This Tube map shows average salaries near each London Underground station January 2, 2018 A new London Tube map reveals which stations have the highest paid jobs around them, with Barbican the top Tube stop for average salaries. Average salaries near the Barbican top £52,000, followed by Monument at £51,222, and Bank and Cannon Street, both at £51,217. Job search engine Adzuna compiled the map by analysing average advertised [...]
Brits brace for Christmas travel trouble with “Frantic Friday” on the roads ahead of series of rail strikes and station closures December 22, 2017 Brits today face the busiest date for travelling on the nation’s roads, at the start of a festive period stacked with travel troubles including rail strikes and numerous station closures. The RAC has warned drivers against travelling today where possible with last-day commuters mixing with an expected 1.25m leisure trips. It has been dubbed “Frantic [...]
Revealed: Behind the scenes of Carillion’s annus horribilis December 21, 2017 Troubled construction giant Carillion hit the headlines again yesterday after it announced its interim chief executive Keith Cochrane will be replaced almost three months earlier than planned. When Andrew Davies, who was set to take over on 2 April 2018, starts on 22 January, he will become the company’s third chief executive in six months. [...]
City A.M.’s Devilishly Difficult 2017 Sports Quiz Part 1: The good and the bad of the sporting year December 21, 2017 It has been another vintage year of sporting drama, from the triumphs of Anthony Joshua and Lewis Hamilton to the disappointments of England’s failed Ashes defence and Usain Bolt’s anticlimactic farewell. But as the dust settles on 2017, how much have you remembered about those defining moments, or the storylines playing out off the field, [...]
Carillion share price: Behind the scenes of the construction giant’s annus horribilis December 21, 2017 Troubled construction giant Carillion hit the headlines again yesterday after it announced its interim chief executive Keith Cochrane will be replaced almost three months earlier than planned. When Andrew Davies, who was set to take over on 2 April 2018, starts on 22 January, he will become the company’s third chief executive in six months. [...]
This property investment firm now owns a huge chunk of Seven Dials after acquiring six more shops | City A.M. December 20, 2017 West End investment firm Shaftesbury announced this morning that it has acquired six more shops on London’s Neal Street, in Seven Dials, for £24.6m. This means Shaftesbury now owns a whopping 70 per cent of the shops on the northern section of Neal Street, the busy road which connects Covent Garden Underground station to Shaftesbury [...]
Oxford Street businesses are up in arms over the road’s planned pedestrianisation December 19, 2017 Thought that businesses and residents would be happy about the plan to turn Oxford Street into a car-free zone? Apparently not, as groups in the area have launched a protest against the mooted pedestrianisation. Banning cars and buses from the infamous shopping district will lead to more pollution and gridlocked local roads, according to local [...]
Crossrail coming: The new Tube map featuring the Elizabeth Line has been revealed with a year to go | City A.M. December 19, 2017 With a year to go until the big start of Elizabeth Line services and opening of 10 new London stations, Transport for London (TfL) has unveiled a new December 2018 Tube map featuring the Elizabeth Line. The Crossrail project is nearing the final stages of construction and the Elizabeth Line, as it will be known [...]
As the first residents move into Television Centre, a new era is beginning for the BBC’s former home in west London November 28, 2017 When BBC Television Centre in White City, west London, was opened by the Queen in 1961, it was described by then director general Gerald Butler as “the largest, best equipped and most carefully planned factory of its kind.” Rather than goods, this building would manufacture culture and, at the time, it was the most ambitious [...]
London offices: City developments take a pause after bumper 2017 November 28, 2017 City office development fell sharply over the last six months, with the Square Mile pausing after 2017 saw the highest number of completions since the turn of the century. Development activity dropped by 11 per cent, with 7.3m square feet of office space currently under construction. Only eight new schemes, representing 804,000 square feet, started [...]