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UK music exports get £1.4m boost as 68 independent artists win global growth grants
Rising British music talent is set for a global push after 68 independent UK acts secured a combined £1.4 million in government-backed funding designed to grow international audiences, boostRead More... -
Emery Walker revealed: new exhibition explores the man behind the arts and crafts legend
A new exhibition opening this spring at Emery Walker’s House sets out to restore depth, warmth, and personality to one of Britain’s most influential yetRead More... -
London confirms St Patrick’s Day 2026 parade and Trafalgar Square festival
London will turn green once again next spring after the Mayor confirmed the capital’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations will take place on Sunday 15 March 2026, with aRead More... -
Masterpieces beyond the Museum: National Gallery brings life-size art to communities ccross the UK
World-famous paintings from the National Gallery are stepping out of Trafalgar Square and into everyday life, as part of a major touring project that will seeRead More... -
Award-winning Polish writer Mariusz Szczygieł brings ‘Not There’ essay collection on UK tour
Polish writer Mariusz Szczygieł, one of Central Europe’s most acclaimed literary reporters, will tour the UK later this month with a series of public events marking the English-language release...Read More... -
Professor Dame Carol Black GBE reappointed as Chair of the British Library for 2026–2027
The UK Secretary of State has confirmed the extension of Professor Dame Carol Black GBE as Chair of the British Library, continuing her leadership from 1 September 2026 to 31 August 2027.Read More... -
Climate, community and care: Soma Surovi Jannat’s landmark exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum
From spring through autumn 2026, the Ashmolean Museum presents 'Soma Surovi Jannat: Climate Culture Care', a powerful new exhibition that places climateRead More... -
Londoners on trial: 700 years of crime revealed in a free City archives exhibition
From medieval pickpockets to notorious Victorian figures, seven centuries of crime, punishment and public fascination are laid bare in a new exhibition atRead More... -
Lost for centuries, Henry VIII’s golden love pendant finds a home at the British Museum
A golden heart pendant once symbolizing the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon has finally been secured for permanent display at the BritishRead More... -
British High Commission hosts Caledonian Ball in Lahore to celebrate growing Scotland–Pakistan partnership
The British High Commission brought a touch of Scotland to Lahore this week as it hosted the Caledonian Ball at the historic Sir Ganga Ram Residence, celebratingRead More... -
300-year-old Rysbrack Marble putti blocked from export as UK scrambles to save national treasure
A three-century-old marble sculpture by renowned eighteenth-century sculptor Michael Rysbrack has been placed under a temporary UK export ban, giving BritishRead More... -
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Alex Salmond has respected Flybe's dispatch of new administrations from Scotland to London City air terminal, saying they would free business explorers from Heathrow and lessen British Airways cheating.
Flybe dispatched operations from London City on Monday with six courses joining the UK and Ireland to the capital's budgetary locale. Scotland is a key beneficiary with numerous every day administrations to Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness.
Salmond, who touched base on the new flight from Aberdeen, said additional associations with the heart of London would be an incredible support.
His remarks come just months after Willie Walsh, manager of BA's guardian organization IAG, sponsored Salmond's crusade for Scottish freedom, which raised the possibility of lower avionics charges. Salmond repeated his promise to scrap air traveler obligation in Scotland if sufficient controls over tariff are declined, saying that the move would help expand visitor using.

London has overwhelmed Hong Kong to turn into the most costly city for top of the line, new form property - which has now arrived at a world record at £2,000 for every square foot.
The expense of another form home, arranged in the well known center of the UK's capital, has climbed by 16pc throughout the most recent year, as indicated by a report by property bunch, CBRE.
The file has Hong Kong and New York in second and third place, with prime property costing £1,950 and £1,800 separately.
Jennet Siebritis, head of private examination at CBRE, refers to the extreme supply and interest lopsidedness in London as the fundamental component driving up costs in the city, which has expanded in populace by one million individuals since 2004.
Interestingly, the number of inhabitants in New York stayed static.
While supply was an issue 10 years prior, she proceeded with, London has now turned into a "worldwide" city pulling in worldwide organizations and their representatives, expanding the power for new form condo in the capital's center.

The Georgian House Hotel has provided for some of its rooms a gothic feel so visitors can imagine they are using a night in Hogwarts.
There are two "Wizard Chamber" rooms that accompany a four-publication, "Muggle-size" cot; elixir jugs; cauldrons and other themed extras.
The rooms are accessible as a component of a bundle that incorporates a "Muggle strolling visit" of London, which takes in taping areas and different places that roused J.k. Rowling.
It is additionally conceivable to consolidate a stay with a Harry Potter studio visit. Visitors can take a Harry Potter visit transport from Victoria Station to the Warner Brothers Studio Tour – The Making of Harry Potter on the edge of Watford.

