This Week In London’s History Monday – 29th September 1829: The Metropolitan Police is founded by the Home Secretary, Robert Peel. In his honour, members of the force would become colloquially known as ‘bobbies’. Tuesday – 30th September 1928: Alexander Fleming discovers the antibacterial properties of penicillin at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington. Wednesday – 1st October 1868: St Pancras Station is officially opened as the London terminus for the Midland Railway, despite its......

This Week In London’s History Monday – 1st October 1868: St. Pancras Station is officially opened as the London terminus for the Midland Railway, despite its construction being incomplete. Part of the buildings would form the iconic gothic St. Pancras Chambers, which housed the Midland Grand Hotel. Tuesday – 2nd October 1909: Twickenham Stadium hosts its first ever rugby match, with Harlequins beating Richmond 14-10. Wednesday – 3rd October 1975: After three days of......

Last weekend, London played host to the final leg of the IRB World Rugby Sevens series. And, as Twickenham Stadium became a pressure cooker both figuratively and literally (you should see our sunburn), Fiji secured an emphatic victory in winning both the London Sevens cup and the championship for the entire series. Fiji made it quite clear on Saturday that they were going to have little difficulty widening the gap between themselves and nearest......

Over the weekend we received an email in response to our post last week about the 'Smurf' who was arrested for for using threatening words and behaviour at Twickenham Stadium. The email is from "a good friend" of the aforementioned Smurf (who is apparently called Lenny) and explains a few of the mitigating details around the incident. We'll let you be the judge and jury on this one: [Lenny] started his day in Cornwall......

You may have noticed that we skipped this week's mid week listings post. That's because we've decided to roll them into one bumper Friday post combining new tour announcements and a randomly bizarre recommendation of gigs for the week ahead. There's a bumper crop of shows to mention this week, but not until we've stopped laughing at the news that Justin Hawkins of The Darkness bought back a copy of their forthcoming album off......

U2 - Twickenham Stadium - Saturday 18th June A little bit like anal sex and black pudding, seeing U2 live is one of those things you always think you should try but aren't sure how well it's going to go down. But here we are, standing outside Twickenham Stadium in a queue to end all queues on the hotest day of the year, waiting for a chance to finally catch Bono and the boys......