Swedish furniture giant IKEA will open its hotly-anticipated Oxford Street store on May 1 – marking a step towards returning the famous road to being Britain’s shopping Mecca.

An experiment to ban cars from Oxford Street for a day sparked a surge in high street sales, according to a survey.

Oxford Street is to go car-free for a day to demonstrate how pedestrianisation could work, if the mayor of London's plans go ahead. The street will be closed to cars from 12:00 to 20:00 BST on Sunday ...

It's Britain's busiest shopping street and is perhaps as famous for its gridlocked traffic as its shops. But for eight hours on Sunday (21 September), part of Oxford Street in London was completely ...