New York kicks off crackdown November 15, 2011 City of London restarts legal action against protest camp THE CITY of London yesterday vowed to press ahead with plans to evict protesters from its land, hours after US police tore down a connected campsite in New York. Legal efforts to move the St Paul’s protesters are set to resume, without the explicit support of the [...]
Robertson: Spurs must end Olympic Stadium row September 28, 2011 SPORTS MINISTER Hugh Robertson last night urged Tottenham to accept a £17m public funding package and drop their legal battle for the Olympic Stadium. Mayor of London Boris Johnson made the take-it-or-leave-it offer, which would helps Spurs build a new ground in north London, yesterday in a bid to head off next month’s scheduled High [...]
Robertson: Spurs must end Olympic Stadium row September 28, 2011 SPORTS MINISTER Hugh Robertson last night urged Tottenham to accept a £17m public funding package and drop their legal battle for the Olympic Stadium. Mayor of London Boris Johnson made the take-it-or-leave-it offer, which would helps Spurs build a new ground in north London, yesterday in a bid to head off next month’s scheduled High [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING April 17, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Canadian approached for BoE job Mark Carney, governor of Canada’s central bank, has been informally approached to be a candidate to replace Sir Mervyn King as head of the Bank of England in June next year. One of the world’s most respected central bankers, Carney also heads the Financial Stability Board, which oversees [...]
TIED TO THE TRACK October 4, 2011 West Ham not allowed to ditch athletics facility for 125-year lease of London 2012 Olympic Stadium WEST HAM will not be able to scrap the running track once they have moved into the Olympic Stadium, despite concerns being raised over its effect on sight lines and atmosphere. Baroness Ford, chair of the Olympic Park Legacy [...]
TIED TO THE TRACK October 4, 2011 West Ham not allowed to ditch athletics facility for 125-year lease of London 2012 Olympic Stadium WEST HAM will not be able to scrap the running track once they have moved into the Olympic Stadium, despite concerns being raised over its effect on sight lines and atmosphere. Baroness Ford, chair of the Olympic Park Legacy [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 20, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES BP, TOTAL AND STATOIL SECURE ANGOLA RIGHTS A new exploration frontier off the coast of Angola that may be similar to oil fields found in Brazil is to be opened after the government of the African country awarded drilling rights to some of the world’s largest energy groups. Britain’s BP, Total of France [...]
Keydata wins court ruling against FSA October 11, 2011 KEYDATA founder Stewart Ford compared the Financial Services Authority to a “runaway train” after a High Court judge ruled that the watchdog acted “unlawfully” in its use of legally privileged emails in its enforcement investigation. “Right from the beginning I have said the FSA has acted in an underhand way and I believe that the [...]
Drink, drugs and violence: activists stand accused of wrecking the City November 21, 2011 PROTESTERS at St Paul’s are living in human waste, desecrating the cathedral and exposing children to users of hard drugs, according to new legal documents. The City of London filing at the High Court describes a scene of degradation, where gutters are used as toilets, activists daub graffiti on the walls of the seventeenth century [...]
Drink, drugs and violence: activists stand accused of wrecking the City November 21, 2011 PROTESTERS at St Paul’s are living in human waste, desecrating the cathedral and exposing children to users of hard drugs, according to new legal documents. The City of London filing at the High Court describes a scene of degradation, where gutters are used as toilets, activists daub graffiti on the walls of the seventeenth century [...]