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The closure bell tolls once more, this time for Turnips in Borough Market. The restaurant launched as a pop-up from chef Tomas Lidakevicius (formerly of Jason Atherton’s City Social) in 2020, and became permanent the following year. It was connected to the Turnips greengrocers, a family-run fruit and veg wholesaler which has been part of Borough Market for over 30 years.  The al fresco restaurant was open for lunch and in the evenings, when Turnips had finished trading for the day, and served veg-forward small and sharing plates, with recent menus including cévennes onion with waffle and parmesan, candy beetroot with cured hake and mussel velouté and rhubarb with white chocolate. The Turnips team wrote about the closure on Instagram, saying: ‘It is with a great sadness that we write to you today. The Borough Market trustees have revoked the licence for restaurant use and as a result we will be forced to close our restaurant on the 25th of April.’ They added: ‘The journey has been incredible for us, we want you all to know that it has been our greatest pleasure to be able to look after you. We have felt the love and support at every turn. Our hope is we went some way to showing you what heights the humble vegetable truly can reach.’ In 2022 Turnips released a book, Turnips' Edible Almanac: The Week-by-week Guide to Cooking with Seasonal Ingredients, which featured recipes by Tomas Lidakevicius. So if you still want the taste of Turnips, it might be time to pick yourself up a c

Just a few days after the ASLEF union announced several days of train strikes throughout the UK for next month, now more industrial action has been announced for London – and it’s scheduled to take place this week. The strike will come from customer service managers who are members of the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) and they’ll be walking out this Friday April 26. On top of that, those same employees will not work overtime until May 5.  The strike will last from 12:01am to 11:59pm on April 26,. However, it will also impact April 27, due to employees whose shifts start before 11.59pm the night before. Before you panic about getting about town this weekend, it’s worth noting that the TSSA strike is unlikely to cause major disruption across the entire London Underground network. Instead, individual stations are likely to shut at short notice. That’s what happened when TSSA members walked out as part of the same dispute on April 10.   TSSA customer service managers are striking over the terms and conditions of their jobs. Commenting on the strike, TSSA General Secretary Maryam Eslamdoust said: ‘It’s clear that our Customer Service Managers strike on 10 April made a real impact, many stations shut at short notice, and we had overwhelming support from the public. Because of London Underground’s refusal to get back round the negotiating table, we have been forced to take further strike action this week. ‘London Underground must now come clean with the public – thei

Does anyone even remember what life was like in London before the train strikes? Union members have been walking out since all the way back in the summer of 2022, making it pretty much two years since the UK was blissfully rail-strike-free. And industrial action isn’t going away anytime soon – more strikes have been announced for next month.  The next major round of strikes will come from ASLEF train drivers across the UK. Drivers at 16 train operators will walk out in a rolling programme lasting from May 7 to May 9 and not work overtime for a six-day period. These strikes follow several days of action by ASLEF and TSSA members in April.  On top of this, customer service managers part of the TSSA union on the London Underground will walk out this Friday on April 26, and take part in an overtime ban lasting until May 5. This is likely to result in last-minute station closures, though is unlikely to shut down the entire tube network.  In slightly brighter news,  industrial action on the tube scheduled for May has been called off. We’re also currently seeing respite from RMT workers striking on non-TfL services, as before Christmas the union’s members voted to pause strikes for now.  Here’s everything you need to know about planned industrial action on London’s train network.  RECOMMENDED:All you need to know about the train strikes across the UK. When are the next London train strikes? The next major strike will come from ASLEF drivers, who will walk out on May 7-9 and take par