WOOTTON’S ON TOP OF THE WORLD June 21, 2012 ONE hundred people, including the Lord Mayor’s daughter Sophie Wootton (pictured), took part in an abseil down the side of the Lloyd’s building for the Lord Mayor’s Appeal on behalf of the Trauma Unit at the Royal London Hospital.
Start your weekend with a bang this Thursday evening at 6pm June 17, 2012 How do you celebrate something as multifaceted as the City of London? It is a place of contradictions: both a glass-fronted metropolis and a cluster of stone relics, stubborn and robust. It throngs with people of all nationalities and hums with activity that is at once local and global. Crammed into a single square mile [...]
Four days of open doors and hidden treasures June 17, 2012 WALKING around at street level, you only glimpse a fraction of the City. For the most part, it operates and exists behind closed doors and, at close to 2,000 years old, it has its fair share of stories and secrets tucked away. “There is an enormous amount going on under the radar in the City [...]
Lord Mayor’s daughter goes to great lengths to help appeal June 13, 2012 THERE are still a few free spaces to join 120 adventurous souls who are planning to abseil from the 289ft high Lloyd’s building next Tuesday. It’s all in aid of a good cause. David Wootton, the Lord Mayor, is appealing to a few more Londoners to join the group to support the Trauma Unit at [...]
The City’s success needs a cocktail of local stability and global enterprise June 10, 2012 DURING my travels as Lord Mayor, I have sampled many cocktails at home and abroad. During my recent business mission to the Far East, I had a particularly fine one – a bright concoction known as the Singapore Sling, offered to me in the place where it was first mixed. It represents globalisation in a [...]
Queen marks 60-year reign with City service June 5, 2012 QUEEN Elizabeth II rounded off her four-day Diamond Jubilee yesterday on the famous Buckingham Palace balcony after celebrating in the City. A thanksgiving service, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, was held yesterday morning at St Paul’s Cathedral to commemorate the monarch’s sixty year reign. The Queen then attended a reception, hosted by the Lord [...]
LONDON 2012 IMAGE OF THE WEEK May 24, 2012 THIS week, Lord Mayor of the City of London David Wootton posed with the 1948 Olympic torch – used when London last hosted the Games. Created by Ralph Lavers to represent the best of British craftsmanship, and inspired by classical architecture, the design was successful enough to be used again at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. [...]
Events in Europe shouldn’t distract us from the global challenges we face May 20, 2012 AS City A.M. readers read this, Greece and the stability of the euro is probably at the forefront of their minds. I am concerned, too, but my perspective today is different. I am looking back across the globe from where I have just landed on day one of a City business mission to the Philippines, [...]
ROWLING AWARDED FREEDOM OF CITY May 8, 2012 JK Rowling, the author who penned the blockbuster Harry Potter novels, was awarded the Freedom of the City yesterday for her services to children’s literature. Rowling was presented with the distinction at Mansion House, the Lord Mayor’s official residence. “I am prouder than I can say to be given the Freedom of the City,” she [...]
Cameron calls on Ken to issue full tax return April 25, 2012 DAVID Cameron yesterday called on Ken Livingstone to publish the full details of his tax arrangements, saying Labour’s candidate “owes this country transparency about his taxes and about his company”. He also joked about Labour in-fighting over their candidate, adding: “I don’t much agree with what Lord Sugar has to say, but when he said Londoners [...]