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Watch the Space Station flypast on Xmas Eve

What a lovely way to start Christmas as we can -- weather permitting -- watch the International Space Station pass overhead on Christmas Eve.

A second light festival for London

Next January, London is to have two light festivals, running at the same time.

See a 3D video projection at The Guildhall

Something for your diaries, as next March, there will be another chance to see an impressive video display projected onto the medieval Guildhall building in the City of London.

Wellcome to Buddhists, Boning, and Bones

Drums made from human skulls, jewellery from human bones, dogs for supper, and graphic sex -- all are an unexpected display of Buddhism at the Wellcome Collection.

Bomb damage map on display

The newish, and smallish Heritage Gallery inside London's Guildhall has put out a display of WW1 and WW2 maps and photos.

Ticket Alert — Lord Adonis and Norman Foster debate

Potentially interesting talk and debate at the LSE later this month with three significant figures, Lord Adonis, Norman Foster, and Deyan Sudjic.

Red Arrows might fly over London on Saturday

With a serious dose of caveat emptor, there may be a fly past by the Red Arrows over central London on Saturday.

Free things to do in London this week

A look ahead at some picks of what's free to do in London this week.

Mind Bending Fogs Fill the Wellcome Collection

A room filled with dense fog, coloured fog, still fog, murmurs in the fog, faces fading into view through the fog. This is the Wellcome Collection's latest art display.

Churchill’s Scientists at the Science Museum

Not literally, as they are all dead now, and that would be rather macabre, but there is an exhibition about what the scientists did when alive.

Gin Tastings at the Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum has laid on a second Gin Tasting evening on 30 October.

London’s 2015 Bonfire Night Firework Displays

Time to start planning the annual celebration of the persecution of a Papist plot to kill our Protestant Monarch.

Torchlit tours of the Post Office Railway

Later this month, there will be an exceptionally rare chance to walk through the mothballed Post Office Railway tunnels.

London is to have a light festival

For just four nights, 20 illuminated works of art will be scattered around London for its first major festival of light.

Sheep to be taken across London Bridge

The Worshipful Company of Woolmen will be organising a Sheep Drive across London Bridge this year.

Rare ceremony to take place at the Tower of London

If you are in the area on Monday (14th Sept), then there will be a chance to see a fairly rare ceremony take place at the Tower of London.

TfL’s Wooden Underground Station

Later this month, there will be a tube station made from wood, and a restaurant named after Frank Pick, founder of TfL's design ethos.

See the Bloodhound “supersonic car” at Canary Wharf

Something for anyone excited by British engineering -- as the Bloodhound Supersonic Car will be going on public display in London later this month, for just two days.

Camberwell bus garage open to the public this weekend

On Saturday 5 September, Camberwell Bus Garage will open its doors to members of the public in the next of a series of bus garage open days.

Attend the Silent Ceremony

Each year, in a ceremony as rich in pomp as it is ancient in history, and in total silence, the new Lord Mayor is sworn into office.

Glowing Clouds of Balls to fill Covent Garden

Later this month, 100,000 giant white balloons will fill the interior of the 19th Century Market Building in Covent Garden.

Burning Man art comes to the British Library

A curious collection of paintings based on the concept of the Victorian "cabinet of curiosity" has been erected in the courtyard of the British Museum.

Book tours of the Government’s art collection warehouse

Although the art collection owned by the Monarch is often on display at the various Royal Palaces, and at the Queen’s Gallery, seeing the art owned by HM Government on our behalf is rather harder.

Walk over one of London’s highest bridges

One of London's highest and most dramatic bridges is not one you are likely to stumble upon, being sited in a quiet spot of docklands.