Sadiq Khan to run for third term as London mayor in 2024 election December 20, 2022 Sadiq Khan will seek a third term as London mayor, after being selected as Labour’s candidate for the 2024 election. Khan, who would be the first London mayor to win three elections if victorious in 2024, said it would be a “very tough election” and that “there’s still so much more to do.” There have [...]
London rents hit ‘record high’ of over £2,000 per month as shrinking supply hits tenants hard October 5, 2023 The cost of renting in London is now 12.1 per cent higher than it was last year, as tenants dish out “record” payments of £2,627 pcm to live in the capital, a new report from Rightmove shows. Over the last year, lodgers in the capital have seen their rents surge to fresh highs because the [...]
Premiership talking points: Top four, cancellations and London’s showpiece March 27, 2022 Round 21 of England’s premiership rugby competition saw the battle for the semi-finals intensify as Leicester secured the first of the four spots, while we saw yet another draw – this time not involving London Irish. Here are the talking points as internationals returned to their clubs from Six Nations duty. One down The league [...]
London calling: Capital regains prize as most searched-for property location December 21, 2022 The allure of the countryside during the pandemic has subsided as searches for homes in London have spiked to their highest levels since going into lockdown. Cornwall and Devon held the most searched-for locations for several months in 2021, now Brits are looking to head back to the capital, research from online property agent Rightmove [...]
WATCH: RNLI’s Tower lifeboats called out from new London station for the first time May 4, 2023 London’s busiest lifeboat rescue crew sprung into action from its new Waterloo Bridge home for the first time this week. The Tower team of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) launched from its newly-created multimillion pound station , after the dilapidated old one was towed away in January. Its previous station, which had parts of [...]
Sadiq Khan: London councils waste money bidding for levelling up cash January 30, 2023 Sadiq Khan accused the government of forcing local councils to waste money bidding for cash as part of the “levelling up fund”. Speaking in front of the Levelling Up Committee, he said councils were criticised if they fail to bid for funding from Westminster, even though only one in five councils is successful. The London [...]
London rent crisis deepens: Costs may soar to £2,700 as families face being driven in to poverty August 3, 2023 Average rental costs in London may soar to £2,700 per month next year, new figures suggest. Families in the city are being driven into poverty by “sky-high” rents, campaigners warned. The figures, gathered by City Hall, mean that many Londoners can expect to pay £133 more than the current average of £2,567 calculated by Rightmove. [...]
London: Shot in the arm for West End as Uniqlo UK boss says Covent Garden is the place to be April 27, 2023 Fashion chain Uniqlo said it was committed to London after opening its second store in six months. Alessandro Dudech, chief operating officer at Uniqlo UK said the company regarded it as honour to be opening a store in Covent Garden. He said it was an area of London with “cultural and retail heritage”. He added: [...]
The Square Mile and Me: James Ashton on Occupy London, the City’s history, and Balfour’s oysters March 16, 2023 Each week we ask the City’s great and good to delve down memory lane. This week, it’s James Ashton, the chief executive of the Quoted Companies Alliance, representing small- and mid-cap listed firms, and a former newspaper journalist What was your first job in the City? I wrote about advertising and media for Reuters, based [...]
‘US investors back themselves’: Why WE Soda will be heading to New York after snubbing London June 15, 2023 London was dealt a fresh blow yesterday when soda ash firm WE Soda revealed it had scrapped its plans to float in London just one week after making the announcement.