Evening tube chaos: Flooding hits Circle, Bakerloo, District, DLR, Hammersmith and City, Metropolitan, Waterloo and City, and overground lines as some stations are shuttered June 23, 2016 Flooding is causing chaos across the London underground this evening as commuters battle against the elements to reach polling stations. Monument Station remains closed and has been for much of the day due to flooding as the heavens opened on the day of the EU referendum; engineers are working to fix the problem. The Circle line still has sever delays [...]
Sadiq Khan slams Boris Johnson’s “toothless” Concordat housing scheme at Mayor’s Question Time June 22, 2016 Sadiq Khan has slammed former mayor Boris Johnson's flagship housing scheme for failing to stop new London homes being sold as "golden bricks" to overseas investors. Johnson's Concordat scheme, which was launched in 2014, was pitched as the solution to stopping major developers advertising London homes abroad first for overseas buyers, who had months more [...]
Dove and Persil maker Unilever to wash out gender stereotyping from adverts June 22, 2016 Unilever has vowed to step away from gender stereotyping in adverts. The company behind Dove, Persil and Magnum has made the pledge after it commissioning research showing 40 per cent of women do not identify with other women they see in adverts. Read more: Khan: "Beach body ready" adverts should be banned “Stereotyping in advertising is [...]
London is reaching breaking point when it comes to tech talent June 21, 2016 After the fanfare of yesterday’s launch, the second day of London Technology Week has taken a long, hard look at the challenges and strengths of the capital’s digital industries. The truth is that whilst celebration attracts investment, the long-term success of technology will only be secured by united action from the private sector to address [...]
London transport officials in early-stage talks to bring mobile coverage on to underground June 19, 2016 The London underground could be getting mobile coverage after it emerged Transport for London (TfL) is in talks with several potential providers. The discussions, still in their early stages, are thought to involve a division of the US networking giant Commscope, Airvana, which specialises in providing mobile signals in small spaces. The plans to bring [...]
Focus On Bloomsbury: House prices are blooming marvellous in this intellectual corner of central London June 16, 2016 Bloomsbury conjures up images of fusty intellectuals like former residents Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, EM Forster and John Maynard Keynes. Home to austere, prestigious institutions like the British Museum, the Royal Portrait Gallery and University College London, it isn’t necessarily somewhere you’d think of moving to. But the recent clamour for central London property has [...]
London mayor Sadiq Khan has cited a controversial “beach body” campaign as an example of advertising that would be banned under new rules June 14, 2016 London mayor Sadiq Khan has suggested that new advertising rules for TfL would extend beyond rulings made by watchdogs, citing one controversial campaign as an example. Khan announced yesterday that the rules would come into force from next month, blocking adverts that create unhealthy or unrealistic body images. And speaking on LBC today, Khan cited [...]
Go-Ahead shares price slumps after Thameslink profit warning June 14, 2016 Go-Ahead's share price has slumped over 16 per cent after it announced profits expected from Thameslink would be sharply less than expected. In a trading update, Go-Ahead said the cost of extra investment in Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) would halve its expected profit margins over the contract's lifetime. It said that the expected profit margin is [...]
Do Transport for London’s stricter ad rules present a problem? Not if the rules are applied with common sense. June 14, 2016 The Mayor faces two issues following his decision to have more restive rules on the type of ads that will appear on tube and buses. First is the principle that ads should not encourage impossible or unachievable body images. I think that many Londoners will agree with Transport for London and our new Mayor. These [...]
Focus On Walthamstow: the outer London hotspot where house price growth is frankly ridiculous June 13, 2016 There was a time when the postcode East 17 was tainted in the popular consciousness by a band of shirtless youths with odd taste in hats. But, thankfully, those days are gone, and it’s been restored to its rightful owner, Walthamstow in north-east London, and it’s one of the fastest-growing, up-and-coming places in the capital. [...]