Last orders for Amy Lame, but London still needs a night czar October 4, 2024 Amy Lame let Londoners down but that doesn’t mean we should abolish the post of night czar altogether. There are three ways we can make sure the next person to hold the post make the capital a 24-hour city, writes James Ford After eight years in post, Amy Lame is calling time on her tenure [...]
Alison Lee on bouncing back, Couples therapy and Aramco Team Series October 3, 2024 “Golf always came easy to me,” says Alison Lee, who left college aged 19 to turn professional and was playing in the US Solheim Cup team less than a year later. Lee cracked the top 25 of the world rankings in her debut season on the LPGA Tour, banking more than $600,000 and confirming her [...]
Chelsea squad worth €1.4bn. Rest of Conference League combined? €1.5bn! October 3, 2024 Favourites for the Europa Conference League Chelsea have a squad value of €1.4bn, just €100m less than the other 35 teams combined. The research by TransferRoom also shows the Londoners to be valued at over €1bn more than their closest rivals, Fiorentina. Enzo Maresca’s side are the overwhelming favourites to win the title. The calculations [...]
HS2: Never a cheaper time than now to dig Euston tunnel, rail minister told October 3, 2024 Whether HS2 finishes at Euston or at Old Oak Common, in London's outer suburbs, has been shrouded in uncertainty throughout this year.
Not ‘much to be optimistic about’ in London rental market October 3, 2024 Pressure on the rental market continues to build this autumn despite a cooling market earlier in spring, with more landlords selling up and more tenants looking for short-term homes, according to fresh data. More than three-quarters of agents have seen an increase in the number of tenants searching for properties, while more than half of [...]
Siemens chief hails ‘vote of confidence’ in new £200m train factory October 3, 2024 Siemens today opened its £200m rail manufacturing facility in Goole, East Yorkshire, where it intends to build trains for the Picadilly Line.
Revolut slams Meta for falling ‘woefully short’ in tackling scams October 3, 2024 Fintech giant Revolut has thrown its weight behind calls for social media firms to help reimburse scam victims, calling out Meta’s latest anti-fraud push for falling “woefully short”. The London-based banking app said on Thursday that it was “deeply concerned” Meta’s new UK bank data-sharing programme “does not address what’s required to tackle fraud”. Meta, [...]
Etoro: ‘Gradual thawing’ of financial markets fails to stop trading platform taking back step October 3, 2024 A “gradual thawing” of financial markets failed to stop the UK arm of stock trading platform Etoro taking another backwards step financially during 2023, it has been revealed. The UK arm of the Israel-headquartered trading and investment group has posted a net income of $125.7m (£95.8m) for the 12 months, down from the $147.2m (£112.2m) [...]
We’d drink to the departure of Amy Lame, but all the pubs are shut October 3, 2024 Good riddance to Amy Lame, Sadiq Khan’s useless ‘night czar’ who did nothing to tackle the regulation strangling London’s pubs, bars and nightclubs, writes Elliot Keck The United States has been responsible for furnishing us with many of the most iconic soundbites for free-market and small state advocates. Milton Friedman’s “nothing is so permanent as [...]
New ‘safe’ City of London cycle route to link Aldgate, Bank and Blackfriars October 3, 2024 A new £4.5m cycleway linking Aldgate to Blackfriars via Bank Junction has been proposed by the City of London Corporation.