New job ad goes live: Metropolitan Police Commissioner at £293k, manage 46,000 staff, apply before May 4 April 13, 2022 The job advert for the next Metropolitan Police Commissioner has gone live, with the successful candidate tasked with making the force “demonstrably more professional”. Previous commissioner Dame Cressida Dick left the job last week, with her deputy Sir Stephen House temporarily taking the reins of the Met, which has around 46,000 police officers and staff, [...]
London developer Argyll pumps £27m into wooing workers with new office amenities April 13, 2022 The office is not dead, London developer Argyll has signalled with a new £27m refurbishment investment across eight buildings. The buildings, which collectively cover more than 275,000 square feet of central London, are dotted across St James’ Square, Cornhill and Mayfair. Argyll, working with architect and interior designer Damion Burrows, are splashing the offices with [...]
Extinction Rebellion: Scientists glue themselves to government department in climate protest April 13, 2022 Scientists aligned to the Extinction Rebellion group have glued themselves to the department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) building in a climate protest. In images and footage posted on social media, campaigners with the Scientists for Extinction Rebellion group, took part in the demonstration unfurling a banner saying ‘end fossil fuels now.’. This [...]
New York subway shooting: ‘Person of interest’ image released, as NYPD say he taunted mayor in online videos April 13, 2022 New York police have stepped up the state-wide manhunt for a “person of interest” who set off smoke bombs and shot 10 people and injured at least 23 23 on a New York subway. Tuesday’s attack led to armed police and emergency services cornering off the area in Brooklyn, as the NYPD named as Frank [...]
Tesco profit surges but bosses warn of sky-high inflation side effects April 13, 2022 Tesco has rebounded from the pandemic with a 65 per cent boost in operating profit, climbing to £2.56bn for the full-year.
Cybersecurity: Opportunities – and Challenges – for UK TMT M&A April 12, 2022 Cybersecurity is expected to be the biggest challenge and opportunity facing technology, media, and telecommunication (TMT) mergers and acquisitions professionals (M&A) in 2022, according to new research by Datasite, which surveyed 200 senior UK M&A professionals. The survey found that 54% of UK CEOs and 46% of senior M&A professionals said that cybersecurity presents the best [...]
Tory U-turn for breakfast as Crispin Blunt apologises for defending convicted sex offender MP Imran Khan April 12, 2022 Tory MP Crispin Blunt removed a post from his website and Twitter feed in which he had claimed Khan was the victim of a “dreadful miscarriage of justice”, after his fellow MP Imran Ahmad Khan, the MP for Wakefield, was found guilty on Monday of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy in 2008. The former justice [...]
Macron and Le Pen rematch over France’s global voice: in the choir or a monologue April 12, 2022 As Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen prepare to face off in the final round of France’s presidential election, most French voters (like voters anywhere) will probably be thinking more about their own economic situation than events in other countries. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine may still be in the headlines, but after a month it [...]
150-year-old Hackney church to be turned into workspaces April 11, 2022 The 150-year-old St Michael & All Angels Church in Hackney is to be turned into workspaces, as London’s offices fall further away from tradition post-pandemic. Boutique developer Aitch Group and property investor VFund have entered a joint venture to restore and develop the Grade I listed building, which is one of just six left [...]
Blend secures £120m boost for lending extra ‘muscle’ to UK property developers April 11, 2022 Property capital firm Blend Network has secured a record £120m boost to its lending of that extra “muscle” for UK developers. Blend, backed by OakNorth Bank chairman and former Barclays vice chairman Cyrus Ardalan, snagged the sum from a consortium of six large family offices “Obtaining a record £120m committed funding line from such a [...]