Under the neon lights of Tokyo, the City is forging closer relationships with Asia February 4, 2019 Next week will see me travel to one of the busiest cities on earth, home to nearly 40m people and more square footage of advertising and media than anywhere else in the world: Tokyo. My visit is part of a 12-day trip to four Asian cities that will also take me to Seoul, Hong Kong, [...]
Heathrow hawk stolen in smash-and-grab raid near airport February 2, 2019 A hawk which kept birds away from Heathrow Airport has been stolen. Milo, a six-year old Harris Hawk, was stolen after a gang smashed their way into a van near Heathrow. Owner Layla Bennett, 34, was checking into the Mercure hotel near the airport on Tuesday when the robbery took place. Bennett, who is offering [...]
Disruption from snow and ice could continue today with Met Office weather warnings remaining in place February 2, 2019 Disruption from the snowstorm that hit the UK at the end of this week could continue today with a number of Met Office weather warnings still in place. The south of the country is covered by a yellow warning for snow and ice which means some roads and railways are likely to be affected with [...]
London snow: Southeastern tells commuters to avoid peak trains amid ice warning February 1, 2019 Londoners were today issued with an ice warning as snow hardens in the capital and around the south east. The Met Office has posted a yellow warning for ice for tonight and into the weekend, though snow will gradually ease through the night despite temperatures continuing to drop below freezing. Read more: Snowpocalypse – what to [...]
Opinion: Sadiq Khan should be careful what he wishes for when it comes to rent controls in London February 1, 2019 The recent news that Mayor of London Sadiq Khan is moving ahead with plans to impose rent controls on London’s housing market comes as no surprise. Khan’s been contemplating regulation for some time and it featured in his 2016 pre-election manifesto, but nearly three years later, we still haven’t actually seen a concrete policy. Khan [...]
Property of the Week: Leinster Gardens, the HQ of Andreas Papadakis’ publishing house Academy Editions goes on sale February 1, 2019 Faithful followers of fashion in interior design and architecture will have heard of Academy Editions. Leinster Gardens, Bayswater, £7.95m Back in the 1970s, it published over a thousand influential books and magazines dedicated to architecture and the decorative arts, drawing artists like Roy Lichtenstein, David Hockney and Charles Jencks to the Bayswater headquarters of the [...]
Rough sleeping in the Square Mile nearly doubled last autumn January 31, 2019 The number of rough sleepers in the Square Mile rose to 67 during autumn last year, up 86 per cent on the year before. A new government report found the City of London to have the ninth-highest number of people sleeping in the open air of any local authority in England. Local councillor Tijs Broeke [...]
Snow to hit London tonight as Southeastern warns of busier peak trains January 31, 2019 The Met Office has issued an amber “danger to life” warning for parts of the UK as icy roads and heavy snow up to 10cm deep is expected to settle a day after the cold snap led to disruption for airports and schools. Hours of snowfall tonight could lead to between 3cm and 7cm of snow accumulating [...]
London salaries 2019: Which jobs will get you a pay rise? January 31, 2019 Talent has rarely been so in demand as it is in 2019. Against a backdrop of a record employment rate, UK wages keep going up, with pay growth hitting a post-financial crisis peak of 3.3 per cent in late 2018. Read more: Employment rate hits new record as wages grow But as a UK-wide average [...]
Amazon’s UK boss Doug Gurr appointed a trustee at the National Gallery January 30, 2019 Prime Minister Theresa May has made the UK country manager of Amazon a trustee of the National Gallery. Doug Gurr, who was also formerly president of Amazon in China, first joined the e-commerce site in 2011. A statement from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said Gurr had previously worked for the UK government, and [...]