The festival borrows the style and format of Paris' long-running, effortlessly cool Nuit Blanche events. But can London's (no longer quite so edgy) East End really pull of a Parisian-style art night ...

A stunning image of London ... the UK on Sunday night. The 49-year-old Texan, a former United States Army officer, posted image on Twitter with the caption: 'Good evening London from @Space ...

These atmospheric images ... London of the 1930s - cloaked in darkness. They were collated by a pair of photographers called John Morrison and Harold Burdekin for a book called London Night ...