Gateley hits new revenue highs as acquisitions pay off July 16, 2019 Listed law firm Gateley last year passed the £100m revenue mark for the first time as a string of acquisitions boosted its top line. Profit before tax at the company jumped 8.9 per cent to £15.9m, on 20.2 per cent revenue growth, to £103.5m. Read more: First listed law firm Gateley delivers strong results as [...]
The Tide is London’s answer to the Manhattan High Line July 5, 2019 Taking place alongside this weekend’s Pride celebrations is Turning Tides, a brand new art, music and film festival on Greenwich Peninsula. LGBTQ collective Sink the Pink kick things off tonight, performing to crowds outside the O2 Arena amid inflated water droplets by LA-based artist Geronimo. Turning Tides Festival celebrates the opening of the first kilometre [...]
Why this new build is already a Grade-I listed building June 28, 2019 It’s hard to think of a more enviable location in London to call home than Regent’s Crescent. With the 400 acres of Regent’s Park on your doorstep, extensive private gardens front and back, and the shops and restaurants of Marylebone just minutes away, the three-million budget you need to move in (and that’s for a [...]
Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing to pay tuition fees for class of Chinese students June 19, 2019 Hong Kong’s richest man Li Ka-shing has promised to pay tuition fees for a class of Chinese university students. His charitable foundation will fund Shantou University’s 2019 incoming class for up to five years. Li’s pledge will cost 100m Chinese yuan (£11.5m) a year. The 90-year old is worth $30.04bn (£23.8bn) according to Forbes. The [...]
Tory leadership vote: How the second round ballot works June 18, 2019 Tory leadership hopefuls face another hurdle in the race to become the next Prime Minister when a further round of voting takes place today. Who are the Tory leadership contenders? With 114 MPs backing him, Boris Johnson is guaranteed a place in the final two, where he will face either: Michael Gove Sajid Javid Jeremy [...]
Cut the obfuscation and let Britain move beyond Brexit June 17, 2019 Gone ’til November. The lyrics of rapper, activist and one-time Haiti presidential candidate Wyclef Jean. And it is the view of the great many of those vying to be Prime Minister: while we might be in the EU until October, we will be gone by November. You’d be forgiven for raising an eyebrow. Groundhog Day [...]
Queen’s Birthday Honours 2019: Oscar-winner Olivia Colman among 1,000 on main honours list June 8, 2019 Oscar-winner Olivia Colman was among more than 1,000 people to receive honours on the Queen’s birthday after becoming a CBE. Andrew Parker and Alex Younger, the heads of MI5 and MI6 respectively, were among those to receive a knighthood, along with Bafta winner and theatre actor Simon Russell Beale. Read more:The Queen marks D-Day anniversary [...]
Pawning the family treasure: Rare chess piece set to fetch up to £1m June 3, 2019 A rare and long-lost medieval chess piece could fetch up to £1m at an auction in Edinburgh tomorrow. Sotheby’s is putting a Lewis Chessman piece up for sale some 55 years after it was snapped up by an eagle-eyed Edinburgh antiques dealer for £5. Read more: David Hockney's pool painting breaks record for living artist [...]
Horse Racing Betting Tips: Back Sextant to get the measure of handicap rivals May 31, 2019 IT WON’T take an expert to pick out SEXTANT as the most likely winner of the penultimate race today. Sir Michael Stoute’s fast-improving four-year-old is getting better with every gallop, and though he may not be the biggest price winner you’ll ever back, he looks a very solid bet at 9/4. So many of Sir [...]
Keystone Law beats market expectations in first full-year results since listing May 8, 2019 Keystone Law today posted a 35 per cent increase in revenue in its first full-year results since it became the third English law firm to float in November 2017. The firm beat market expectations with revenue of £42.7m and adjusted profit before tax of £5.1m. Keystone, which launched in 2002, operates a platform model, recruiting [...]