General Election live: Tories on course for majority, says Ipsos Mori poll December 12, 2019 Please manually refresh this page for our latest General Election updates. Voters head to the polls today for the third time in five years in what has been described as party leaders as the “most important General Election in a generation”. Read more: Readers send in pictures of their dogs at polling stationsRead more: Your [...]
Is this the end? Andy Murray’s emotional Australian Open defeat by Roberto Bautista Agut leaves tennis fans in limbo January 14, 2019 “If today was my last match, it was a brilliant way to finish.” That was how Andy Murray summed up an epic, gutsy and emotional contest with Roberto Bautista Agut at the Australian Open which left tennis fans in an enthralled yet slightly confused state. In the end Murray lost the five-set, first-round contest 6-4, [...]
London luxury goods repair service The Restory among startups picked for Farfetch incubator September 4, 2018 A London-based start-up which repairs luxury fashion items is among the businesses selected for Farfetch's retail technology incubator. The Restory, which restores designer items, is one of 11 start-ups selected for the 12-week Dream Assembly programme. Farfetch plans to support fashion tech start-ups with talks, mentoring and networking opportunities. "The companies we have selected for the first Dream [...]
Why Reports of Soho’s death have been greatly exaggerated, despite spiralling rents, modern developments and fierce competition March 28, 2019 When Casanova arrived in London in 1763, Soho was his first port of call. It was a place riddled with opium dens and brothels and coffee houses and restaurants, the place you went for cheap rent, good food, great drugs and the best parties. It’s been the go-to place for hedonists and sybarites ever since, [...]
Change is coming. Are you ready to reinvent yourself and your business? August 28, 2018 You can't keep good people down. That’s the takeaway from Usain Bolt’s decision to hang up his running shoes and don his football boots with Australian club the Central Coast Mariners. He used his 32nd birthday last week to practice with the club for the first time and, in so doing, reinvents himself from an [...]
Karl McDermott interview: Lord’s head groundsman on the Cricket World Cup, Ireland’s Test match against England and more March 26, 2019 When the Cricket World Cup final rolls around at the height of this summer the two teams and their fans won’t be the only nervous people inside Lord’s. Cricket, more than any other sport, is shaped by the surface it’s played on, and the man tasked with delivering the perfect one for its biggest occasion [...]
Amazon Echo Show review: Amazon’s smart speaker now has a screen, but how does it measure up to the competition? November 7, 2018 When Amazon’s hardware team first stuck a screen on their smart speaker, it felt like a backslide for voice-assistant technology, which had promised a future in which we would converse naturally with omniscient objects in our house about the population of Angola, or where we know that guy in the TV show from, all without [...]
Happy Hammers: West Ham starting to reach heights promised before move to London Stadium under Manuel Pellegrini December 20, 2018 The ugly scenes at the London Stadium towards the end of last season are now just a distant memory as West Ham sit pretty in the top half of the Premier League on the back of four straight wins for the first time in almost in five years. It was just nine months ago when [...]
Royal London joins group of investors preparing to vote against Unilever Netherlands move October 3, 2018 Royal London Asset Management is the latest Unilever shareholder to speak out against the company's plan to scrap its London listing and headquarters. Unilever has proposed to simplify its current dual-headed structure into a single holding Dutch company, with a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange, however a growing list of investors have announced [...]
Black Friday weekend: How to find the best deals and avoid the worst November 23, 2018 British shoppers are set to drop £7bn on products this Black Friday weekend, as they surf the web and hit the high streets in search of the most generous deals. But as price comparison site Finder.com predicts bargain hunters will spend an average of £220 each, with everybody discounting products it’s hard to know where [...]