There are fresh calls today for buses to be banned from Oxford Street.
Hundreds of them travel down the busy shoping road every hour - one high street retailer claims the so-called "Wall of Red' is bad for business.
The strong figures come as West End retailers and hoteliers voted to continue receiving the support of New West End Company, the management and promotional company for London’s West End on 14 December, guaranteeing the area a £25million boost over the next five years.
With footfall and sales progressively building as Christmas approaches, the next two weeks are key for retailers. Footfall in the West End for 8 and 9 December was up 16 per cent year-on-year.
John Lewis reported record sales last week and Fortnum and Mason reported a record 8 December.
Having built solidly since November, figures released today show November footfall in London’s West End was up 5.5 per cent year-on-year.
This means the area is consistently outperforming high streets and shopping centres nationally, which saw an average footfall rise of 0.2 per cent, according to Springboard’s UK High Street Index.
Retailers across London’s West End also reported a rise in sales for November, up 2.3 per cent on the same month last year, above national sales which were up 0.4 per cent, according to the BRC UK Retail Sales Monitor.
Retailers in London's West End have reported a surge in Christmas shoppers over the weekend.
Sales are expected to top £200 million after a 17 per cent rise in the number of people out shopping on Saturday, compared with the same day last year.
Pop star Boy George has written a Christmas single for rising London band The Supreme Fabulettes and has directed his first ever pop video for them. The video of the single, You Ruined My Xmas, has had nearly 60,000 hits on YouTube in just seven days.
The Supreme Fabulettes are an all-male female close harmony group.
Their West End show Christmas With The Supreme Fabulettes is at Leicester Square Theatre on December 19th.
There are still 13 days to go until Christmas, but the holiday has come early for animals at London Zoo.
Penguins, lions and monkeys have all been handed special presents to keep them occupied.
Julie MacDonald reports.
Today has been dubbed Cyber Monday - the busiest day of the year for Internet shopping - a day when millions of Christmas presents are bought online.
According to the Royal Mail, around £5 billion will be spent on the internet, over the next two weeks.
Forty three percent of people are planning to do more shopping online this year, than they did last year.
If you live in Chelmsford, you have purchased more Christmas presents this way than any other UK town.
Residents of St Albans, Guildford, and London's West End, also prefer getting gifts on the web.
Online shopping can be risky. Read our tips on how to take care with what you are buying, from whom, and how you pay for your purchases.
Read the full storyAmazon has dubbed today Cyber Monday, as Londoners and other people around the UK start buying presents online for Christmas.
Royal Mail plays a key part in delivering parcels and other items ordered online, especially at this time of year.
This Christmas, it is forecast that £4.6 billion will be spent online in the two weeks from Monday 3rd December (source: IMRG and Capgemini).
Retail giant John Lewis gave us access to their distribution centre.
The Christmas tree shipped from Norway arrived in Trafalgar Square this morning.
