He’s climbed the world’s most iconic structures from the Eiffel Tower to the Petronas Towers. But French ‘Spiderman’ Alain Robert chose a curious challenge during his trip to London yesterday: Portland House on Victoria Street. Here’s the brute. As in, here’s Portland House, not Monsieur Robert. He’s much more gorgeous, see ---> The Gallic climber scaled the 320 ft building as a protest against climate change. On reaching the top, he was arrested for wasting......

BBC: A groundwater cooling system is to be tested at Victoria station in an effort to combat soaring temperatures on the Tube over the summer months... The first thing that springs to mind is why wait until June to test the damn thing? It's not like we're shivering down there at anytime. Maybe they'll get it working properly in time for Christmas. But forget that because this is the GOOD bit: Victoria Tube station,......

Hey, hey, hey; more positive (sounding) transport news, hot on the wheels of the Victoria Tube revamp we recently highlighted. According to the Beeb, Network Rail are to invest ‘£4bn into improving the UK's stations over the next 10 years’, including several London termini. As well as much needed refurbs, Euston, Waterloo and Victoria would also see associated commercial and residential developments. Euston Station already has a very large residential population, most of whom......

It's still two days to April Fools, but tell that to the staff at Victoria Tube Station. This roving Londonist correspondent was in the station - the network's busiest - at 8.45pm this evening and was both astonished and entertained to hear the following announcement broadcast on the PA system. It was delivered in a broad and apparently slightly weary and laconic Estuary drawl, and ran (according to hastily scribbled and probably grotesquely inaccurate......