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The Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
The UK train station with a brand new rooftop bar this summer
A NEW rooftop bar has opened up on top of a historic UK train station. Located eight floors above Holborn station in London, La-Yam is a bar with panoramic views of the city, serving up expertly-crafted cocktails. 4 4 4 The bar features a "coastal-inspired" design with a Greek-style menu that include a Sunday roast, slow-cooked ribs and fresh fish dishes. The Beach Roast is on every Sunday from 11am to 3pm and a bottomless BBQ is also available from 11:20am to 1:30pm for £42 per person. Visitors can also get a mezze platter with six small dishes for £25, with options including hummus, roasted cauliflower, pickles and olives, baba ganoush, tzatziki and lahanosalata (coleslaw). All the dishes have been created by chef Eran Shachaf and have Ottolenghi-inspired presentation. Drinks include a range of classic cocktails and wines, as well as soft drinks. Also each week, La-Yam also hosts 'Fridays Above' from 6pm to 11pm featuring golden hour views and music by local artists. At other times there will also be DJ sets and rooftop yoga sessions. La-Yam is also dog friendly and available for private hire. The rooftop bar is open Monday to Friday from 11am to 11pm and from 11am to 3:30pm on Sundays. A new cultural destination with a Vegas-like dome is also coming to the Holborn area in London. The 5 best rooftop bars in london The Holborn Dome will be home to office spaces, a cultural space and a 300-person auditorium in central London. The venue will be located next to Chancery Lane tube station and will also feature a number of retail shops on the ground floor. One of the main parts of the project includes an auditorium with a double-height domed ceiling. The auditorium will be used for exhibitions and provide an immersive experience. Plus, the world's deepest bar is set to open in London, as part of a huge new £120million attraction.
The Sun
25-06-2025
- Business
- The Sun
New London cultural destination to open in the city with Vegas-like dome attraction
A NEW cultural destination is coming to London with a giant Vegas-like dome. The Holborn Dome will be home to office spaces, a cultural space and a 300-person auditorium in central London. 4 Located next to Chancery Lane tube station, the new venue will replace the surrounding offices and shops and bring them into one larger building. The centre and a number of retail shops will be located on the ground floor. And as part of the project, there will be a main auditorium with a double-height domed ceiling. Whilst The Holborn Dome aims to commemorate the earlier Knights Templar Church, which was demolished at the site a long time ago - plans reveal a similar dome-like structure to that of the Vegas Sphere. The round cultural space will be similar to the round churches that the Templars used to build. And the design of the dome is inspired by the former Knights Templar Church - which once stood in nearly the same spot as where the new dome will sit. The auditorium will be used for exhibitions and provide an immersive experience. When the site eventually opens, there will also be parts of the walls from the original church revealed and put on display where possible. There will be a remodelled pocket park at the rear of the building too, and upgraded public routes around the entire site. Facilities such as the water fountain and toilets will also be upgraded. One of the world's deepest bars to open in London Once completed, there will also be a number of exhibition spaces across the 10-storey-tall destination. According to MyLondon, deputy Tom Sleigh, chair of the planning and transportation committee, said: "This is exactly the kind of scheme we want to see more of in the Square Mile - best-in-class office space that keeps London globally competitive, while also delivering public spaces that everyone can enjoy. "Supporting the primary business function of the City through meeting this huge level of demand for office space is critical. "But I'm particularly pleased by the retention of sections of the Knights Templar, a brilliant way to connect the new venue with the history of the site." 4 Of course, The Holborn Dome will not be anywhere near the same size as the Vegas Sphere. The US attraction towers 112metres into the sky and stretches 157metres wide. And whilst the both the interior and exterior of The Holborn Dome won't be a colossal screen, inside it will offer an immersive visitor experience. The world's deepest bar is also set to open in London as part of huge new £120million attraction. Plus, a first-of-its-kind Titanic attraction is coming to England this summer, and is expected to make guests feel like they're on the ship. 4
Daily Mail
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Inside the secret tunnels under London where 'Ian Fleming dreamed up James Bond in WWII'
