Watch as half-shredded Banksy picture sells for £18m in London October 15, 2021 A Banksy picture which was half sliced by a shredder concealed in its frame when it was sold at auction fetched £18.4m when it went back under the hammer in the same room in London last night. Watch the full report.
Londoner on furlough finds fortune in the Thames June 30, 2021 Furloughed from her job and confined to London by coronavirus lockdowns, Flora Blathwayt founded a business based on rubbish she retrieves from the muddy banks of the River Thames. Watch the full report.
Khan calls for end to ‘everyday extortion’ of unfair charges for leaseholders April 27, 2024 London Mayor Sadiq Khan is urging ministers to end the “everyday extortion” of unfair service charges for leaseholders.
Shaun Bailey hits out at City of London’s ‘polite drug users’ May 3, 2021 Tory mayor of London candidate Shaun Bailey has hit out at the culture of “polite drug use” in the City, saying that white collar workers need to be a part of the solution to tackling cocaine-fuelled drug violence. Bailey told City A.M. in a wide-ranging interview, to be released later today, that “casual drug use [...]
Owner of Steven Bartlett-founded Social Chain eyes swoop for AIM-listed Mission May 12, 2024 London-based Brave Bison is currently in discussions with Mission's board and major shareholders to garner support for their proposal.
London Luton Airport plans for 1m more passengers given green light December 2, 2021 Luton councillors have approved proposals to expand the airport’s capacity for an additional one million passengers, according to reports. The decision means the fifth busiest airport in the UK will see 19m people a year using the airport for their travel, according to the BBC, which first reported the news. The airport will see an [...]
The King and I theatre review: Dated musical has some lovely bits February 2, 2024 The King and I returns to London with some lovely performances, but overall it feels a little dated
Omicron hospitalisations skyrocket by 67 per cent in London as new Covid restrictions seem inevitable December 27, 2021 The number of hospitalisations related to the Omicron variant is climbing rapidly across the UK, with a jump of 67 per cent in London alone. Across the UK, there were 36 per cent more hospital admissions in the week ended 24 December. According to the Health Service Journal, hospitalisations for Omicron skyrocket in the capital, [...]
All new London buses to be zero-emission Mayor says September 17, 2021 Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has announced that new Transport for London (TfL) buses will be carbon neutral, as the UK prepares to host COP26. TfL said in a statement that by the end of next year, ten per cent of London’s bus network will be zero-emission as the network has committed to only [...]
Last-minute Christmas shoppers rush to central London as capital readies to slow down for the holidays December 24, 2021 Many Londoners rushed to Oxford Street and other major shopping districts in the capital this afternoon for their last-minute Christmas shopping, as the country readies to shut slow for Christmas Day tomorrow. Despite the army shoppers this afternoon, footfall in central London has dropped more rapidly than elsewhere in the country over the last week [...]