New Home Office figures up to June 2025 show 32,059 asylum seekers in hotel accommodation across 122 local authorities, with demand highly concentrated in a small number of areas as the Bell Hotel injunction reshapes how councils can place residents and policymakers weigh longer-term housing options. New data released today…

Honest Burgers is running a London-wide National Burger Day promotion across more than 30 branches, offering 1,000 free burgers for Honest Insiders loyalty programme sign-ups and a 20% discount, as part of a broader city-wide promotional wave from multiple chains. Honest Burgers is turning National Burger Day into a city-wide…

The RMT union has unveiled seven days of rolling strikes on the Tube and the DLR from 5 September, starting at the Ruislip depot, with ongoing negotiations over pay, fatigue management and rostering.London is braced for a week of industrial action that could cripple travel across the capital. The plan…

The Yorkshire indie quartet unveil a year-end, old-school 30-date UK tour—Everything Must Change!—with The Jacques supporting, a string of venues through December, and a high-profile Steel Yard homecoming at Sheffield’s Kelham Island in 2026. The Sherlocks have unveiled a substantial homecoming for late 2025, returning to their roots with what…

London faces an autumn of industrial action as rolling seven-day strikes by the RMT threaten to disrupt parts of the Underground, with pay, fatigue management and rostering at the centre of talks and potential daily costs reaching £90 million.Britain is bracing for an autumn of discontent as the country’s transport…

The FTSE 100 rose above 9,300 as PMI data pointed to renewed momentum and July borrowing narrowed, but analysts warn that structural weaknesses, rising gilt yields and looming productivity downgrades keep the UK economy on fragile footing ahead of autumn forecasts. The latest activity on the UK’s stock market and…

London Underground workers plan a seven-day strike in September, a development in a broader autumn wave of public-service disruption that also involves NHS, waste and local authorities as talks hinge on pay, rostering and working conditions. Britain is bracing for an autumn of discontent as essential services across the country…

Irys raises $10 million in a Series A led by CoinFund, bringing total funding to $20 million and fast-tracking a datachain that embeds licensing, monetisation and access controls directly into data assets for AI. Irys, the world’s first programmable datachain, unveiled a $10 million Series A on August 21, 2025,…

A High Court injunction blocking the Bell Hotel in Epping as asylum accommodation triggers renewed demonstrations in several cities, as official data show more than 32,000 asylum seekers housed in hotels and pressure to end hotel use by 2029. A fresh wave of protests outside hotels used to shelter asylum…

A trial by Radii Devices and the University of Southampton finds data-driven socket design matches clinician-made comfort while cutting fittings from around four to two, potentially easing NHS waiting lists. A data-driven software approach to designing prosthetic sockets could significantly ease NHS waiting lists for below-knee prosthetics, according to a…

London’s council estates reveal a social fabric stitched by daily acts of care—from neighbours babysitting to block-wide celebrations—where faith groups and council-backed events turn everyday rituals into a citywide sense of belonging. On London’s council estates, community life is built less by grand schemes than by everyday rituals: neighbours babysitting…

A week of rolling RMT walkouts in London threatens fan travel this September just as Liverpool prepare to trigger Jeremie Frimpong’s €35m release clause — a transfer complicated by a hamstring concern and Conor Bradley’s fitness timeline, while political debate over transport resilience intensifies. The capital’s transport network is again…