In central London, just off the bustle of High Holborn, there is a nondescript blue door. Commuters who walk past it on their way to Chancery Lane station will note the bright red and yellow signs adorned to it. The warning that 'trespassers will be prosecuted' is perhaps the giveaway that this is not your typical storeroom or building entrance. Instead, as MailOnline's exclusive pictures and video reveal, it is the gateway to a network of tunnels with a fascinating history. James Bond author Ian Fleming is believed to have worked in the sprawling complex in his role in naval intelligence during the Second World War. This labyrinth is thought to have inspired Fleming in his creation of the lair of gadget chief Q for his novels. After the war, the network - which lies around 100feet below the ground - was expanded to house a telephone exchange that routed calls between the Kremlin and the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. The complex was later sold to British Telecom (BT) and had a licensed bar installed for workers to relax in. Around 30 years after the site was mothballed, MailOnline was given a tour by current owners The London Tunnels Company, who are in the process of raising around £150million to re-develop the site as a tourist attraction. The development will include the re-opening of the bar, as well as a memorial to the victims of the Blitz and various displays paying homage to Fleming and the world's most famous fictional spy. James Loxton, director of investor relations at the London Tunnels, told MailOnline: 'We are going to create an attraction that is three things in one. 'Firstly, it is a huge immersive experience. Secondly, it will be a selection of permanent and temporary exhibition spaces. 'And thirdly, it will have the world's deepest bar under a capital city.' Planning permission for the project has been granted by Camden Council. The complex - officially known as the Kingsway Exchange Tunnels - was built between 1940 and 1942 and initially intended to be a deep level shelter for Londoners seeking refuge from Nazi bombs. But by the time the network was completed, the threat from bombing raids had largely subsided as Hitler gave up his ambition of forcing Britain to surrender. The initial footprint was two 1,250ft-long tunnels that were just over 18feet in diameter. Had they been used as a shelter, the Kingsway tunnels could have housed around 8,000 people. Instead, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) - created on the orders of Winston Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze' - moved personnel in. Fleming - who closely collaborated with the SOE and other clandestine units - was among the staff who worked down there, according to Mr Loxton. He said: 'He was working in these tunnels from 1944 to 1945 and this is where he came up with the idea of James Bond. 'So you know you see Q in all the Bond movies? He's always working in an underground lair? Well, this is where he got the inspiration.' Fleming's first Bond novel, Casino Royale, was published in 1953. The author is known to drawn significantly on his wartime experiences when writing his books, which were first adapted for the big screen in 1962 film Dr No. After the war, the Kingsway tunnels were used until 1949 by the Public Records Office to store documents on around 15 miles worth of shelving. The complex was then handed over to what was then the state-owned General Post Office, which turned it into a telecommunications hub. The expansion was carried out from 1952 and completed in 1954. Four additional tunnels were built in a north-south direction. Much bigger than the originals, they are around 280 feet long and 24 feet wide. The update means there is space makes to accommodate what is hoped will be nearly 50,000 visitors a week in the complex's new guise as a tourist attraction. As well as the bar area, which is still fitted with tables and chairs from when it was last operational, there is an infirmary and a well that could have provided fresh water had it been needed in the event of a nuclear attack. And occupants were protected by thick metal blast doors, including one that was - according to the stamp on it - repurposed from the Royal Mint. The first transatlantic telephone cable, known as TAT-1, ran between Oban in Argyll and Bute and Clarenville in Newfoundland. The sale to BT went through in 1981. As well as the bar, a canteen, kitchen and games room were installed for workers. The site had largely been mothballed by the early 1990s but was used as part of the Government's top secret Pindar bunker facility until the middle of the decade. In the years since they have been out of use, the tunnels have been broken into by urban explorers, a fact evidenced by graffiti that has been sprayed on walls. BT put the tunnels up for sale in 2007 and they were finally bought by the hedge fund-backed London Tunnels Company for around £10million in 2023. The re-development plans were approved by Camden Council last year.
Times
20-05-2025
- Business
- Times
Indian trade deal ignores legal services
Five years after the UK waved goodbye to the EU amid enthusiastic forecasts of an independent trading future, British ministers are finally cutting deals. One of the biggest plums being touted by now Labour ministers unavoidably triggers memories of hundreds of years of colonial history: a UK-India pact that is the biggest trade deal since Brexit. Although details of the agreement struck last week remain scant, it is anticipated that when it comes into effect next year, the deal will lower tariffs on goods that Britain exports to India, such as whisky, cars and aerospace products. British consumers will in turn benefit from cheaper goods from India, including foodstuffs, textiles and jewellery. But while champagne corks popped across Whitehall, in Chancery Lane there was disappointment
Times
08-05-2025
- General
- Times
Marlowe's killing solved
From The Times, May 8, 1925 Two months ago, in view of the revived project to complete the unfinished memorial at Canterbury to Christopher Marlowe, we published an article by Dr FS Boas, which contained the announcement that an unknown document giving authoritative details of Marlowe's death would shortly be published. The announcement must have tantalized many who knew how unsatisfactory were the current accounts of the poet's end. If so, now that the secret is out, expectations will not be disappointed. The truth, the world now learns, has been lying all this time in Chancery-lane, at the Record Office, and it has fallen to a Harvard scholar, Dr J Leslie Hotson, to reveal it, in a work just published by him simultaneously in America
