LondonLife

LondonLife – Volodymyr Zelenskiy visits Number 10…

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PICTURE: Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing Street (licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Prime Minister Keir Starmer with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a meeting in 10 Downing Street on Sunday amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

LondonLife Special – The Chelsea Flower Show…

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A gallery of some of the highlights of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show which runs until tomorrow at the Royal Hospital Chelsea. To see all the medal winners, head to www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-chelsea-flower-show/awards-2026

‘She Grows Veg’. The Great Pavilion. PICTURE: RHS Chelsea Fower Show 2026.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England’s show garden ‘On the Edge’ – designed by Sarah Eberle. PICTURE: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.
Tokonoma Garden – Sanumaya no Niwa – designed by Kazuyuki Ishihara and Paul Noritaka Tange. Show Garden. PICTURE: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.
Lovehoney presents: Aphrodite’s Hothouse. Designed by James Whiting of Plants by There. Houseplant Studio. PICTURE: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.
Chlorophyll: The Colour of Life. Created by Acacia Creative Studio. Creative Space. PICTURE: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.
Saatchi Gallery Garden. Designed by Naomi Ferrett-Cohen. Showground installation. PICTURE: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.

LondonLife – Waterloo view…

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PICTURE: Robbie Cheadle/Unsplash

LondonLife – Inside the capsule…

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The London Eye. PICTURE: Jack White/Unsplash

LondonLife – Queen’s head, Sloane Square…

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PICTURE: Euronewsweek Media/Unsplash

Promotion for the upcoming Chelsea In Bloom to be held from 18th to 24th May.

LondonLife – Passing parade…

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Outside Buckingham Palace. PICTURE: Shawn/Unsplash

LondonLife – Vauxhall view…

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Vauxhall from the River Thames with Westminster Bridge in the foreground. PICTURE: Daniel Sturley/Unsplash

LondonLife – All in white…

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PICTURE: Gabriel Tudor

LondonLife – Greenwich overwatch…

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PICTURE: carmen dominguez/Unsplash

LondonLife – Busy Thames shore…

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North bank of the Thames in central London. PICTURE: Marcel Zeidler/Unsplash

LondonLife – Horseguards…

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PICTURE: Eduard Pretsi/Unsplash

LondonLife – Glass towers…

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PICTURE: João Rodrigues/Unsplash

LondonLife – Geometry under the Shard…

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PICTURE: Adrien Olichon/Unsplash

LondonLife – Rayners Lane…

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PICTURE: Brett Jordan/Unsplash

LondonLife – Garden view…

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View of Jubilee Gardens on South Bank from the London Eye. PICTURE: Leticia Golubov/Unsplash

LondonLife – City of London stairway…

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PICTURE: Kevin Grieve/Unsplash

LondonLife – Folgate Street…

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Looking down Folgate Street, Spitalfields. PICTURE: Tanya Barrow/Unsplash

LondonLife – Souvenir shopping…

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PICTURE: Youssef Mubarak/Unsplash

LondonLife – Streets aglow for Christmas…

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Piccadilly. ALL PICTURES: Philippe BONTEMPS/Unsplash
Carnaby Street.
Carnaby Street.
Old Bond Street.
Covent Garden.

LondonLife – Claridges dressed for Christmas…

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PICTURE: Tanya Barrow/Unsplash

For more on the historic hotel, see our earlier post here…