Commuters stay underground as high-flyers shun cable cars November 20, 2013 ONE of London’s great white elephant projects – the Emirates Air Line cable cars – was used by just four regular commuters in the week from Saturday 13 October. With a maximum capacity of 2,500 people an hour, the link between the O2 in Greenwich and the ExCel centre at the Royal Docks operates well [...]
Hyder Consulting nets UK work but Australia drags on its profit November 20, 2013 HYDER Consulting, the engineering consultant behind the London Bridge station refurbishment and the Burj Khalifa skyscraper, reported a 20 per cent jump in UK revenues yesterday. Group revenues were flat at £150m and half-year profits slipped from £11.9m to £10.6m, however, with the weaker Australian dollar and a drop in performance bonuses behind the slide. [...]
Just four commuters use Boris’ £60m Emirates Airline cable cars November 20, 2013 One of London's great white elephant projects – the Emirates Airline cable cars – were used by just four regular commuters in the week from Saturday 13 October. With a capacity of 2,500 people an hour, the link between the O2 in Greenwich and the ExCel centre at the Royal Docks operates well below that [...]
Asda to launch click and collect in tube stations November 19, 2013 CUSTOMERS at Asda will be able to collect their weekly shops at London underground stations under plans announced today by the Walmart-owned supermarket chain. The company said it has struck a deal with Transport for London to open an initial six click and collect hubs at East Finchley, Wealdstone, High Barnet, Highgate, Stanmore, Harrow and [...]
Business bosses call for end to dithering on new runway plan November 19, 2013 DISGRUNTLED bosses have urged politicians to end their prolonged “dithering” on expanding Britain’s airports or face losing business to countries willing to allow more runways. More than a hundred corporate heads and business groups have signed the campaign to “Let Britain Fly”, which is backed by London First, the British Chambers of Commerce and the [...]
Chile: the most varied country in the world November 17, 2013 From mountains to desert, Ashwin Bhardwaj is enchanted by the diverse delights of Chile AT UNIVERSITY, we teased our Geographer housemate for doing a degree in “colouring in.” But we secretly envied his trips to exotic corners of the globe, digging ice cores and monitoring volcanoes. Visualising geography is difficult in England as this green [...]
Comfort curry for cold nights November 12, 2013 Alfred Prasad of Michelin-starred Tamarind, remembers his favourite dish growing up AT 29, Alfred Prasad was the youngest Indian chef to receive a Michelin star. Alfred was born in the central Indian city of Wardha and lived all over the sub-continent during his youth, an experience which expanded his mind to the immense variety and [...]
John Laing Infrastructure on top November 12, 2013 A strong bout of acquisitions helped John Laing Infrastructure Fund (JLIF) record strong growth in the six months ending September, results showed yesterday. The value of its portfolio rose £164.5m to £701.9m due to a spate of buys by the fund over the period, including boosting its stake in London transport’s radio communications network CityLink. [...]
Good jobs: On that key measure, London is the world’s top city November 11, 2013 LONDON is a global city, and together with a handful of other ultra-successful urban centres worldwide, the closest we have today to the ancient Phoenician and Greek city-states. Successful, open-minded, commercial cities have always attracted the best and brightest, something that was just as true in the Mediterranean in 600BC as it was in early [...]
City Matters: We need to unlock London’s full diversity to tackle its future challenges November 10, 2013 I TOOK my seat in the golden state coach on Saturday, to join the world’s oldest street pageant and be shown to the world as the 686th lord mayor of London. It’s a role that’s over 800 years old, and comes imbued with a huge amount of history. Every lord mayor brings something different to [...]