Kidbrooke community wants to honour primary school teacher’s life despite feeling shocked and scaredFriends and neighbours of Sabina Nessa, a teacher who was found dead at the weekend, have described feeling scared and overwhelmed following her suspect…
Johnson’s staff knew he had a crush on me, says Jennifer Arcuri
US businesswoman gives evidence to London Assembly committee about friendship with mayorThe US businesswoman Jennifer Arcuri has claimed that officials in Boris Johnson’s office knew he had “crush” on her when he was mayor of London.Arcuri also claimed…
Post-pandemic shifts means Patch will take co-working to UK small towns and suburbs
It would be fair to say the pandemic has had enormous effects on the world of work, but it has come at a time when other factors were already ongoing. The decline of main-street shopping due to e-commerce has only been hastened. The shift to remote working has sky-rocketed. And people no longer want to […]
TrueLayer nabs $130M at a $1B+ valuation as open banking rises as a viable option to card networks
Open banking — a disruptive technology that seeks to bypass the dominance of card networks and other traditional financial rails by letting banks open their systems directly to developers (and new services) by way of APIs — continues to gain ground in the world of financial services. As a mark of that traction, a startup […]
Poem of the week: Thames by John Challis
Bobbing and jostling with assorted fragments, London’s unsettled river here loses and finds its human pastThamesAfter a day of keeping tugs and waste disposal barges,sailing racers, showboats and commuter clippers afloat,the Thames turns inwardly to fi…
London Underground’s Northern line extension comes into service
£1.1bn project adds nearly two miles of tunnel and two new stations – Nine Elms and Battersea Power StationThe first major addition to the London Underground this century comes into service on Monday, when the Northern line extension opens to carry pas…
Roland Mouret and Rejina Pyo defy convention at London fashion week
With diving models and female-directed Greek odysseys, this years event felt anything but ordinaryLondon fashion week is back, but not back to normal.Roland Mouret, whose regular pre-pandemic fashion week turn was a catwalk show at the National Theatre…
Greenwich Design District review – a lesson in how to make somewhere out of nowhere
Eight architects, 16 new buildings and one masterplan have converged in the shadow of London’s O2 to conjure up a neighbourhood for creative types that’s full of energy and charmThere once was an area in Singapore – Bugis – which, its trans nightlife b…
A friend in need: volunteers rush to help refugees feel at home in UK
Up to 50 people a day are signing up to offer help to Afghans who fled the TalibanThe UK’s largest refugee befriending scheme has closed applications in London following a meteoric rise in sign-ups amid the Afghanistan withdrawal.Until recently HostNat…
To mask or not to mask? Opinion split on London underground
Commuters explain their reasons for not covering upCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe “do as I say, not as I do” approach to political messaging was again displayed last week when Boris Johnson urged people to wear masks in…