Barking FC play their home games at their stadium at Mayesbrook Park, Lodge Ave, Barking, Dagenham RM8 2JR. The club are also known as “The Blues” and have a colourful history which contains many different versions of the club – including Barking Woodville and Barking Institute. Barking played at Vicarage Field until 1973 when they moved to Mayesbrook Park as Vicarage Field was earmarked to become a shopping centre. The current incarnation of the Blues began in 2007. Peter Webster...

By Wyndham Hacket Pain  Stories about the Second World War are so ingrained in our minds and daily practice that it can seem as if there is nothing to add to the discourse of this period. As a result, it is always a pleasure for a story to separate itself from the pantheon of films, books, and tales that have tried to cover the period before and perhaps even more exciting when someone tries to challenge the preconceptions we have about...

Sadiq Khan has unveiled a new London Curriculum Family Explorer Trails specially designed for families to visit and learn about some of the most fascinating parts of the capital. With the summer holidays well underway families from across the country will be making trips to the capital to explore all it has to offer. And for those who want to turn their trip into a more knowledgeable affair new explorer trails have been announced with City of London, Knowledge Quarter, Creative Quarter...

Land Securities pre-lets 21 Moorfields to Deutsche Bank - Land Securities and Deutsche Bank have exchanged a pre-let agreement for the bank's new London headquarters at 21 Moorfields, EC2 on a 25 year lease.  The agreement is conditional on planning permission. Landsec has worked closely with Deutsche Bank on the design of a 564,000 sq ft building. The bank will retain flexibility over the amount of space it will occupy in the new building and has committed to take a...

LXi REIT fully invested looks to gear up - The Board of LXi REIT has announced that the company has now fully deployed the net proceeds of its GBP138 million IPO since listing on 27 February 2017. They are also in solicitors' hands on additional acquisitions which will fully absorb the GBP55 million debt finance to be drawn under its Scottish Widows 12-year loan facility in the coming weeks. The headline statistics for the acquired assets are: Attractive average net initial...

The job drain in the financial sector is likely to start before Brexit negotiations conclude because banks are planning for a worst-case scenario. Britain's finance industry could lose up to 40,000 investment banking jobs in the next few years unless it strikes a softer deal on its departure from the European Union. But many jobs could be lost before any deal is struck. According to a new report by consultancy firm Oliver Wyman banks are currently planning for a worst-case...

Dunkirk is almost a silent film. Dunkirk is a film that is a master class in the art of ‘show it, don’t say it’. Dunkirk, demands that you feel like you are on the front line with the soldiers. The audience is used as another stranded Tommy on the beach, forming an orderly queue, waiting to be rescued. Dunkirk is an unapologetically British film. There isn’t an ancillary, and unnecessary, tale of love and romance to "cheer up", and degrade...

The earth could get hotter by up to 4.9 degrees Celsius by the end of the century - three times the target set by the 2016 Paris agreement on climate change. Experts predict global temperatures to hit 'tipping point' by 2100 as the Earth has a nine in ten chance of getting between 2 and 4.9 degrees C hotter. This extra temperature will herald longer heatwaves, greater droughts and, in the tropics, reduced crop yield and threaten all coral reefs....

Air pollution kill an extra 260,000 by the end of the century if climate change goes untackled, a study warned. Global warming will alter the concentrations of air pollutants causing the premature deaths of 60,000 by 2030 and 260,000 deaths by 2100. The smog will affect all regions except Africa. This is on top of the millions globally who die from the effects of smog from traffic, factories, power stations and dust. Scientists warn higher temperatures will speed up the...