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Luxurious Grade II listed house with private gated drive-in courtyard, underground parking, swimming pool and separate staff accommodation, for sale in the heart of Mayfair, W1J In the heart of exclusive Mayfair, this majestic and luxurious Grade II listed property provides unique lateral living. The BBC, the world's oldest national broadcaster, is a significant employer, while other broadcasters also have headquarters around the city.

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, the world's longest-running play, has been performed in the West End since 1952. Fearing an attempt by the Crown to diminish the Liberties of London, coupled with a lack of interest in administering these additional areas or concern by city guilds of having to share power, caused the Corporation's "The Great Refusal", a decision which largely continues to account for the unique governmental status of the City. Many national newspapers, including The Times, founded in 1785, are edited in London; the term Fleet Street (where most national newspapers operated) remains a metonym for the British national press. The 1948 Summer Olympics were held at the original Wembley Stadium, while London was still recovering from the war. Places within London's vast urban area are identified using area names, such as Mayfair, Southwark, Wembley, and Whitechapel.The first gay bar in London in the modern sense was The Cave of the Golden Calf, established as a night club in an underground location at 9 Heddon Street, just off Regent Street, in 1912 and became a haunt for the wealthy, aristocratic and bohemian.

Red means you should take action now to keep yourself and others safe from the impact of the weather. The opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 connected London directly to the continental rail network, allowing Eurostar services to begin. needs update] The Port of London is the second largest in the UK, handling 45million tonnes of cargo each year.

There are Chinese takeaways throughout London, as are Indian restaurants which provide Indian and Anglo-Indian cuisine.

With students in London and around 48,000 in University of London Worldwide, [329] the federal University of London is the largest contact teaching university in the UK. Since 1965, Greater London has been divided into 32 London boroughs in addition to the ancient City of London. Other mammals found in Greater London are hedgehog, brown rat, mice, rabbit, shrew, vole, and grey squirrel. The Port of London, once the largest in the world, is now only the second-largest in the United Kingdom, handling 45million tonnes of cargo each year as of 2009. London is a major centre for television production, with studios including Television Centre, ITV Studios, Sky Campus and Fountain Studios; the latter hosted the original talent shows, Pop Idol, The X Factor, and Britain's Got Talent, before each format was exported around the world.

London is one of the major classical and popular music capitals of the world and hosts major music corporations, such as Universal Music Group International and Warner Music Group, and countless bands, musicians and industry professionals. The London telephone area code (020) covers a larger area, similar in size to Greater London, although some outer districts are excluded and some just outside included.

Transport for London is now the statutory corporation responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London, and is run by a board and a commissioner appointed by the Mayor of London.London has many museums, galleries, libraries, and cultural venues, including the British Museum, National Gallery, Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, British Library, and numerous West End theatres. During the Georgian era, new districts such as Mayfair were formed in the west; new bridges over the Thames encouraged development in South London. The pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's late 14th-century Canterbury Tales set out for Canterbury from London. London was bombed by the Germans in the First World War, and during the Second World War, the Blitz and other bombings by the German Luftwaffe killed over 30,000 Londoners, destroying large tracts of housing and other buildings across the city.