Be it in the office, on the go, or at home, deathly silence can make the day pass by that much slower. While some quiet time in the capital is usually hard to come by, when some does come along there are a few of us who simply need to have some noise. Radio has been around for ages and is considered a dinosaur in our iPod age, but it still gives great music and great news with just a flick of a switch.

La Perla, famous for their luxurious and high quality lingerie and nightwear, are having a short two day clearance sale in London where items from their 2009 and 2010 collections will be available at up to 80% discount.

Forget 10 Downing Street – this summer, all eyes will be on the new occupant of another famous London address. The Sting, a clothing department store already well established across Europe, will be opening its flagship London store at 1 Piccadilly Circus.

Some defile and vandalise it. Some find themselves late to work or stranded at the weekends because of it. And time seems to exist on a different scale for it. We love to moan and groan about our London Underground – but you’d be mistaken for thinking that its only purpose is to get us from point A to B. It seems that our beloved Tube system has become quite the bastion of British culture, as I was to realise.

Where can one have a look at a real gunshot wound, the first stethoscope used in Britain and a baby with a third eye? The answer is the Gordon Museum – a museum based at King’s College London dedicated to pathology.