Uber, AA and Royal Mail urge Khan to scrap EV congestion charge plans July 3, 2025 A host of businesses including Uber, the AA and Royal Mail have urged Sadiq Khan to re-think rolling back the exemption for electric vehicles in London’s congestion charge. Some 28 business and green groups published an open letter to the Mayor arguing that changing the discount would threaten London’s clean air ambitions, while prompting a [...]
London Museum welcomes return of Smithfield shops and bars parade July 2, 2025 Smithfield’s parade of shops and bars is set to return to the City as part of the Museum of London’s move to Farringdon. The museum, which is moving from 150 London Wall, will redevelop not just the market but the properties surrounding it, hoping to draw in around two million visitors annually. Each property will [...]
Lords blast Renters’ Rights Bill: ‘The government is not listening’ July 2, 2025 Peers in the House of Lords have clashed with the goverment’s Renters Right Bill, arguing that the Commons hasn’t listened to their concerns about fixed-term contracts, student housing or holiday lets. The bill, which aims to rebalance the relationship between landlords and tenants, began its third reading in the House of Lords on July 1. [...]
Does anyone come out clean from Heathrow Airport power outage? July 2, 2025 Who comes out clean from the chaos that engulfed Heathrow Airport in March? Today’s revelations from the NESO report were damning for National Grid, the operator of the North Hyde substation that burst into flames, leading to a 16-hour power outage at the UK’s biggest airport. There had been back and forth for weeks between [...]
Greggs: Have we finally reached ‘peak sausage roll’? July 2, 2025 Greggs share price took a battering this morning as investors shied away from the high street bakery after a disappointing sales update. While Greggs blamed the slowdown on hot weather reducing demand for steak bakes and sausage rolls, analysts have pointed to more serious underlying issues. The unexpected announcement was the latest in a string [...]
Ryanair axes 800 flights due to Middle East conflict July 2, 2025 Ryanair has said it axed more than 800 flights last month due to the conflict in the Middle East, even as monthly passenger traffic edged up. Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers on Wednesday reported a three per cent year-on-year increase in traffic in June to 19.9m. Wizz Air, another budget airline with high exposure [...]
Heathrow: Fault that caused power outage was ignored for seven years July 2, 2025 Heathrow has said it is considering legal action against National Grid after it was revealed that a “catastrophic failure” of equipment led to the substation fire which caused a huge power outage at the airport earlier this year. A damning report into the incident found the UK’s electricity operator had failed to address excessively high [...]
Greggs: Shares crater as sweltering June set to hit profit July 2, 2025 Greggs has said it expects to report lower annual profit than last year as scorching temperatures in June impacted sales. The company told markets this morning that total sales in the first half of the year grew 6.9 per cent to £1.3bn, although like-for-like sales grew just 2.6 per cent. Shares fell by more than [...]
Exclusive: Taxpayers to front extra £4bn for recent HS2 delays July 2, 2025 Recent delays to HS2 have increased costs for taxpayers by up to nearly £4bn, according to a government document detailing the value of mega-projects in the UK. The Office for Value for Money, a cost-saving unit set up by Rachel Reeves, found deferrals over the last two years would increase costs on Phase 1 from [...]
Labour warned that hospitality ‘is being taxed out of existence’ July 2, 2025 The government faced serious warnings from MPs about the state of the hospitality sector during an afternoon debate in the Commons on July 1. Representatives from across the UK warned the government that high taxes were suffocating the sector – particularly for small businesses – putting ‘insurmountable burdens’ on businesses. “Hospitality is being taxed out [...]
