Covid-19: Government aims to avoid winter restrictions with booster jabs and teenage vaccinations September 14, 2021 Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said Government intends to avoid a return to Covid-19 restrictions through booster jabs and vaccinations of 12 to 15-year-olds, as he set out an autumn and winter pandemic plan. The Health Secretary said ‘Plan A’ is a series of pharmaceutical interventions, with the objective of avoiding “unsustainable pressure” on the [...]
Business lunch bookings are booming and the City is leading the charge August 27, 2021 Working lunches have bounced back after more office workers returned to the City following Freedom Day, according to new data. Reservation platform TheFork UK has revealed a 26 per cent jump in lunchtime bookings following ‘Freedom Day’, or 19 July, when the government dropped its work from home message and the final lockdown rules and [...]
Build, Baby, Build: If you want growth, you need social housing July 24, 2024 Key workers are being priced out of renting in London, placing huge human and economic costs on the capital. By recognising the value of social housing to people and to the economy, we can make the case to build more much-needed social housing in London and create a more affordable, more inclusive city for all [...]
UK workforce burned out as pandemic impact bites July 27, 2021 A recent survey by Tide has found that almost 40 per cent of the workforce in the UK say they have experienced burnout at work in the past 12 months. The impact of the pandemic, working from home and the stresses and strains of an unstable economy are thought to be large contributing factors. It [...]
Grainger Network Rail and Bloc Group announce partnership to build 2,000 UK homes November 22, 2023 Grainger has announced a partnership with Network Rail and the property developer Bloc Group to deliver 2,000 homes across Britain.
Spring Budget 2024: Is levelling up coming to Canary Wharf? Hunt injects £243m into new homes in banking district March 6, 2024 Canary Wharf is set to receive a multi-million pound cash injection to build more homes in the capital’s banking district.
Five minutes with the man behind London’s newest must-have membership July 17, 2024 Guy Ivesha's 1 Warwick and Mortimer House are members' clubs for a 2024 generation
Vault Festival cancels 2024 plans due to lack of funding March 13, 2024 The biggest arts festival in England will not go ahead in 2024 after it did not secure the necessary funding. The Vault Festival took place in the vaults below Waterloo Station from 2012 until 2023, with breaks during the pandemic, and was touted as London’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe. Through its unique business model [...]
Canadian firm votes for City of London with two property mega deals in pipeline May 30, 2021 Canadian private equity giant Brookfield is set to buy City of London property Plantation Place for a whopping £635m – the biggest office deal since Covid-19 changed working patterns and emptied offices. The deal is expected to complete this week, the Sunday Times first reported, with Brookfield also in separate talks to buy Milton Gate, [...]
Daily Mail publisher reports revenue drop with job cuts looming November 18, 2021 Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), owners of Metro and MailOnline, announced revenue was down one percent to £1.1bn this morning as it continues to feel the impact of the pandemic on events.