When you’ve paid out a small fortune for a weekend break you can be forgiven for going budget on the airport hotel, but when you turn up to be welcomed by a service station bunker, it can be a sure-fire way to ruin the first leg of your trip. I ...
The debate over Heathrow expansion continues to be bitterly contested by Gatwick Airport despite a third runway being recommended by the Airports Commission in 2015. Gatwick, it seems, is still missing a trick. For all the environmental and logistical benefits of building a new runway in Sussex, the fundamental problem ...
London's new mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a 24-hour tube service will begin on Central and Victoria lines from 19 August, with Piccadilly, Jubilee and Northern lines to follow in the autumn. The coup comes almost exactly a year to the date that Boris Johnson tried to launch the 'night tube' ...
Have you ever flown in to Gatwick on a clear day and felt rather more upbeat at the prospect of returning to the UK than you might flying over, let’s say, the built-up residential sprawl that lays beneath the approach to Heathrow or City? Well, that’s because this small corner ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It has been claimed by Greenpeace that the new Hinkley power station will be the most expensive object on Earth. The environmental group believes the total cost of the controversial project will cost up to a colossal £24bn, eighteen time more the world’s tallest building, ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Another Tory MP has been forced out as a patron of their chosen charity for supporting the ESA cuts. Now supremely wealthy Zac Goldsmth, and candidate for London Mayor, has been booted out of Richmond AID after he backed cutting £30 a week for people ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor It was Corbyn’s comeback from long-term injury, the awkward left-winger had an open goal over the junior doctors’ strike, he flicked the ball into the air, with an intricate overhead kick he scored, and ran into the cheering crowd. Corbyn said, “Would you agree that ...
By Abeer Sharma Last Thursday evening the Evening Standard held hustings for the Conservative candidates running to be their party’s chosen one for next year’s Mayor of London election- Andrew Boff, Zac Goldsmith MP, Stephen Greenhalgh and Syed Kamall MEP. Truth be told, the lack of big names compared to ...
By Patrick Vernon London’s position as the economic and cultural heart of the UK means that it continues to be a desirable place to buy property for investors elsewhere in the country and, indeed, the world. Whether it’s the lure of leisure or the pull of employment, there are many ...