How the UK took on Hollywood (and why Trump wants it back) May 22, 2025 With expanding film studios and its creative talent, the UK is forging a new era of Hollywood. It's no surprise Trump wants it back.
Charles Tyrwhitt to move London office HQ as profits climb May 21, 2025 British menswear brand Charles Tyrwhitt is set to relocate its head office from London Bridge to Bankside in a drive to occupy higher-quality, more sustainable space. Charles Tyrwhitt will relocate its 240-strong head office team to The Forge on Bankside, a few minutes walk from the Tate Modern. Alongside Charles Tyrwhitt, new occupiers include advanced [...]
Kwik Fit founder Sir Tom Farmer dies aged 84, family says May 10, 2025 Scottish entrepreneur Sir Tom Farmer has died at the age of 84, his family has announced. Sir Tom, who founded the garage chain Kwik Fit, was also a former director of MyTravel Group and Scottish Power, died at his Edinburgh home on Friday. He owned a majority stake in Hibernian Football Club for 28 years, [...]
Pat Cummins: Top players should take pay cuts to save Test cricket May 3, 2025 Australia captain Pat Cummins has suggested that leading international players should take a pay cut to help save Test cricket. Cummins says he would be open to accepting a lower central contract as the price for providing more funding to the smaller nations to ensure they can continue to play and compete in the Test arena. The [...]
‘London is back and buzzing’: Knight Frank’s head of London offices on the City’s comeback May 1, 2025 Knight Frank's head of London offices Philip Hobley tells us about his favourite City spots ahead of the company's move into the Square Mile.
Everton owners in talks to buy data firm to help manager Moyes April 30, 2025 In this week’s Ahead of the Game: Everton’s Friedkin Group looks to data, Hundred and World Cup latest, bookmakers and the EFL. Everton’s owners, The Friedkin Group, are in talks over buying a data company to assist David Moyes with player recruitment. Following an internal review conducted at Goodison Park since the multi-club owners bought [...]
Demand for London offices hits post-financial crisis high April 14, 2025 Demand for office space in Greater London and the South East rose to its highest first-quarter level since the financial crisis in 2025, according to new data. Around 1.2m sq ft of space was let in London during the first quarter of 2025, up 39 per cent on the final quarter of 2024, according to [...]
A decade of departures: Moscow only city with worse millionaire exodus than London April 9, 2025 If Knight Frank’s inaugural Global Cities survey was anything to go by, London had the world at its feet in 2013. Respondents to the property giant’s annual poll of global wealth advisers declared the UK capital—not Singapore, Geneva, or any of America’s embarrassment of global cities—the ‘most important city in the world’ to their ultra-high-net-worth [...]
Knight Frank makes the City its global headquarters April 8, 2025 Knight Frank, the global asset management and real estate giant, has signed a deal to relocate its global headquarters to the City of London. The business will relocate from its current HQ at London & Regional’s 55 Baker Street in the West End, where it has been since 2008, to One Liverpool Street after penning an [...]
Robert De Niro sees double in gangland thriller The Alto Knights April 7, 2025 Robert De Niro stars opposite himself in The Alto Knights, a mafia drama based on a true story. It follows the power struggle between Frank Costello (De Niro), the kingpin of New York’s organised crime syndicate; and Vito Genovese (also De Niro), an embittered boss and childhood friend of Frank’s. When Vito orders a hit [...]