Northern Line services will be disrupted next week – and over the next three weekends July 28, 2016 The Northern Line will be disrupted over the next three weekends, and from Monday to Friday next week, as Transport for London (TfL) carries out track replacement work at Camden Town station. From Monday to Friday next week, northbound Charing Cross branch trains will travel only to High Barnet or Mill Hill East, while northbound [...]
These are the 10 most and least affordable London boroughs for buyers on an average annual wage October 8, 2016 London may have fallen out of the UK's top three regions for house price growth, but gaining a foothold on the capital's property ladder is still out of the range of many first-time buyers – and is unlikely to change anytime soon. The average London house price is 14 times higher than the average annual wage [...]
AB InBev buys London craft beer maker Camden Town Brewery December 21, 2015 Drinks giant AB InBev has snapped up London craft brewer Camden Town Brewery. The north London brewer is the second craft beer maker in the capital to be bought up this year, after Meantime in Greenwich was acquired by SABMiller this summer. The two may will be drinking buddies however, after a £71bn brewing mega-deal between AB [...]
London boroughs ranked in order of house price growth (if you live in Hammersmith, look away now) February 14, 2017 Official data published this morning suggested UK house price growth has got its mojo back – but things are looking less encouraging in London, where growth fell to a weak (relatively speaking) 7.5 per cent in December. But analysis of the data by online estate agent Emoov suggests the story is not the same across the whole of [...]
Rose English at Camden Arts Centre brings together the north east and the far east December 18, 2015 Camden Arts Centre | ★★☆☆☆ Camden Arts Centre takes Rose English’s neat exploration of movement and fragility and spreads it incredibly thinly over two and a half rooms, resulting in a jumbled and at times baffling collection of sounds and objects. You enter into a blacked-out room to the sound of a grand 10-voice chamber [...]
Criterion Capita’s LDN just got the thumbs-down from Camden council – so no underground pod hotel for London January 15, 2016 London's first-ever underground pod hotel has been turned down by Camden council. The Evening Standard reported that at a planning meeting last night, councillors said the LDN hotel, which would be on the fourth and fifth basement levels underneath a commercial block on Great Russell Street, will have a "minus five stars" rating thanks to [...]
Japan’s Asahi to bid for SABMiller’s European beers once Megabrew deal closes next week October 5, 2016 Japanese drinks giant Asahi is brewing a more than 500bn yen (£3.8bn) offer for SABMiller's Eastern and Central European beers, according to reports. Local newspaper Nikkei said yesterday Asahi is interested in SABMiller's beer businesses in the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary, which include beer brands such as Pilsner Urquell and Lech. Read more: SABMiller [...]
Scotch whisky distillery tours have boomed in the last five years, but here are three distilleries and breweries you can visit this weekend August 10, 2016 Och aye, the world of Scotch whisky has something new to raise a dram to. The number of visitors to Scotch distilleries boomed between 2010 and 2015, rising by 20 per cent to around 1.6m visitors last year, according to figures from the Scotch Whisky Association. Visitors to distilleries spent a total of £50m last year, [...]
These are London’s startup hotspots: More new businesses were created in Westminster, Hackney and Camden than any other part of the UK January 10, 2016 London continues to attract more startups than anywhere else in Britain, easing fears that rising rents could scare entrepreneurs away from the capital. Westminster was home to more new businesses than any spot across the country with almost 20,000 new ventures set up in the borough last year alone. Hackney and Camden were ranked second and third [...]
Market Tech Holdings sees Camden Market empire jump in value to £870m December 3, 2015 Camden Market owner Market Tech Holdings said its sprawling 14-acre north London estate has jumped by 15 per cent in value, in its first set of half-year results since floating on Aim in December last year. The company, which is now eyeing a move to London’s main market, said its total investment and property portfolio [...]