Passengers urged to stay home as Heathrow closed following electrical fire March 21, 2025 Heathrow airport will be closed for all of Friday, after a large electrical fire at a nearby substation. Passengers are being urged not to travel to Europe’s busiest airport, with the website FlightRadar24 reporting that at least 1,300 flights will be cancelled. In the surrounding area in West London, around 150 people have been evacuated [...]
Week in Business: Is Keir Starmer leading the UK into recession? March 20, 2025 Following the PM's punchy op-ed in City AM, Editor Christian May gives his reaction to Starmer's article and puts the Prime Minister's prose in context.
Talking Finance: Five questions you should ask yourself before investing March 17, 2025 In this episode of Talking Finance, Marianna Hunt, a volunteer at City Pay it Forward, explains the five questions everyone should ask themselves before they start investing.
Abramovich aide Granovskaia wins High Court battle over Chelsea transfer March 14, 2025 Former Chelsea chief Marina Granovskaia, a close aide of Roman Abramovich, has won a High Court battle against football agent Saif Alrubie over a payment of more than £2m. Alrubie brought a lawsuit against Granovskaia, claiming that he was owed £2,182,782 in relation to Chelsea’s sale of defender Kurt Zouma to West Ham United in [...]
EU hits back at US with €26bn in retaliatory tariffs March 12, 2025 The EU has announced retaliatory “countermeasures” on €26bn worth of US goods, as the global trade war sparked by Trump’s package of tariffs continues to rage. Early on Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that there will be a two-stage process to implement the tariffs, first allowing current measures to lapse before [...]
The Editor’s Interview: Should the Tories be afraid of Nigel Farage’s Reform UK? March 10, 2025 In this episode, we see top Tory Andrew Griffth MP grilled by City AM Editor Christian May on the threat posed to the Conservatives by Nigel Farage's Reform UK.
FIA and Formula 1 accept General Motors and Cadillac to 2026 grid March 7, 2025 Formula 1 and its governing body the FIA have approved Cadillac’s application to join the 2026 F1 grid. The move comes after their bid was approved for assessment in November following on from major governance changes at General Motors and Andretti. “The FIA and Formula 1 can confirm that, following the completion of their respective [...]
Free Thinking: Will Musk regret putting Trump’s politics before Tesla sales? March 7, 2025 This week on Free Thinking, Alys Denby is joined by writer and City AM columnist Eliot Wilson to discuss whether Elon Musk is paying the price for mixing politics and business.
Football Regulator: Reform UK demand government ‘leave football alone’ March 7, 2025 Reform UK has slammed plans for a football regulator interfering in the Premier League, insisting the government should “leave it alone”. A Westminster Hall debate this week drew sarcastic digs from both sports minister Stephanie Peacock and her shadow counterpart Louie French on the football regulator, which has recently concluded a series of debates in [...]
Lloyds places thousands of jobs under review in tech overhaul February 7, 2025 Lloyds Banking Group has placed thousands of jobs in its IT division under review as the lender races to beef up its engineering teams and modernise its digital banking offer, City AM can reveal. The FTSE 100 bank told some 6,000 tech and engineering staff on Wednesday that their jobs may be at risk of [...]