Area guide: Wembley – house prices have risen by 10 per cent in the last year April 14, 2016 It may be the home of football, but Wembley’s also home to around 115,000 Londoners. And with its diverse housing stock and decent transport links, it could be your new home, too. Research from estate agent Hamptons International recorded a “surge” in transactions in Wembley last year, as hundreds of new build flats went on [...]
UK pensions puzzle: Pension freedoms spark both young and old to ask more questions April 14, 2016 Annuity providers may have been worried their work would drop off once the pension freedoms were introduced, but there's one organisation in the pensions sector that has seen work flood in. The Pensions Advisory Service has received a 71 per cent increase in people seeking guidance on their pensions since the pensions freedoms rules came in [...]
Property Entrepreneurs: Jake Willis, co-founder of London Shared, on the changing rental market and moving online April 14, 2016 There’s been lots of talk recently about house sharing as a way for young professionals to afford life in central London. And while the concept’s not new, there are few ways to make it simple. Many renters end up advertising rooms and interviewing potential housemates, feeling the heat as landlords demand full rent from day [...]
E-cigarette marketing drawing in young people, University of Stirling study finds April 14, 2016 Enticing marketing campaigns are directly linked to young people taking up e-cigarette "vaping", a new study from the University of Stirling has found. The spike in marketing campaigns of e-cigarettes in shops ties into increased numbers of adolescents reporting they had tried e-cigarettes or intended to try them, researchers found in a cross-sectional study involving [...]
E-cigarettes are “not safe” and damage lungs within minutes, particularly those of asthmatics, according to new study in CHEST Journal April 14, 2016 The mainstream, scientific view that "vaping" is not harmful has been challenged by a new study that has concluded e-cigarettes are "not safe" and cause immediate lung inflammation and damage. The research, from the Hellenic Cancer Society, surveyed 54 cigarette and e-cigarette smokers between the ages of 18-31, half of whom had healthy lungs, while the other had [...]
Boy at the Almeida review: a flawed portrait of listlessness and poverty April 14, 2016 Almeida | ★★★☆☆ Boy takes place on a winding conveyor belt, with actors and props spinning before the audience like dishes at an especially dour branch of Yo Sushi. What starts out as a sexual health clinic becomes a bus stop then a housing estate then a park then a street outside a nightclub. Often [...]
Alexa Chung for Marks & Spencer has dropped – but what’s the verdict? April 14, 2016 Marks & Spencer's latest attempt to win over the fashionistas (and presumably also the people that actually shop in M&S) landed in shops yesterday. The retailer needs all the help it can get to boost its bottom line – but will this be the collection to swing it? Here's our verdict… What is it? Archive by Alexa [...]
The PFA Young Player of the Year award should be redefined to recognise rookies such Arsenal’s Alex Iwobi or Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford April 14, 2016 Scan the nominees for this year's PFA Young Player of the Year award and you would be forgiven for thinking the assembled names represented those who didn't quite make the cut on the actual Player of the Year shortlist. Together Philippe Coutinho, Romelu Lukaku, Dele Alli, Jack Butland, Harry Kane and Ross Barkley have 881 [...]
Mothercare’s share price plummets as turnaround plan is dampened by international woes April 14, 2016 Mothercare's share price plummeted more than 17.7 per cent this morning as the baby retailer revealed its growth was being hurt by ongoing struggles with its international division. The figures In the UK, like-for-likes were up 2.1 per cent for the 11 weeks to 26 March, while online sales rose 5.6 per cent and now [...]
We’re a city of time wasters; 70 per cent of London millennials haven’t done anything exciting with their lives, according to the British Army Reserve April 14, 2016 Millennials are just a bunch of time-wasters, according to new research. Over 65 per cent of 18-35 year olds in London say they waste at least some their spare time, while more than one in ten millennials admit to spending almost a full day each week on social media and gaming. Each typical working day, the [...]