How I left my rugby career to make best-selling sausages with my brothers April 9, 2024 Plenty of entrepreneurs have interesting stories about how their business got off the ground. Olly Kohn’s, however, is remarkable even by those standards.
London’s Right to Buy-back scheme unlocks over 1,500 council homes August 9, 2022 More than 1,500 London homes have been brought back into public ownership over the past year, under London mayor Sadiq Khan’s Right to Buy-back scheme. The scheme, announced last July, aims to boost the capital’s supply of council homes, giving 14 boroughs access to £15m to buy back properties which have been – or will [...]
Railsr raises $46m at close of latest funding round October 6, 2022 Embedded finance platform Railsr has closed its Series C round, four months after rebranding from Railsbank.
How I built a successful brand – with the help of a panda and some bamboo March 19, 2024 One of Britain’s best-loved start-ups is now a fixture of many bathrooms. But it all started in a bamboo forest in China, The Cheeky Panda founder Julie Chen tells Ambition A.M. Is the secret really just the cute panda? Whatever the reason for their success, Julie Chen and her husband have certainly found it in [...]
Downing tools: Investors pile into bets against B&Q owner as DIY boom slows August 18, 2022 The troubled owner of retailer B&Q has become the most shorted stock on the London Stock Exchange this week as two top investors revealed hefty bets against the firm.
London council energy firm nets millions in grants but supplies just 476 homes October 24, 2021 A LONDON council has raised eyebrows after taxpayers have handed over nearly £40m to its subsidiary energy company in the past five years, yet the provider still only serves 477 customers – and all but one are residential dwellings. B&D Energy is wholly owned by Barking and Dagenham Council. Since it was founded in 2016, [...]
In a housing crisis it’s mad that millions of vacant offices cannot be turned into homes January 29, 2024 Planning regulations are preventing vacant offices from being turned into vitally-needed homes despite the housing crisis, writes Tyler Goodwin
England on track to shed all Covid restrictions this month, Dowden says January 16, 2022 England is on track to shed Covid restrictions implemented last month including the country’s work from home advice, Tory party chair Oliver Dowden has said. Dowen said “it all seems to be heading in the right direction” as Omicron cases in the UK begin to sharply drop and hospitalisations plateau. Patients in intensive care have [...]
Iceland boss: Absence of government support on energy bills risks job losses and bankruptcy for firms August 23, 2022 Iceland boss Richard Walker has called on ministers to issue more support for businesses struggling with sky-high energy bills. Without a price cap on businesses’ energy bills, smaller firms would surely collapse, the supermarket’s managing director told CityA.M. An absence of further support for businesses was “really serious,” as the colder months approach, Walker said. [...]
London’s global reputation is at risk from soaring knife crime – it’s time to act February 11, 2024 To end the capital's knife crime epidemic, we need to create a new universal gold-standard youth service for London, writes Rayhan Haque