Student accommodation group Unite sell 99 per cent of beds and makes £71m Stratford acquisition October 10, 2022 Student accommodation group Unite has sold 99 per cent of beds for the academic year, as it makes a major acquisition in Stratford for £71m. The company reported an increase in the number of beds bought up from 94 per cent in 2021/22 to almost 100 per cent this year, as university returns to being [...]
London start-up founders reap rewards of almost £200m in loans October 10, 2022 London has received more start-up loan cash than anywhere else in the country after a decade of a programme supporting entrepreneurs. Founders in the capital have received £187.1m through the government backed Start Up Loan scheme, with businesses across the country being provided with loans and mentoring. The scheme has delivered more than 97,000 loans [...]
London toasts Europe’s top talent at ‘Oscars of Tech’ October 7, 2022 Europe’s leading investors and technology entrepreneurs gathered in London’s Hilton Park Lane last night, Thursday 6 October in celebration of the 20th annual GP Bullhound Investor Allstars. Dubbed the ‘Oscars of the tech world’, Investor Allstars is one of the leading events celebrating the very best of Europe’s vibrant tech industry, shining a light on [...]
Ralph Hasenhuttl on thin ice as Southampton head to free-scoring Manchester City October 6, 2022 The irony will probably not be lost on Ralph Hasenhuttl if his last match in charge of Southampton proves to be Saturday’s trip to Manchester City. The Premier League champions are the team that Saints’ new regime has looked to more than any other in recent months as it has sought to shake up the [...]
Richard Eyre: ‘Usually there’s a dark side to national treasure actors’ October 6, 2022 The number of over-60s around the world will almost double from 2015 to 2050, according to the latest data from the World Health Organisation. Amid this staggering rise, the NHS is facing constant calls for further funding, and health inequality widened significantly under the pandemic. For Richard Eyre, director of Iris and Notes On A [...]
Girls Girls Girls is the Finnish dating drama you need to see October 6, 2022 The near-exhausted coming of age genre gets a fresh perspective in this tale of love and lust from Finland. Set in Helsinki, Girls Girls Girls follows three young women in search of physical and emotional fulfilment. There’s Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff), who feels exasperated with the world until she meets and falls for Emma (Linnea Leino), [...]
Conservative police chiefs are smoking something if they crack down on cannabis October 6, 2022 The benefits - in terms of health, economics and crime - of decriminalisation would be far greater than slapping more restrictions on weed.
Let’s be honest, growth is the only option and Liz Truss’ economic plan is all we have October 6, 2022 “Growth, growth, growth,” Truss declared in her closing speech yesterday at conference in Birmingham. And she’s right. There simply isn’t another option — either for the government or the country.
Truss vows to defeat ‘enemies of enterprise’ as PM gets heckled by Greenpeace October 5, 2022 Liz Truss has vowed to defeat the “enemies of enterprise” and said her three biggest priorities are “growth, growth, growth” in her Tory conference speech, after being heckled by Greenpeace protesters. The Prime Minister launched a strong defence of her government’s recent mini-Budget, saying that “cutting taxes is the right thing to do morally and [...]
Film and TV trade body says plunging pound doesn’t guarantee booming sector October 4, 2022 Although the plunging value of the pound could mean big bucks for the UK film and TV sector, the trade association Pact warned that the industry must do more to keep up with this demand. It comes after Adrian Wootton, the chief executive of the British Film Commission (BFC), told the Guardian that demand for [...]