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April 'shower' on the way...

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Ex-Army chief backs plan for Ark Royal on Thames

06.12.10
The former head of the Army backs plans to turn the Ark Royal into a museum and visitor attraction... more

Ark Royal sails into Portsmouth before it is taken out of service

03.12.10
The Navy’s flagship HMS Ark Royal returns home for the final time before it is axed as part of the Government’s defence cuts... more

Ark Royal could be turned into a museum moored in Docklands

01.12.10
The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal could be brought to London and transformed into a museum and visitor attraction... more

The new HMS Belfast, from Russia with love

19.10.10
HMS Belfast was unveiled restored to her former glory by Russian benefactors as a tribute to the ship’s role on the Arctic convoys supplying the Soviet Union in the Second World War... more

Russians repair HMS Belfast’s masts to repay a wartime debt

10.09.10
Russian workforce arrives in London to return HMS Belfast to her former glory and repay a debt from the Second World War... more

My London: Martin Freeman

20.08.10
Sherlock actor and clothes addict Martin Freeman loves John Smedley, three-piece suits and the old-fashioned gentility of Claridge's... more

Views of Stephen Wiltshire's London

15.07.10
Nick Curtis sees the artist with autism, Stephen Wiltshire, create images from three private vantage points, exclusively for the Standard.... more

Russia honours our Arctic convoy veterans

10.05.10
Yesterday veterans of HMS Belfast and other British ships were honoured as Russia acknowledged its debt to the Allied convoys that kept it fighting on the Eastern Front... more

Russian cash to keep HMS Belfast shipshape

22.02.10
Russian firms are coming to the aid of HMS Belfast, the former Royal Navy cruiser docked near Tower Bridge... more

Sienna gets a soaking promoting her movie G.I.Joe on thames

22.07.09
A colleague helps Sienna Miller adjust her wet shirt before a photo shoot on the Thames.... more

Sound check: Busking with Suggs

19.06.09
Madness go cap in hand tomorrow to kick off a week of star buskers raising money for charity.... more

A night at a London museum ... part V

13.05.09
For one weekend only, Londoners are being invited to spend a night at the museum... more

The scrabble to claw back credibility

13.05.09
Westminster resonates to the sound of doors slamming on empty stables as the party leaders struggle to outdo each other in their firmness in cracking down on MPs' abuse of taxpayers through the allowances and expenses system... more

Try all that's in this fun city - for just a tenner

06.05.09
An American travel website is warning travellers off our fair city on the grounds that it's "dirty" and the cuisine isn't all it might be... more

Mr King rains on the PM's parade

25.03.09
THE PRIME MINISTER has let it be known that he "does not recognise" reports of a split between him and the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, about the shape of the Government's rescue of the economy... more

Going under in Canary Wharf

26.09.08
Just yards from the European headquarters of bankrupted Lehman Brothers, a capsizing yacht forms part of an art installation that will be seen on the Thames and around the docks of London... more

Now the Olympic baton is passed on to London

22.08.08
The Olympic handover flag will be raised in more than 400 venues across Britain to celebrate the moment London becomes the next host city... more

Compensation deal saves historic ship from the scrapyard

19.05.08
A £1.9 million compensation package from Crossrail has thrown a lifeline to the world's oldest complete steamship... more


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