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  • Salome goes Headlong into Hampstead March 10, 2010
    Con O’Neill, Zawe Ashton and Jaye Griffiths are to star in Headlong Theatre’s new production of Oscar Wilde’s Salome at Hampstead theatre from 22 June to 17 July (press night 24 June). […]
  • Love Never Dies March 10, 2010
    After years of rumours and rewrites, and months of anticipation, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s new tale about the Phantom has finally opened in the West End. […]
  • Stage return for Campbell Moore March 9, 2010
    Stephen Campbell Moore and Jemima Rooper are to join David Suchet and Zoe Wanamaker in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, which plays at the Apollo theatre from 19 May. […]
  • Random March 9, 2010
    Theatres don’t usually look like furniture shops. But arriving at the venue for the Royal Court’s new venture, that is exactly what it looks like. In fact, the venue is a disused lot at the Elephant & Castle shopping centre, and the venture is Theatre Local. […]
  • Backstage: Alison Chitty March 8, 2010
    Designer Alison Chitty was resident designer at the National Theatre for eight years and has more than four decades of experience designing operas and plays all over the world. As an exhibition of her work runs at the National, she talks to Official London Theatre about her profession. […]

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  • Bestival: Time Machine March 9, 2010
    All the best bits of the Isle of Wight festival without a soggy tent in sight. Bestival: Time Machine in London. 20 Mar […]
  • Together March 5, 2010
    A new season of alternative electronic club nights at The Coronet Theatre, Elephant and Castle. 12 Mar-25 Jun Book online: http://www.seetickets.com/visitlondon/event.asp?ventown=london&artist=TOGETHER&WT.mc_id=rss_002 […]
  • Videopia March 3, 2010
    Club night remaking classic Ridley Scott movie Alien, followed by live music and DJs. 16 Mar […]
  • Get Loaded in the Dark February 26, 2010
    If you like the annual summer festival, you'll love Get Loaded's after dark Easter party at The Coronet. 1 Apr […]
  • White Mischief Third Birthday Extravaganza February 17, 2010
    White Mischief celebrates its third birthday with a steampunk-themed night of burlesque, music and more. 27 Mar […]

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Taxi drivers have ‘brain sat-nav’

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Scientists have uncovered evidence for an inbuilt “sat-nav” system in the brains of London taxi drivers.
They used magnetic scanners to explore the brain activity of taxi drivers as they navigated their way through a virtual simulation of London’s streets.
Different brain regions [...]

Black Cabs Go Green for the Olympics

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Intelligent Energy, a leading clean power systems company, has developed a hydrogen fuel cell that they say will be installed into a fleet of zero emission London taxis by 2012–a programme part funded by the UK Government’s Technology Strategy Board.
The fuel cell powered [...]

Licensed London taxi driver saves woman in distress

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Good morning
I am wondering if you can help me,
Late yesterday evening, around 11.30 pm, I was hopelessly lost in my old Audi car somewhere in the City(!) needing to collect my husband from Coleman Street, EC2.
After driving around aimlessly for over an hour I [...]

Transport for London (TFL) recommends London Black Taxis

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We are recommended by Transport for London (TFL).
There are approximately 25,000 licenced taxi drivers in the Greater London area. Transport for London license the Capital’s drivers so the public gets a safe and reliable service.
TFL has recommended only a few taxis services on their “Getting Around” [...]

A first for our “First Class” Mercedes Vito Taxi Service

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London Black Taxis is pleased and very proud to announce that interest in our “First Class” Mercedes Vito taxi service has exceeded our wildest dreams.
We knew that there was a serious demand for a limosine style licensed London taxi service but we have been stunned by [...]

London Black Taxis.net – We Move With the Times

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Some have been saying that the London Black Taxi trade needs to move with the times. Traditionally, Black Taxis pick up customers who hail them on the street, while the competition (we don’t dare mention the dreaded MC word) uses hi-tech innovations like an internet [...]

London Black Cab Sessions

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Have you heard of The Black Cab Sessions?
We have been chosen to be a Black Cab Sessions cab!
The Black Cab Sessions are a series of one-song performances by musicians and poets recorded in the back of a Black Cab and filmed for an Internet audience. The [...]

Greatest Taxi Cabs in the World

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The most popular and possibly the greatest cabs in the world are London’s black cabs. These London taxis have gained the status of being the best service provider of Airport Transfers around the earth.
Here are 5 reasons why these London taxi cabs are among the best [...]

Mind reading comes a step closer

In the science fiction film Minority Report, it allowed police to arrest criminals before they broke the law.
Now, mind reading has come a step closer to reality with scientists finding a way of mapping people’s brains.
British experts can track a person’s movements around a computer-simulated room simply by watching the way their [...]

Heathrow Airport

At Heathrow the taxi ranks are outside the arrivals hall of all four terminals. It will come as a relief to many travellers that these are managed with military control. Only London’s regulated black cabs are allowed anywhere near you, you will not be pestered by touts and a controller will make [...]