Burger King UK prepares for whopper £600m London listing October 10, 2021 Fast-food chain Burger King is preparing to float on the London Stock Exchange for around £600m, according to reports. Burger King UK is understood to be in advanced discussions with potential advisers, including Investec and Numis bankers, as the company readies itself to list next year, according to The Times, which first reported the news. [...]
Queen’s Platinum Jubilee pageant will be bigger and bolder than Victoria’s in 1897 October 9, 2021 About 6,500 performers will turn the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee pageant into the “largest ever put on”, an organiser has revealed. V&A chairman Nicholas Coleridge, who is co-chairing the pageant, said the event on the final day of jubilee celebrations will top those held in 1897 for Queen Victoria. He added that the BBC predicts the [...]
London girls and women, here is all you need to know about the ‘walk me home’ service October 9, 2021 A phone service aimed at protecting women as they walk home has received the backing of the government. The idea was launched following the outcry caused by the murder of Sarah Everard. BT is said to be working on the emergency phone service, primarily to protect women as they walk home. Here is all you [...]
Revealed: The UK’s top 10 hottest property markets where house prices rise fastest October 9, 2021 City PM can reveal this morning what are the property hotspots across Britain at the moment, with Toxteth in Liverpool being identified as the number one market, with a 20 per cent increase in the average price tag for a home over the past year. Accrington in Lancashire, Retford in Nottinghamshire and Heywood in Greater [...]
It’s good to back in the Kafkaesque embrace of crypto conferences October 8, 2021 After 18 months of moaning about the sensory deprivation of Zoom calls, it was weirdly tiring to be in a place of humans, writes Monty Munford.
London needs some of Johnson’s ‘levelling up’ as inequality swells, says new report October 8, 2021 London is in need of some attention from Boris Johnson’s levelling up agenda, as the capital had the highest poverty rates even before Covid-19 – a pandemic which has widened existing inequalities across the board in the UK. Three in five, or 58 per cent, of people in poverty in inner London are in a [...]
Property of the Week: Lancer Square, a shiny new development on the edge of Kensington Gardens October 8, 2021 At the Kensington High Street end of Kensington Church Street, Lancer Square, which has been in development for many years, saw its first residents move in this week. The show apartment is a four-bedroom, five-bathroom enclave on the fourth floor overlooking the development’s sunken garden, and I think I can safely say that £15m doesn’t [...]
Drum roll: The world’s coolest neighbourhoods are… (yes, London is featured too) October 8, 2021 Nørrebro in Copenhagen has been revealed as the world’s coolest district, topping Time Out’s fourth annual World’s Coolest Neighbourhoods list. Cultural and culinary hotspots are leading the way as cities begin to emerge from the pandemic. “Nørrebro is a diverse district where history meets ultramodern architecture on the northern side of Copenhagen’s lakes, and it truly has [...]
Opinion-in-brief: Talking down to London won’t level up the country October 8, 2021 Boris Johnson’s conference speech may have been in his signature comedic style but many in London’s business community are concerned for their future today. A cumulative crisis in business conditions is threatening our recovery. The capital has seen a distressing number of corporate casualties and is now facing supply chains issues, labour shortages and inflation. [...]
FTSE 100 lifted slightly by travel stocks October 8, 2021 The FTSE 100 inched 0.3 per cent higher this morning, as travel stocks lifted the index after a hoard of destinations were taken off the red list. British-Airways owner ICAG, Whitbread and Ryanair gained between 0.5 per cent and 2.9 per cent. Though the FTSE 250 slipped 0.12 per cent dragged by fellow travel heavyweight TUI, which [...]