Where to eat in London right now: an expert-led edit of the restaurants worth booking this month, from intimate tasting menus to big, buzzy nights out.

FT’s annual list of London’s best new restaurant openings of the year — a hat trick of coming to the same conclusion. It has been a bumper year for restaurant launches, despite the increasingly challenging economic environment faced by hospitality.

London's sewers have spawned a new monster—and this one weighs as much as about 15 African elephants. Thames Water says it has discovered a 110-ton "fatberg" blocking pipes beneath east London's Whitechapel area,

The first ever timber tube station has opened in London.

Since 2015, Pamela Lawson Boyce has used her Christmas inflatables and lights to raise donations for the London Food Bank, collecting hundreds of pounds' worth of non-perishable items each year. The London Food Bank says it's individual initiatives like this that have the most significant impact.

"Wicked" star Cynthia Erivo will be honored at the London Critics' Circle Film Awards. She will receive the Derek Malcolm Award for Innovation.

The Islington boozer was the only new pub to feature in Time Out’s latest ranking of London’s best places to drink.

Christmas Day services will be held at a large number of churches and cathedrals in the London area, including St Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. St Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square also hosts a Christmas Day service.