A mid‑August heatwave forecast to push temperatures to about 34°C has prompted a high pollution alert across London, with City Hall and Imperial College warning that hot, sunny conditions will lift ozone levels and advising vulnerable people to limit exposure. The Mayor’s office says the expanded Ultra Low Emission Zone…

The former Springfield Hospital in Tooting has been remade as Springfield Village, a health‑led mixed‑use neighbourhood featuring two new mental‑health buildings, around 1,288 homes and a 32‑acre park officially opened on 10 July 2025. Springfield Hospital in Tooting has been reborn as Springfield Village, a mixed‑use neighbourhood that places modern…

An Evening Standard travel feature spotlights Runnymede Pleasure Grounds at Egham as an accessible, family-friendly Thames outing — a stretch of sandy river ‘beach’, supervised paddling pool, café and grassy picnic space. It is around 40 minutes by train from London Waterloo and offers short-stay parking, but visitors are advised…

Around sixty firefighters extinguished roughly three hectares of burning grass on Wanstead Flats after more than 30 calls reporting multiple pockets of blaze; crews used a wildfire response vehicle and a drone and brought the fire under control by 7:58pm. The incident — the second large grass fire at the…

A surge of hot, humid air from continental Europe is set to push temperatures into the high 20s and low 30s — and possibly as high as 34°C in parts of central and southern England — from Tuesday 12 August. Amber heat‑health alerts cover large swathes of England as the…

Many people in their forties in the capital say they feel decades younger even as they shoulder senior managerial roles and large fiscal responsibilities. Census and employment data, plus workplace research, suggest longer hours and high living costs are driving a move away from alcohol‑centred socialising towards selective evenings, fitness…

Hayu will premiere The Real Housewives of London on 18 August 2025 as its first self‑commissioned original — a ten‑episode series featuring a six‑strong London cast and a reunion hosted by Katherine Ryan. Produced by Universal Television Alternative Studio UK, the commission is a strategic push to grow Hayu’s UK…

Web-native menswear label Bianca Saunders staged an immersive Shoreditch activation for her Spring/Summer 2025 collection, The Hotel, partnering with Puma’s H‑Street campaign. The Puma-backed pop-up combined tactile retail, music, food and community programming rooted in Jamaican culture to translate online inventory into lived experience. Bianca Saunders has turned a web‑first…

Tucked down a side‑street off Red Lion Square, Novelty Automation is a compact arcade of roughly 20 hand‑built, coin‑operated automata. Created by Tim Hunkin, the machines mix Victorian mechanics with contemporary satire — bring a token bucket (c. £28) and allow an hour or two. When a corner of Holborn…

A compact team used two Quantum7 desks for house and monitors and an SD7B in Zen Broadcast’s OB ‘Little Buddha’, making the truck the Optocore clock source to enable a pre‑show recording pass and three performances in two days for the charity gala. The Mountbatten Festival of Music returned to…

Neon jumpsuits and ABBA hits are back as Mamma Mia! reopens at the Winter Garden Theatre for a strictly limited six‑month Broadway engagement through 1 February 2026. The production largely transfers from the 25th‑anniversary North American tour — with Amy Weaver as Sophie, Christine Sherrill as Donna and 25 company…

A Labour peer has called for John Tweed’s Grade II‑listed statue of Robert Clive, sited outside the Foreign Office, to be taken down, arguing its reliefs sanitise colonial violence and could harm relations with India. Any removal would face legal and procedural barriers because the memorial is listed, reopening the…