Tracks and Treats my Halloween fiends! A belated BOO to you. If you've taken off your suspiciously pongy latex costume, removed the dodgy face paint and tucked into your candy haul (besides the squashy eggs, of course) you're probably ready for our BLOODY good October playlist. Talking of dodgy latex, St. Vincent is back with MASSEDUCTION, and it's all pink and sizzly-sounding and generally excellent, as you might expect at this point from the font of talent that is Annie...

NextEnergy Solar piles into Italy - Next Energy Solar Fund has made its first investments in Italy; eight operating solar plants with an installed capacity of 34.5MWp at a total cost of €131.9m. Five of the acquired plants are in the region of Puglia (total 21.5MWp) and three are in the region of Campania (total 13.0MWp). The equity value of the acquisition amounts to EUR55.0m. The portfolio's total outstanding long-term non-recourse debt facilities amount to EUR76.9m. The Italian portfolio value...

Staying ahead of your competitors is critical to success in the business world, and companies are forever looking for new ways to innovate, progress and grow. Team collaboration is a key driver in achieving this goal, especially for global businesses that operate in different time zones and use myriad devices to communicate and collaborate. Yet, still, they are asked to achieve more together, and work more efficiently. But how? The working world is ever-changing, don’t get left behind Generally speaking,...

London Executive Offices (LEO) conducted a UK survey recently with results finding that 64% of SME’s would choose London for their office location. Over half of the entrepreneurs and business executives surveyed over half said they strongly believe a London based office creates a better brand perception. It might seem old fashioned in an ever-changing digital world but people still look favourably towards a prestigious London address. Beth Hampson, Commercial Director at LEO, said: “Start-ups, in particular, can thrive in...

A truck mowed down cyclists and pedestrians on a riverside path in Manhattan before crashing into a schoolbus in what appears to be the first terrorist attack in Manhattan since 9/11. The attack described by New York city mayor Bill de Blasio as a “a particularly cowardly act of terror” occurred not far from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan. A suspect from Uzbekistan, named Sayfullo Saipov, 29, has lived in the US since 2010 and worked as an Uber driver. The...

With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month.    Fiume – Battersea His third restaurant in collaboration D&D London (following Sartoria and Radici), Francesco Mazzei will launch Fiume this month. Literally translated as ‘river’, Fiume is situated on the bank of the Thames within Circus West Village in the eagerly anticipated Battersea Power Station development. A modern Italian restaurant, Fiume – with it’s picturesque...

Unable to count on Conservative Party members, the electorate, her DUP allies, and now even her own MPs, Theresa May’s government is now so weakened that it’s being mocked by Tory backbenchers in the House of Commons. Philip Davies is the Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Shipley in West Yorkshire. You may have heard of him from the occasions he used his position to talk out private members’ bills on tackling domestic and sexual violence against women. - With...

We are in the 8th year of the celebrity shoe auction, now the biggest in the world, with more A-listers taking part in our small charity’s fundraiser than Comic Relief. How? Almost a decade ago when I founded Small Steps Project, helping children surviving off landfill sites, Celebrity endorsed charity events and paraphernalia were not quite as popular as they are today. Many celebrity events these days cost as much as they raise. The infamous Red Campaign by Bono raised...

David Davis has conceded that Brexit withdrawal agreement with EU will 'probably favour the union' in one key way - financially. Speaking in the House of Lords European Union Select Committee, the Brexit Secretary said: “In the infamous – or famous – words of the European Union nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. “The withdrawal agreement on balance will probably favour the union in terms of the things like money and so on. Whereas the future relationship will favour...