Last year wasn’t a brilliant one for  the British tourist industry. Yet the  future may be considerably brighter as a result. Simon Calder reports

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Rail and Tube travellers suffered rush-hour delays today on another scorchingly hot morning.

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Staff say tiny feline, named Victoria after the station where she was found, is in purr-fect health, despite being only four weeks old

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The first cyclist to be killed riding a 'Boris Bike' was a 20-year-old French student, it was reported today.

A Czech woman has had a remarkable escape after falling under an oncoming train and crawling out from between carriages unscathed.

According to a new survey, people from the North aren't very keen on Londoners

The Japanese establishment closed ranks around the disgraced former bosses of the Olympus cameras giant today, refusing to jail them for one of the biggest corporate scandals in the country’s history.

TfL Commissioner Sir Peter Hendy received performance award of £168,640 for 2011/12

I was already seated at a table in Woolwich McDonald’s when the stranger who had travelled to meet me, believing that in 10 minutes’ time we’d be going to a flat around the corner to have sex, walked through the door. As far as he knew, we were meeting in a public place so he could prove he “wasn’t an axe-murderer”, before going on to the SponsorAScholar “physical assessment”.

Good news for commuters - doctors have suggested that, in spite of popular belief, people who use public transport are no more likely to catch flu than those who drive or cycle.

Lesser Known Architecture aims to celebrate the capital's ignored, unknown or derided buildings that you walk past a thousand times without noticing.