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4 January 14:37:36	The 2012 London Boat Show takes place Jan 6-15 at ExCel (www.excel-london.co.uk) London. London Boat Show   London Boat Show
21 December 15:08:33	Rent During The Games is a specialist website for finding or listing property for rental accommodation during the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games - "This website only provides an platform for buyers and sellers to make contact."  Rent During The Games
1 December 15:31:00	Damian Aspinall is opening a new casino - Aspers Casino Stratford - in Westfield Stratford City, near the London Olympic Stadium. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
28 November 14:16:04	Founders Card (www.founderscard.com) is gaining traction in London - it "offers members discounts...and even runs its own networking events" for entrepreneurs and innovators, particularly of the dotcom variety. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
8 November 16:14:33	The Leonardo da Vinci blockbuster exhibition at National Gallery (www.nationalgallery.org.uk) is showing nine of the 15 surviving works by the artist until February 5. More + photos at MailOnline.   MailOnline
8 November 16:12:40	The area just north of Piccadilly Circus will be transformed by the AirW1 (www.airw1.com) mixed-use development on the site of the former Regent Palace Hotel. More at Offices.   Offices
28 October 10:30:32	The RAC London to Brighton Veteran Car Run takes place on Sunday 6 November 2011. Hyde Park is the departure point. Click on the LBVCR link for more.   LBVCR
8 September 16:22:30	LondonLovesBusiness is billing itself as "the new website for and about London's business scene."   LondonLovesBusiness
8 September 10:42:29	London 2012 Paralympic Games - applications for tickets can be made between 9 September 2011 and 26 September 2011. Click on the 'Tickets' link for more info and to see the full competition schedule.   Tickets
18 August 15:10:42	The Notting Hill Carnival (www.thenottinghillcarnival.com) will go ahead on August 28/29 but will end earlier than usual to "help crowds disperse before dark, when police believe trouble is most likely to occur." More in The Guardian.   The Guardian
12 July 16:59:38	The Proms (www.bbc.co.uk/proms) - "the world's greatest classical music festival" - starts Friday July 15. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
10 July 16:11:17	"Spend your summer holiday in Space" - the Space Exhibition at the Science Museum begins July 23.   Science Museum
8 July 15:59:14	Tree for Cities - "breathing life into your neighbourhood" - is holding a Tree-Athlon in London's Battersea Park on 17 September.   Tree for Cities
24 June 11:00:35	The Young Journalists' Academy, "a programme for London state school pupils who have the passion and the guts, but not ‘the right contacts’, to break into journalism", is running a Summer School in Canary Wharf July 30 - August 6.   Young Journalists' Academy
17 June 15:03:45	The Boiler House (www.industri.uk.com/boilerhouse) at Battersea Power Station (www.battersea-powerstation.com), a 30x40-metre marquee with transparent roof and outside decking area, is "now the capital's hottest party venue." More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
13 June 16:43:42	Andy Murray (www.andymurray.com) "dug deep to secure a second AEGON Championship title" at the Queen's Club in London. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
10 June 10:43:11	'Life in Photographs' - a selling exhibition at Phillips de Pury (http://phillipsdepury.com/exhibitions.aspx) of 26 photographs by Linda McCartney runs until June 16 at Howick Place, London SW1. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
5 June 16:36:22	Motorexpo (www.motorexpo.com), "the world’s biggest free to visit motoring event", is at London's Canary wharf June 6-12. The Land Rover Evoque, Lexus LFA and new Bentley Continental GT are among the star cars on display. More at AutoTrader.   AutoTrader
5 June 16:04:49	Tennis - the AEGON Championships at The Queen's Club (www.queensclub.co.uk) in west London runs June 6-12.   AEGON Championships
24 May 11:24:25	The 2011 Derby takes place at Epsom Racecourse at 4pm on June 4. More at the Epsom Downs Racecourse website.   Epsom Derby
