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Gatwick expansion green-lit as court throws out activists’ appeal

Transport & Infrastructure

Work on Gatwick Airport’s second runway can get under way after the Court of Appeal kicked out a legal challenge against the expansion project. Legal appeals brought by local resident Peter Barclay and the environmental group Communities Against Gatwick Noise Emissions (CAGNE) against the expansion of Gatwick Airport have failed in court for the second […]
Monitoring the situation: HSBC to add 46 CCTV cameras with ‘face detection’ outside new City HQ

Banking

Opinion

Britain has an AI minister – now it needs an AI answer

Opinion

The appointment of Kanishka Narayan, Britain’s first Cabinet-level minister for AI is an acknowledgement that this technology is the central economic question of the age, but the minister’s real test is whether he continues to build durable homegrown capability or instead subsidises dependency on non-European platforms, says Stefano Pasquali Kanishka Narayan’s appointment as Britain’s first […]
Susannah Streeter: investors are bracing for tax rises

Opinion

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Motor finance compensation in doutbt, Thatcher aide on 'No. 10 North' and: what is co-living?
Why Andy Burnham Could Spell Disaster for the UK Economy
Sky buys chunk of ITV, what the City makes of Burnham, and $8m World Cup tickets

Sport

Tour de France Femmes: World famous cycling race plunged into bra row

Sport Business

For penis injections at the Winter Olympics, read bra padding at the Tour de France Femmes, where officials are making extra checks on riders to ensure they are not cheating by inflating the size of their chests. The move comes after unnamed teams raised suspicions that some cyclists were using padding on their chests – […]
Wenger rubbishes Infantino sell-off plan as senior Fifa figures desert president

Sport Business

The Punter

Twilight and Thunder the Calls at Shergar Cup

Sport

SOME of the world’s best jockeys will line up at Ascot this Saturday for Flat racing’s annual team competition, the Shergar Cup. This year’s edition looks a high-class one, with the decision to move the Curragh’s Group One Phoenix Stakes to Sunday meaning that both Ryan Moore and Dylan Browne McMonagle are free to compete. […]
Keep Emit and Cover Up your sleeve for York

Sport
Diamond’s Brilliance can dazzle in the Nassau

Sport

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