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EPA Black Friday has become one of the biggest shopping days of the year Christmas shoppers have turned to the streets of central London to buy their presents this year, with high street footfall in the West End bucking the national trend. In the week before Black Friday, the fourth Friday of November, footfall was up 9% on 2024, according to data from the New West End Company (NWEC). Across…

When I first came to London from Yorkshire in the late 1980s, I found the tube replete with bizarre novelties. Among them was the way most trains required me to sit sideways to the direction of travel, as on a fairground waltzer. Directly opposite me was another person or an empty seat, and while I knew not to stare at people, I did stare at the seats – at their woollen coverings, called…