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| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.05.2025 | Clowns vs the council: Inside the regulation spat threatening Covent Garden’s street performers | As Covent Garden’s street performers celebrate 50 years of clowning on the cobbles, Anna Moloney asks why they’re worried about their future Every morning in Covent Garden at 9:30am, street performers from far and wide draw lots in a bid to... |
| 29.04.2025 | Oxford Street pedestrianisation: Don’t let local objections ruin the nation’s high street | Pedestrianising Oxford Street will unlock benefits for the whole country. We can’t let local politics derail it, writes Ben Johnson Oxford Street generates £25bn a year – one per cent of the UK’s entire economic output – from just 1.2 miles... |
| 01.04.2025 | Westminster's Pay Disparity: A Tale of Two Councils | In the heart of London, Westminster City Council stands tall, but not without controversy. It has topped the ‘town hall rich list’ with 73 staff members earning over £100,000. This figure is more than just a number; it reflects a growing di... |
| 01.04.2025 | The Grand Opening of The Whiteley Ushers In A New Era For Queensway | LONDON, April 1, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Whiteley, London's first department store, has been reimagined as a landmark residential and hospitality destination. Marking the pinnacle of its eight-year transformation, councillors, residents, s... |
| 31.03.2025 | Council pay: Westminster tops ‘town hall rich list’ with 73 staff on over £100k | Westminster City Council has topped a national ‘town hall rich list’ with 73 staff rewarded with over £100,000 last year. The central London borough council also had the most employees nationwide – at eight – receiving more than £200,000 in... |
| 27.01.2025 | Zencity Buys Commonplace | Zencity, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based provider of a platform for community trust, acquired Commonplace, a UK-based company which specializes in community engagement with a special focus on zoning and planning. The amount of the deal was not dis... |
| 15.05.2024 | Inactivity, productivity and jobs: London’s economic disparities revealed in five graphs | London is the powerhouse of the UK economy, responsible for a quarter of the country’s total output and generating around 40 per cent of Treasury tax receipts. Within the capital, however, there are considerable differences in economic perf... |
| 05.04.2024 | Defeat predicted for Rishi Sunak-led Conservative Party in UK polls: Survey | Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party, which has been in power in the United Kingdom (UK) for nearly 15 years, is likely to be defeated in a “tidal wave” by the Labour Party in elections. This may be due to the public's growing di... |
| 15.11.2021 | UK Court Hands Down Suspended Jail Sentence to eBay Seller of Pirate IPTV Boxes | Online piracy exists in many shapes and forms. Torrent sites were dominant a decade ago, but these have long been eclipsed by streaming portals. In addition to pirate streaming sites that can be accessed through web browsers, dedicated stre... |
| 22.08.2021 | I visited London’s infamous Mound – an $8 million fake hill that’s being called the city’s worst attraction | The structure has been criticized as a drain on taxpayers’ money. Insider The Marble Arch Mound opened in July and was intended to attract people to London’s retail center. The project’s boss quit after costs spiralled to $US8.25 ($AU11) mi... |
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