Organisers pitch the December 2025 summit in London as the industry’s moment to translate COP30 outcomes into financing, joint ventures and standardised ESG practice, with C‑suite speakers, government roundtables and new formats designed to speed project delivery and investor commitments. Resourcing Tomorrow bills itself as London’s premier mining summit and,…

The mayor’s team points to falls in knife injuries, homicides and lethal gun discharges since 2016, but opponents and bereaved families say headline percentages mask local spikes, dataset caveats and volatile year‑on‑year changes. A row has erupted over the Mayor of London’s assertion that knife crime in the capital has…

Activists protested outside a London communications consultancy to highlight the reputational risks for agencies and venues advising or hosting Chick‑fil‑A as the US fast‑food chain pushes into the UK amid lingering concerns over its past charitable giving and ties to groups deemed hostile to LGBT+ equality. The Peter Tatchell Foundation…

The Russian embassy in London has accused Britain and some European capitals of seeking to sabotage a proposed Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, a charge London rejects as Moscow frames the meeting as a chance for peace while Western officials insist any deal must preserve Ukraine’s sovereignty.…

Shareholders and proxy advisers are split after Third Point-appointed directors pushed to transfer roughly £500m of TPIL capital into Malibu Life Reinsurance in the Cayman Islands, testing whether July’s FCA listing-rule overhaul has weakened minority protections on related‑party deals. Dan Loeb’s latest manoeuvre to reconfigure Third Point Investors Limited into…

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is pushing measures to steer household savings into equities after the FTSE 100 briefly hit 9,000, arguing it could boost long‑term returns and deepen UK capital markets — but major US banks and valuation gauges warn stretched markets and seasonal risks could trigger a sizeable pullback. Britain’s…

Natural England’s two‑year, capital‑only Species Recovery Programme is funding a range of projects — from black grouse translocations and reptile tunnels to orchid and invertebrate reintroductions — highlighting what capital investment can deliver and where long‑term stewardship and revenue funding remain crucial. According to the Evening Standard, Natural England’s Species…

High Speed 1 transformed cross‑Channel travel by pairing bold civil engineering — extensive tunnelling, viaducts and restored Victorian architecture at St Pancras — with a complex ownership and concession model that has influenced regeneration, passenger numbers and long‑term stewardship of the route. High Speed 1 (HS1) transformed the physical and…

The Sun Wharf will open on 16 September 2025 at 48–50 Tooley Street, reclaiming historic brick railway arches once home to wharves and the London Dungeon and sitting above layers of industrial and prehistoric remains. A new Wetherspoon pub, The Sun Wharf, is due to open on 16 September 2025…

New research and official house‑price data indicate parents are increasingly prepared to pay a significant premium — around 15% or roughly £45,000 on a typical UK home — to secure places in Ofsted‑rated good state schools, a shift driven in part by the government’s 2025 removal of the VAT exemption…

Critics say headlines about ‘perks’ miss the real issue: a costly, legally constrained asylum system that has left hotels, public services and taxpayers footing the bill — and that advocates of tougher policy want caps, clearer funding lines and tighter procurement to stop the squeeze on domestic services. Labour’s asylum…

Roger K. Burton, mod collector and founder of London’s Horse Hospital and the Contemporary Wardrobe Collection, has died from acute myeloid leukaemia aged 76. He rescued a derelict Georgian stable in Bloomsbury to create a long‑running hub for punk, experimental film and underground fashion, and continued curatorial work until shortly…