Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered Labour’s first Budget in 14 years, announcing £40bn of tax rises, Central London Alliance comments
Podcast: New year, new you – how to get a new job in 2017 January 25, 2017 If you don't love Mondays, it's time to get a new job, says James Reed, the chairman of Reed.co.uk, Europe's largest recruiter. How can you give your career the best chance in 2017? When is it time to move on? What are the biggest CV no-nos? Reed gives his tips. You can subscribe to City [...]
Check out the Premier League’s delicious new sponsor January 24, 2017 The Premier League has a new sponsor, and it's sweeter than your average: Cadbury. The chocolate brand has signed a three-year partnership with the league, kicking off from the start of the 2017/18 season. The pair will create a "bespoke" element of the Health for Life community programme, focused on helping 600,000 school children, with [...]
Do you travel with the UK’s worst train company? January 24, 2017 It's official: Southern is the UK's worst train company, according to a new study. The National Rail Passenger Survey, conducted during Autumn last year, found passengers using Southern train services were the UK's most miserable, with 19 per cent saying they were dissatisfied. Just 65 per cent said they were satisfied – the lowest of [...]
Expect more travel delays tomorrow as London is swathed in freezing fog again January 23, 2017 It looks like London is in for more transport misery, after the Met Office issued a yellow warning of fog for tomorrow morning. Dozens of flights were cancelled at airports including Heathrow and London City today as freezing fog enveloped the capital. This evening the Met Office said areas of freezing fog, some of which will [...]
Commercial rental growth on the UK’s most exclusive shopping streets has fallen January 23, 2017 Commercial rents in London's most exclusive areas slowed to its lowest in 2016 in the final quarter of the year, new figures have shown. Rental values on so-called prime commercial property fell to 0.4 per cent between October and December, the lowest quarterly growth in a year. During the full year rents increased 3.7 per cent. [...]
Revealed: How London’s super-rich commute (spoiler: there isn’t a helicopter in sight) January 23, 2017 Alright, so commuting wasn't covered in Stephen R Covey's classic "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" – but if you want to live life more like London's elite executives, it turns out you should ditch the chopper and walk instead. Research by ultra-upmarket estate agent Wetherell found 65 per cent of the capital's "richest" executives [...]
Bovis shares have risen on hopes Berkeley will buy it January 23, 2017 Shares in housebuilder Bovis rose in morning trading after its biggest shareholders suggested a takeover by a rival. Shares were up 3.6 per cent at 826p in mid-morning trading after it emerged this weekend that Schroders had written to rival Berkeley Group to propose an all-share merger. The suggestion follows a shaky patch for Bovis, which [...]
People are leaving floral tributes to Southern rail at train stations January 23, 2017 Gone but not forgotten – the tolerance of Southern Rail users. As yet another day of strikes begins on Southern rail, some commuters appear to have taken it to heart, after dozens of "tributes" to the franchise began to appear at London Bridge and other stations As with any dearly departed friend, the tributes included [...]
