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Alo Yoga's first store in Britain and Europe: a 4,321 sq ft, two-level shop at 33 King's Road in Chelsea.

Shein confidentially filed IPO papers with the UK's Financial Conduct Authority in early June 2024, sources told Reuters, seeking a London Stock Exchange listing reportedly worth around £50 billion. The filing still needed sign-off from China's securities regulator before Shein could proceed.

A 10,000 sq ft Alo flagship at 150 Regent Street with two floors of shop and Alo's first gym and wellness club in the UK.

Vuori's first international flagship, a two-floor store of just under 4,000 sq ft at 83-85 Regent Street, opened on 31 October 2024 in the former Fabletics space.

A fire at the North Hyde electrical substation in Hayes cut power to Heathrow on 21 March 2025, closing Europe's busiest airport for about 16 hours and disrupting around 200,000 passengers.

Vuori opened a 3,412 sq ft, two-floor store at 18-21 Duke of York Square on Chelsea's King's Road on 25 April 2025, with a studio and events space on the lower floor.

Rosewood opened its flagship London hotel inside the former US Embassy on Grosvenor Square, a 144-suite, all-suite property restored by Sir David Chipperfield that keeps the building's gilded Theodore Roszak eagle sculpture on the roofline.

Nike and Palace Skateboards opened Manor Place, a free hub in an 1895 bathhouse near Elephant and Castle whose skatepark lifts on steel columns to reveal an underground football cage.

Diageo opened the £73 million Guinness Open Gate Brewery London, a working microbrewery and visitor experience in Covent Garden's Old Brewer's Yard, to the public on 11 December 2025, returning brewing to a site first used for beer over 300 years ago.

At the 79th BAFTA Film Awards on 22 February 2026 at the Royal Festival Hall, One Battle After Another won six awards including Best Film, Robert Aramayo took Best Actor for I Swear and Hamnet won Outstanding British Film.

Six Senses London opened on 1 March 2026 in the restored Whiteley's department store on Queensway, Bayswater, the brand's first hotel in the UK. It has 109 bedrooms and suites, 14 Six Senses branded residences and the first Six Senses Place private members' concept.

Sabastian Sawe won the 2026 London Marathon in a world-record 1:59:30, the first sub-two-hour marathon in race conditions, while Tigst Assefa lowered the women-only record to 2:15:41.

The Grade II-listed west London exhibition halls reopened as a mixed-use district with rooftop restaurants, offices, two hotels and the 3,800-capacity British Airways ARC music venue, which launched the following night. The GBP 1.3 billion transformation, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC, opens the 14-acre site to the public for the first time in 140 years; the 1,575-seat British Airways Theatre follows in 2027.

Bruno Mars plays the first of six Wembley Stadium nights to a 75,000-strong crowd, returning to UK stages after eight years with an England scarf and a Paddington Bear.

Britain's Josh Kerr ran 3:42.66 at the London Diamond League on 18 July 2026, the first mile under 3:43 and 0.47 seconds inside Hicham El Guerrouj's 1999 world record of 3:43.13.

Bentley revealed the Torcal in London, its first fully electric car and fourth model line: an SUV with two motors, a 113 kWh battery, up to 888 PS and up to 375 miles of WLTP range, though Bentley did not announce a price or delivery date.

Salesforce hosts a free day of enterprise AI sessions, hands-on demonstrations and customer discussions at ExCeL London on 15 October.

Cocoa Runners hosts the London Craft Chocolate Fair at Fidelio Cafe in Farringdon on 17-18 October 2026, with an indoor market of craft chocolate makers and ticketed tastings.

A sold-out women's night 10K from Silverworks Island in east London along the Royal Victoria Dock, including a stretch of London City Airport's runway.

Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng bring their steak-and-chicken grill to Carnaby.

Barclays reported £7.4 billion Q3 income and £2.3 billion profit before tax on October 22, with 11.7% RoTE and a £500 million buyback. Equities strength offset a 19% FICC revenue decline.

A new East London location for the British restaurant, with seasonal cooking and Sunday roasts.

World Travel Market London runs 3-5 November 2026 at ExCeL London, with new tourism boards, new airline exhibitors and a new WTM Travel Tech show.

