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Win tickets to book launch
THE latest Poems on the Underground book is now available from bookshops.
MetroTravel has five pairs of tickets, for lucky readers, to the official book launch next Tuesday.
It takes place at the London Review Bookshop in Holburn and will feature guest appearances by poets Wendy Cope, Jo Shapcott and George Szirtes.
Featuring many of the poems that have appeared on the Tube network since the start of the programme in 1986, the book includes 'Sonnet 18' by William Shakespeare and 'Her Anxiety' by W.B Yeats.
These will also be displayed on the Tube.
To win a pair of tickets, email your name and contact number to metrocompetitions@tfl.gov.uk, with the answer to the following question, by 5pm today.
Winners will be selected at random.
Which Shakespeare poem appears in the book?
For more, visit tfl.gov.uk/poems
It'll turn up somewhere...
A STUFFED puffer fish, human skulls, breast implants, a lawnmower and false teeth are not things you associate with transport but, for the Lost Property Office (LPO), it's all in a days work.
Celebrating 75 years of reuniting passengers with their property, the LPO is one of the largest offices in the UK.
It handles almost 200,000 items a year that are left behind on buses, the Tube, Overground, Docklands Light Railway and taxis.
Last year the LPO received more than 36,000 books, 28,000 bags and 27,000 items of clothing - the most common items to be parted from their owners.
Join the last Cycle Friday
THE six guided bike rides into central London start at 8am and are led by marshals from the London Cycling Campaign.
Everyone will receive a bike check and a cycle route map before setting off from:
- Brixton to Russell Square: Corner of Brixton Road and Coldharbour Lane
- Finsbury Park to St Paul's: Finsbury Park Gate, Seven Sisters Road
- Mile End to St Paul's: Under the green bridge near Mile End station
- Ravenscourt to Trafalgar Square: Ravenscourt Park Tube
- Swiss Cottage to Holborn: Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, at the junction with Swiss Cottage Gyratory
- Greenwich to St Paul's: Cutty Sark Gardens, King William Walk
Visit tfl.gov.uk/cycling
