Opinion-in-brief: Gas prices will exacerbate fuel poverty if we don’t act January 20, 2022 Gas prices will perpetuate the cost of living crisis in 2022, with hundreds of thousands of new households at risk of fuel poverty. On top of that, gas boilers still account for one in seven tonnes of carbon the UK emits each year. We need to act. The sooner we adopt low-carbon home heating and [...]
Speedy Hire confident about future following strong final performance May 30, 2022 The board of construction company Speedy Hire has announced it was confident about future performance following a strong set of final results. In the year ended 31 March 2022, the group’s revenue went up 16.3 per cent to £381.7m, while its adjusted profit before tax soared to £30.1m, 72 per cent up on the previous [...]
Letters to the editor: Tourist tax proves puzzling, cross words for our crossword February 16, 2024 Each week we at City A.M. Towers receive some enlightening and occasionally constructively critical letters. Here are our favourites from this week.
‘Not optimistic’: Experts pour cold water on hopes Green Day will boost energy sector March 24, 2023 Energy experts have raised doubts over the UK's ability to compete with rival markets in the upcoming "Green Day" legislation.
Wagamama owner has ‘little hope for future’ activist shareholder says, urging major strategy overhaul February 16, 2023 Wagamama owner The Restaurant Group has shown “little hope for the future” and is in need of a strategy overhaul, an activist shareholder has urged. Oasis Management, a hedge fund which holds a 6.5 per cent stake in the company, called on the hospitality firm to “re-align its priorities” and take immediate steps to restore [...]
Siesta! As even Sicilian sun-seekers complain, we need to change our working hours July 18, 2023 As a heatwave sweeps across Europe, we should be thinking of the impact these temperatures have on workers and productivity - and adapt before it reaches London too, writes Elena Siniscalco
Affordable homes: London targets not being met despite 50 per cent rise in construction projects, claim Tories February 14, 2023 London mayor Sadiq Khan has been criticised for being behind on building targets for affordable homes, despite new construction projects increasing on last year. City Hall says 900 more affordable homes were completed in the financial year to December 2022 than in the same period last year, a rise of 50 per cent. But Tory [...]
EDF prepared to work with nuclear rivals as French energy giant commits to UK November 7, 2023 There is room for multiple winners in the race to build mini-nuclear power plants in the UK, EDF told City A.M.
Floating offshore wind could offer £26bn boost to green economy March 27, 2023 Floating offshore wind gives the UK a chance to make the most of the green energy transition, argued industry body Renewable UK.
Train drivers to strike on 15 September August 31, 2022 Train drivers at 12 companies will walk out on 15 September in a dispute over pay. Disruption will affect services on Avanti West Coast, Chiltern Railways, CrossCountry, Greater Anglia, Great Western Railway, Hull Trains, LNER, London Overground, Northern Trains, Southeastern, TransPennine Express, and West Midlands Trains. The union said the operators had forced the workers’ [...]