London Poppy Day 2015: Thousands of military personnel hitting London’s streets to raise money ahead of Remembrance Sunday October 29, 2015 Seen a few men in uniform on your way into work this morning? That's because thousands of military men and women are taking to London's streets to try and raise more than £1m in one day. Personnel from the Royal Navy, Army and RAF, as well as their supporters, are heading to 49 Tube and [...]
Rugby World Cup 2015: Tube travel busier than usual at Bank, Liverpool Street, Stratford and on Central, Jubilee and DLR lines as fans head to Queen Elizabeth stadium for France Romania game September 23, 2015 Commuters heading home this evening may be in for a surprise. Bank, Liverpool Street and Canary Wharf stations, along with the Central, Jubilee, DLR and Overground lines will be busier than usual because of the Rugby World Cup. Transport for London (TfL) is warning passengers to expect more crowded trains and stations as fans head [...]
City Moves for 11 January 2016 – Who’s switching jobs January 11, 2016 CBRE Matthew Leitch (pictured) has been appointed as senior director at CBRE Residential. He will be based in the commercial real estate services and investment firm’s Canary Wharf office and will be focused on the prime east London market. Matthew joins from Savills, where spent over five years as a director in the residential development [...]
Labour’s shadow City minister Richard Burgon remains a man of mystery in the Square Mile December 8, 2015 Poor Richard Burgon. For those who don’t know much about Corbyn’s shadow City minister, don’t worry. It turns out most of London’s financial sector don’t either. Back in October, Burgon appeared on Channel 4 News. As Labour’s new shadow City minister, you’d think he would’ve tried to prove his credentials for the role. Alas, his [...]
This design may just become London’s newest bridge across the Thames connecting Nine Elms to Pimlico November 26, 2015 A new design has been chosen as the option for a new bridge across the Thames connecting Nine Elms and Pimlico. The pedestrian and cycle bridge designed by Bystrup and Robin Snell & Partners has been crowned the winner of a competition for a new crossing over the capital's river. A panel of judges picked the spindly bridge concept from [...]
Bye-bye birdie: Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates will de-list from AIM after Qatar Brookfield takeover March 24, 2015 Canary Wharf owner Songbird Estates will delist from the AIM after submitting to a hostile £2.6bn takeover by Qatari and Canadian funds. The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Canadian property firm Brookfield will take Songbird private, forcing a compulsory acquisition of the remaining minority shares from investors who have not agreed with the deal. Investors [...]
End delays to London City Airport expansion and the whole UK will see the benefits March 15, 2016 UK airports had their busiest ever summer last year, collectively handling 78m passengers, and the indicators are that 2015 as a whole was the busiest year on record. London City Airport certainly had a record-breaking year, with 18 per cent growth in passengers to 4.3m. More people than ever are taking to the skies and [...]
Battle for Canary Wharf: Songbird Estates board caves to Qatari bid January 30, 2015 After a long, drawn-out battle, the board of Songbird Estates, the company behind Canary Wharf, has finally recommended a 350p-per-share offer by a joint venture between the Qatari sovereign wealth fund and Brookfield Property Partners to its shareholders. The board said that, as of 1pm today, the Qatar Investment Authority and Brookfield Property Partners had [...]
DHL’s new helicopter service will fly deliveries to Canary Wharf January 21, 2015 (Source: DHL Express UK) DHL Express has launched a helicopter service which will fly deliveries between London's Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf, whittling down delivery times by skipping traffic jams. The chopper will enable important documents to be transported between DHL's Heathrow base and the City in just 20 minutes, down from the two hours it [...]
Qataris win £2.6bn battle for Canary Wharf owner January 28, 2015 THE QATARI sovereign wealth fund is close to winning a two month-long takeover battle for Songbird Estates after convincing the Canary Wharf owner’s three major shareholders to accept its £2.6bn offer. The board of Songbird said yesterday that New York’s Glick Enterprises, which owns 29.5 per cent, China Investment Corporation with 15.8 per cent, and [...]