By: Shruti Tripathi

I am City A.M.'s news editor. I love interviewing entrepreneurs, carrying out investigations through freedom of information requests and covering all the latest goings on in the world's great city, London. I started my career as an intern at LondonLovesBusiness.com in 2011 and became editor in 2015. I joined City A.M. as deputy night editor in July 2016.

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Exclusive: TfL staff suffer stress, anxiety and depression while number of suicide attempts on the Tube hits 600

March 13, 2017

Nearly 6,000 Transport for London (TfL) staff have received counselling for issues including stress, anxiety, depression, train suicide and harassment, City A.M. can exclusively reveal. Figures obtained through a freedom of information request show that 5,810 Transport for London (TfL) staff received counselling between 2010 and 2016. TfL has spent over £4.4m since 2010 counselling [...]
UK house prices grew at their fastest pace for 12 months in February yet annual rate of growth fell

March 13, 2017

House prices grew at their fastest pace for 12 months in February, with average prices increasing 0.6 per cent. The average UK house price hit £297,832 due to strong performance in the east of England, new peak prices in Merseyside and Birmingham, and a return of growth in high value London property, according to Your Moves’ latest [...]
Four in 10 UK bosses are now non-UK nationals, a 31 per cent increase since 2006

March 13, 2017

The number of FTSE 100 firms with chief execs who are non-UK nationals has doubled since 2001, according to research by recruitment firm Odgers Berndtson. By the end of 2016 four in 10 FTSE 100 CEOs were non-UK nationals, a 31 per cent increase since 2006. The rise in non-UK national business leaders is partly down to a five-fold increase in [...]
Former L’Occitane boss and CVC Capital Partners plot bid for The Body Shop

March 12, 2017

Former L’Occitane boss Emmanuel Osti is plotting a bid for The Body Shop. Osti is working with CVC Capital Partners, which agreed to sell control of Formula One to John Malone’s Liberty Media last year, for the takeover. The Body Shop was put on the market by owners L’oreal last month. The French cosmetics giant [...]
Domino’s Pizza Group shares drop after UK like-for-like sales for 2017 miss analyst expectations

March 9, 2017

Domino's Pizza Group saw its share slide over 15 per cent this morning after reporting lower-than-expected like-for-like sales in the UK for the first nine weeks of 2017. The figures Sales at Britain's biggest pizza delivery firm's stores open for about two years rose 1.5 per cent during the period, much lower than the 10.5 per cent [...]
Former chancellor George Osborne to make £650,000 a year for a four-day-a-month role at BlackRock

March 8, 2017

Former chancellor George Osborne will be paid £650,000 a year to advise BlackRock four days a month, it has been revealed. Osborne started his role as a part-time senior adviser at the BlackRock Investment Institute, the asset manager's research arm, on 1 February. The role is focused on European politics, China's economy, and retirement planning in an age of [...]
London mayor Sadiq Khan welcomes progress made on devolution to London in the Budget

March 8, 2017

Chancellor Philip Hammond delivered a historic devolution agreement for Londoners today to "protect jobs and investment in the aftermath of Brexit". The devolution agreement focussed on infrastructure projects to help London mayor Sadiq Khan upgrade the capital's road, rail and Underground networks and boost its economy. It also confirmed the devolution of new powers to allow the mayor [...]
10 funniest reactions to Budget 2017 – we dare you not to laugh

March 8, 2017

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Chancellor Philip Hammond cracks jokes at the expense of the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn and himself during Budget 2017

March 8, 2017

Breaking: Philip Hammond aka 'Spreadsheet Phil' has a personality. The chancellor, who has been dubbed as boring accounting type, set the scene for the Budget today making a spring budget joke. 1. On Norman Lamont also abolishing the spring Budget "Ten weeks later, he was sacked! So wish me luck!" And that wasn't the only joke [...]
Budget 2017: Corporation tax falling to 17 per cent by 2020

March 8, 2017

Chancellor Philip Hammond today confirmed that corporation tax will fall to 17 per cent by 2020 – the lowest in the G20. The chancellor said "the UK needs a fair tax system" so that the UK becomes the "best place to start a business". From April this year, corporation tax will fall to 19 per cent, Hammond [...]

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