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Exclusive: Richard Caring hits suppliers with mandatory ‘discount’ amid £1bn sale talks

Life&Style

The Richard Caring restaurant empire, which includes the Ivy Collection and Caprice Holdings, has demanded its suppliers take a 2.5 per cent “discount”, blaming “increased tax burden and cost of employment, cost of indirect products [and] services and also direct cost of food and beverage.” In a letter dated 3 June, signed by Richard Caring’s […]
Gold rallies to near-two month high as Middle East conflict intensifies

Investing

‘I tried to warn them, but no one listened’ – one man’s crusade against HS2

Transport and infrastructure

“History will not be kind to those who, if it is pursued, push through this silly scheme.” It is not far off a decade since Lord Framlingham decided to take drastic action against HS2, the deeply troubled high-speed rail project connecting London and Birmingham. The former commons deputy speaker staged a last-ditch attempt to kill […]

New Agreement Signed for Cycle Response Unit

Partner

The City of London Police (COLP) and the St John Ambulance London Cycle Response Unit (SJA CRU) have strengthened their long-standing collaboration with a new partnership agreement, funded by the Eastern City Business Improvement District (Eastern City BID). This strategic alliance aims to enhance public safety and provide a visible, reassuring presence across the City […]
British businesses celebrated in third year of The King’s Awards for Enterprise:

Partner
Phone Marking Sessions Helping Combat Mobile Theft

Partner

Big cities, big potential: The Spending Review rightly prioritises urban growth

Opinion

The Spending Review empowers UK city regions with transport and innovation funding to boost productivity and drive national economic growth, says Andrew Carter The Chancellor’s Spending Review rightly puts big cities at the centre of a plan for broad-based, long-term national prosperity. The UK’s big cities’ economies have tended to underperform, costing the country £50bn […]
The Government’s Jekyll and Hyde approach to business is confusing

City Talk

Visit a rooftop bar: London’s best sky-high drinking spots for summer

Life&Style

Find your favourite rooftop bar: London’s latest openings for 2025 are listed below Provencal themes are jolting drinkers out of the capital and to the south of France this spring, as many of the best London rooftop bars deck out their outdoor areas with escapist design themes. That’s why we particularly love The Culpeper, who […]

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How the modern world is changing grave stone design forever

Life&Style

Death is the only thing surer than taxes. But how we’re remembered is a strange and sometimes controversial business. Ralph Jones meets the people rewriting the rules, one grave stone at a time Stonemason Neil Luxton once agreed to use comic sans on a grave. Once was enough – he has refused ever since. Luxton, […]
Life on the edge: A deep dive into the crazy world of Margate

Life&Style
It takes a village: Do we need to rethink our attitude to old age?

Life&Style

Bath favourites for Premiership title but you cannot write off Cheika

Sport

Saturday’s sell-out Premiership final between Bath Rugby and Leicester Tigers feels like something from the 90s, when these two – alongside Wasps – were the powerhouses of English ovalball. But looking at the two squads set to clash at the 82,000-capacity Allianz Stadium in Twickenham this weekend, they couldn’t be any further from those teams […]
Florian Wirtz: Liverpool agree British record transfer fee of £116m

Sport Business

Lessons for Man Utd from Everton’s new stadium – by the architect behind it

Sport Business

The architect behind the new Everton Stadium on marrying history with future and why Manchester United chiefs should take note as they plot an Old Trafford rebuild. American architect Dan Meis knew he was going out on a limb when he submitted his design for Everton’s new stadium. Eschewing the trend for modern spacecraft-like arenas, […]