here. Some of us have been here forever and some came here yesterday. Some of us will stay forever, like it or not. We have been those people for nearly 2000 years and our consciousness has shaped our environment from our gardens to Parliament, from our market stalls to the London Eye. The way......

The whole country is still mid-way through the respectable mourning period after our annual Eurovision trouncing. Scooch's camp ditty about aviation unfortunately crashed and burned (boo!), and with no survivors (phew!).Perhaps the ultimate in cheesy music requires more planning time? Five years out, BBC London is already well-advanced in its contest to pen a new 'anthem' for London's Olympics. A panel of experts in this type of thing has already picked through the detritus......

Ah, the glamorous life of the street entertainer. These fine fellows were photographed yesterday in Jubilee Gardens, near the London Eye. Feel the giddy abandon and joie de vivre of South Bank performers at the very top of their game. Whoever can think of the best caption wins some chocolate coated nuts and an annoying bird-whistle-flute-type thing*. *Not really.......

Once it was a name that evoked magic, dreams and destiny. In recent years it's taken on connotations of folly, nightmare and derision, but now it looks finally as if Wembley might be ready to resume its place at the very top of the pantheon of British sporting venues. The troubled new stadium has been granted its fire alarm safety certificate, the first tangible evidence that it might really be ready to hold all......

Here's an alert from the Westminster Police Security Desk: This message is to give you and your business, colleagues and friends advanced warning of Intermittent but significant additional Helicopter activity from 0800- 1600hrs (weather permitting) between Tuesday 5/02/07 and Wednesday 6/02/07. This is due to the filming of a major new film. Filming will take place over The London Eye / Victoria Embankment SW1 / River Thames between Westminster Bridge & Hungerford Bridge. Some......

The wheel of misfortune. Another grim, bleak image from Kurt Roberts, who shows us why the London Eye is normally operated at only two revolutions per hour. Come on London, let's have something more upbeat next time. Keep sending your photoshopped images of London in to londonist - at - gmail - dot - com......

Well, this one completely passed us by. Man dresses up as James Bond, swims across Thames, scales the London Eye, then throws himself off. Superb. It's been done before, of course, but still, superb. Plummeting tomfool Gary Connery from Maidenhead shares many characteristics with 007. The surname, obviously, but also that silver-tongued way with a bon mot. Reporter: How was it Gary? Gary: Yeah, great, fantastic. Marvellous. Just like a real, grown up spy,......

It's New Years Eve and if like us you're very bad at making plans more than 12 hours in advance, you might be looking for something to do tonight. Equally if you were planning to go to The Truman Show in Shoreditch then you should probably know that it's been cancelled due to 'surprise' secret acts The Kooks pulling out due to illness. In any case here are our top tips: For the danceheads:......

We're getting a 10-minute firework display to see in 2007: A sound and light show, including giant building projections, will precede the pyrotechnics at the London Eye, the mayor's office said. There will be free travel on selected services and no congestion charge between Christmas and the New Year. Mayor Ken Livingstone said the free travel would make it "easier to get out and about and safely home". Cool. We're already warming to the......

If you're currently running round shops trying to fill a Secret Santa for a person you barely know, then you simply can't go wrong with Muji's London in a Bag. Literally what it says on the tin (bag), this is a mini wooden version of famous London landmarks, all in a nice bag, and has been padding out our Christmas presents for the last few years. You get a London Eye, a Gherkin, a......

We picked neonlike's great shot of a London Eye pod simply because of the title. trapped We'll try to forget that the next time the door seals behind us.........

Calm down, it's not a very slow invasion - just yet another cool thing for us all to gawk at: Today a pioneering airship adventure is being launched in London. 'The Spirit of Dubai', the largest commercial airship in the world, will begin a unique journey from London to Dubai, visiting many of the world's most famous landmarks on the way. It is planned that the journey will take in landmarks including Big Ben,......

We love it when landmarks try and sneak up on you. Reminds us of Spiny Norman shouting for Dinsdale... Fair play then to catya_maria007 for helping the London Eye surprise us.......

Few would have suspected that the London Eye harbours a transdimensional wormhole. Including the crew of the NCC 1701, who stumbled through the anomaly, only to collide with Portcullis House (not pictured). Image may not be based on actual events. Background photo taken from The Killer Biscuit's Flickr photostream. Keep sending in those doctored images of London to londonist - at - gmail - dot - com. There will be a prize for the......

A tenuous London connection this, but just about everyone yapping about the newly discovered Titan cave in in the Peak District can't resist comparing it to the London Eye: Titan is thought to be almost 460ft (140m) deep, as high as the London Eye, sculpted out of limestone by rain water over millions of years. Since when was a giant spokey thing with pods of tourists attached to it a recognised unit of measurement?......

We couldn't resist the chance to ride up to the London Eye on a horse... Found via Constitution Hill who pointed us over to the Digitally Distributed Environments website, which has enough virtual London eye candy to choke a horse with.......