23 May 11:41:17	The 2011 Chelsea Flower Show runs May 24-28. "Celebrity gardener Diarmuid Gavin hopes to unveil his spectacular Irish Sky Garden tomorrow - as long as the wind doesn't get too strong" - more at MailOnline.   MailOnline
20 May 11:24:48	The 2011 Picnic Concerts at Kenwood House in Hampstead run rom June 24 until July 31. Tom Jones, Jools Holland, Liza Minnelli, George Benson and the Gipsy Kings are performing.   Picnic Concerts
19 May 12:29:01	"Carrying the Olympic Flame - We are looking for 8,000 truly inspirational people from the UK to carry the Olympic Flame. We need you to help us find them, by nominating them to be a London 2012 Olympic Torchbearer" - more at the London 2012 website.   London 2012
13 May 11:37:56	Former motorcycle rider Eddie Kidd (www.eddiekidd.com), severely disabled after a crash in 1996, has reached the 11-mile mark of the London Marathon. He is covering up to a mile a day to raise money for Children with Leukaemia. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
11 May 14:44:38	The London organising committee for the Paralympic Games has announced pricing details - "95 per cent of tickets costing £50 or less, 75 per cent of tickets costing £20 or under, £10 for cheapest adult ticket." More at The Telegraph.   The Telegraph
10 May 10:51:47	Wilton's (www.wiltons.org.uk) in east London, the world's oldest surviving Grand Music Hall, is raising funds to meet the cost of a repair project. The target is £4,000,000. More at Artswrap.   Artswrap
7 May 11:36:03	"The London organising committee for the Olympic Games has confirmed it will be ticketing four test events in Summer 2011..." More at The Telegraph and London Prepares (www.londonpreparesseries.com).   The Telegraph
3 May 16:13:56	Vodafone is to brand hundreds of black London taxis with a Union Jack, equip them with charging points for mobile phones and "will also allow Vodafone customers to pay for their taxi ride by sending a text message to a special number." More at MNP.  My Next Phone
19 April 11:20:13	London Olympic Games tickets - "Submit your application by 11.59pm on 26 April 2011."   London Olympic Games tickets
16 April 10:37:04	The London Marathon (www.virginlondonmarathon.com) takes place for the 30th time on Sunday April 17. Updates can be found on Twitter.   Twitter - London Marathon
14 April 15:58:18	Buster Martin, who completed the London Marathon in 2008, has died at the unconfirmed age of 104. More at the Pimlico Plumbers website.   Pimlico Plumbers
7 April 16:10:22	Footballer Rio Ferdinand has launched a video appeal for info on the murder of Londoner Rio McFarlane on the Met Police YouTube (www.youtube.com/metpoliceservice) the day after a man connected with the killing was himself shot. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
6 April 15:36:32	The Virgin London Marathon (www.virginlondonmarathon.com) takes place on April 17 - "Nine Japanese women have been added to the elite field for next month's Virgin London Marathon following the earthquake and tsunami..." More at The Telegraph.   The Telegraph
21 March 16:19:14	"Binge thinking" - London has gone cerebral with the under 35s opting for nights out which involve the use of "brains rather than beer goggles." More in The Standard.   Evening Standard
16 March 16:27:18	The London Fire Brigade is changing its charging policy for attending non-emergency calls to release a person shut in a lift. "From 1 April 2011 the LFB will charge" building owners "on the third lift release at the same building within a year..."  London Fire Brigade
11 March 16:31:33	The Audi quattro rooms are two London venues where "you'll see the same intelligent design and sophisticated luxury as you'll find inside our cars" which can "help you take your conference, meeting or event to a remarkable place."   Audi quattro rooms
11 March 11:48:30	London Olympics 2012 - hospitality packages are now on sale at Prestige Ticketing which is the official hospitality programme for the London Olympic and Paralympic Games.   Prestige Ticketing
15 February 09:55:45	The competition schedule for the London 2012 Olympic Games has been announced. Click on the link for event dates and ticket prices.   Olympic schedule
14 February 16:11:06	Karren Brady (www.karrenbrady.co.uk), vice chairman of West Ham United (www.whufc.com), has written "My open letter to London" regarding the football club's status as "preferred bidders" for the Olympic Stadium. More in The Standard.   Evening Standard