Decanter's two-day Fine Wine Encounter at The Landmark London on 6-7 November 2026 offers a Grand Tasting of over 1,000 wines plus masterclasses.

VMware Explore on Tour 2026 comes to the ICC at Olympia in West Kensington, London, on 18-19 November, one of three stops with extra partner-training days.

London's city museum reopens on 28 November 2026 under a new name and in a new home: the derelict General Market beside Smithfield's meat halls, a Victorian market building left empty for decades and now rebuilt around its own ironwork and glazed dome. The move ends the institution's run at London Wall, where it had been hemmed in by a roundabout and reached by a walkway, and puts it at street level in a market that has traded on the site since the twelfth century.

The British Fashion Council's Fashion Awards 2026 will take place Monday, November 30, 2026 at London's Royal Albert Hall, the ceremony's annual celebration of designers and fundraiser for the BFC Foundation, which backs emerging talent.

Hilton's Waldorf Astoria London - Admiralty Arch, the 114-room hotel and residences in the Grade I-listed landmark opposite Buckingham Palace, says it will open in autumn 2026, with reservations from 1 March 2027. Clare Smyth and Daniel Boulud will run its restaurants.

The 44-acre former exhibition site won consent from Hammersmith & Fulham on 26 November 2025 and Kensington & Chelsea on 16 December 2025, a decade after the exhibition halls came down. Phase one of the GBP 10bn masterplan covers the first 1,300 homes, offices, a cultural venue and a 4.5-acre park, with the whole site due to be finished by 2043.

BAFTA publishes the longlists for the 80th EE BAFTA Film Awards on Thursday 7 January 2027, with Round Two voting for the nominations opening the same day and closing on 14 January.

BAFTA announces the nominations for the 80th EE BAFTA Film Awards on Tuesday 19 January 2027, two days before the Oscar nominations, with the ceremony to follow on 21 February in London.

The UK Tea Academy's international tea awards hold their 2026 awards celebration and an open winners' tasting at Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly on 22 and 23 January 2027.

Auberge Collection's first London hotel, Cambridge House at 94 Piccadilly, is preparing for a February 2027 opening with 102 rooms, 24 of them suites, in the Grade I-listed former In & Out club. Jean-Louis Deniot designed the hotel and Major Food Group runs the restaurant.

Europe's biggest Pokémon tournament of the season runs 19-21 February 2027 at ExCeL London, with TCG, video game and Pokémon GO competitions.

BAFTA's 80th Film Awards ceremony is set for Sunday 21 February 2027 in London, after Round Three winner voting from 26 January to 16 February; venue, host and broadcaster have not been announced.

The TCS London Marathon runs over two days, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 April 2027, from Blackheath to The Mall, with time-qualifier entries opening in October 2026.

Airbus told Qantas its first ultra-long-range A350-1000ULR for Project Sunrise will arrive in April 2027, four months later than planned, pushing back nonstop Sydney-London flights.

Harry Styles plays the last of three nights at London's Wembley Stadium, the announced final show of the Together, Together tour that began in Amsterdam in May 2026, with Tears for Fears opening.

DSEI, the UK's flagship defence and security exhibition, returns to ExCeL London from 7 to 10 September 2027, with land, air, naval and space zones and visiting warships in the venue's dockside setting.

The only London scheme in wave one of the New Hospital Programme puts a net-zero replacement hospital on the western edge of the Uxbridge site, with 327 homes alongside it, inside a capital envelope of GBP 1-1.5bn. Laing O'Rourke signed the delivery contract on 30 July 2026; the trust's milestones run construction to 2032 with the hospital available to patients in early 2033.

Time Out brings its market home to the city where the magazine started in 1968: 26,400 square feet over three floors at 10 Piccadilly, on a long-term partnership with The Crown Estate, as the flagship of the whole portfolio.

The privately financed project shifts Gatwick's standby northern runway 12 metres north so it can take departures alongside the main runway, adding room for around 100,000 more flights a year. The Court of Appeal dismissed the last legal challenge on 4 August 2026, and the work also covers terminal extensions, new airport buildings and a flyover at the South Terminal roundabout.