Several key roads, access routes and bridges will be closed to human and motor traffic for the duration of the Queen's diamond jubilee river paegent on June 3. Over one million people are expected to line along the Thames to watch the Queen and members of the royal family including the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge sail into view.

Scotland Yard's resolve to ape their Big Apple counterparts is beginning to yield some fruits. Sixteen suspected heroin and cocaine dealers have been arrested in the largest ever crackdown on crime and anti-social behaviour in the West End.

With the cost of a first class stamp rising from 46p to 60p and a second-class stamp from 36p to 50p from April 30, Westminster Council is reminding its residents of ‘five things they can do for free online’ to save on postage and none includes squeezing that important document into a bottle.

Are you reading this on a smartphone or another wireless device? If you live in Westminster, the answer is probably yes.

Mayfair residents have won a partial victory in their quest to have noise levels lowered during summer concerts at Hyde Park. Westminster councillors emerged from a crucial meeting and an eagerly anticipated verdict with big ramifications for concert promoters and some of the biggest performing artistes in the world. From 2013 the number of concerts  will be scaled down from 13 to nine and audiences cut down from 80,000 to 50,000.

As the Met Office predicts minus zero temperatures for London and other parts of the UK, one London council is fully prepared with the latest possible technology to ensure that cold weather does not halt business and tourism in the capital and ensure residents can get around safely.

Westminster City Council have announced it will be charging West End's night workers £2 per hour from 6.30pm to 7am and all night between these hours for £8 instead of an advertised £4.80 an hour tariff. In a partnership with Q-Park, the new reduced parking tariffs will take effect from 9th January 2012  where evening visitors and workers in the West End can park for only £2 per hour from 6.30pm to 7am and all night between these hours for  £8 in Q-Park car parks at Soho, Oxford Street and Trafalgar Sq. The council's seeming 'climb-down' over proposed parking charges has come after a sustained campaign by West End workers servicing the hospitality and casino trades.

The inner workings of central London are set to be revealed in the first documentary series ever to focus on a single council. The six part series by Popkorn TV to be shown on Channel 5 follows staff from Westminster Council as they go about their day to day jobs keeping the lid on sex shops and at times cleansing homes of blood-thirsty bugs.