Super-rich oligarchs are taking their inconceivable assets and putting them in the place of refuge of London property - with more than £600million used in the capital in the previous three years.
A mixture of conventional reasons joined with expanded terrorism and the flare-up of Ebola is said to be behind the sensational deluge of African cash to the capital.
While African purchasers represent 1.5 for every of transactions in the 'ultra prime' London market, they make up five for every penny of offers by quality - up from two for every penny. This is by commonly using in the middle of £15million and £25million on each one home.
The late Ebola pestilence and proceeded with terrorism from gatherings, for example, Boko Haram has brought about an increment in purchasers lately.
Beauchamp Estates, which offers some of London's most extravagant homes, today discharged a report on African purchasers in the capital.
The upmarket home office said the purchasers are originating from six nations - Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Gabon, Cameroon and Senegal.

Nigel Farage has guaranteed that David Cameron will be compelled to pay out an additional £1.7 billion into the EU plan before one month from now's over in spite of the legislature saying the additional interest was not adequate.
The Ukip pioneer's remarks, which he says is an impression of Britain's feebleness in Europe, will expand the weight on David Cameron after Thursday night's exposure that Britain has been requested to pay the cash in light of the fact that Britain's economy is improving contrasted and other EU economies.
A legislature source said the interest is "not worthy". It stayed misty on Friday morning whether the British government would challenge the EU request in the courts,an choice the Dutch government are purportedly investigating.
On Friday 17th October, Department Managers from Sainsbury’s, Haider Husnain and Roswald Cabral took three trolleys full of drinks and snacks to Acacia Pre-School, where they met the children and teachers at the school.
The children and teachers greeted them with smiles and were shocked by the amount of donations delivered to the school. The teachers then explained who their guests were and how Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp had donated snacks and drinks for them.

Only one day after the Scottish choice on autonomy, chairman of London Boris Johnson got his shot. Since the decentralization of force had been made a theme of dialog, he affirmed that it was about time for the administration of the United Kingdom to allow more prominent power to the city of London. Particularly in terms of the era and consumption of assessment salary, Johnson believes that the capital of Britain needs a greater say.
Margaret Hodge, Labor's part of parliament for the London body electorate of Barking, made it clear that she concurs with Johnson. In a sentiment piece distributed in the London Evening Standard, she watched that the leader of New York is permitted to use half of the city charge pay, while the Mayor of London can just keep 7%.
Johnson and Hodge have a point. Considering the steady fight to stay aware of opponent worldwide urban communities and the excessive nature of handling neighborhood issues, London is in frantic need of more self-governance.
Take the eventual fate of London's open transport, for instance. As indicated by London First, a not-revenue driven association speaking to different business stakeholders, monetary devolution would tremendously rearrange the procedure of financing base tasks, for example, Crossrail 2. Plans for the acknowledgment of Crossrail 1 another, somewhat underground line that will join Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west to Shenfield in the east through focal London, because of be finished in 2019—took just about 35 years to happen as intended, halfway as a result of the vulnerabilities over the subsidizing.

A huge number of specialists participated in road challenges through focal London today to highlight the requirent for pay to increment.
Open part specialists, including numerous who have been on strike this week, walked under the TUC pennant Britain Needs A Pay Rise to Hyde Park
Instructors, medical attendants, common servants and clinic cleaners were a percentage of the callings occurring in the gigantic walk which is required to complete at 4pm today.
The principle rally was held in London however dissents are additionally being held in Glasgow and Belfast today.
Birthing assistants went on strike without precedent for their history in challenge at the administration's dubious choice not to pay a proposed 1% expansion to all NHS staff.
Healing facility radiographers and jail officers will make strike move in the nearing week over the same dispute.the TUC said individuals are confronting the greatest press on their salaries since Victorian times, including that normal wages have fallen by £50 a week in genuine terms since 2008.

The biggest ever ship to enter the River Thames has arrived.
The 397m (1,300ft) long, 56m (180ft) wide ship can convey up to 15,500 holders and is the second biggest holder send on the planet.
Called Edith Maersk, it docked at 06:00 BST at London Gateway having cruised from the Far East. It is because of situated cruise again later.
It is the greatest boat to stop at the profound water dock, which opened a year ago after a £1.5bn manufacture.

A monstrous surge in migration is driving the requirement for no less than 42,000 new homes a year to be inherent London, a report cautioned yesterday.
A dooming dossier blamed London Mayor Boris Johnson for 'totally distorting' the purpose behind the capital's constantly climbing populace – a pattern which will prompt uncommon lodging advancement.
In any case an anticipated increment of a million nonnatives through the following 15 years must be matched by the same number of Londoners being "determined" out of the city, or the eager target will be destined to disappointment on the grounds that there will even now be excessively few homes, it cautioned.
Somewhere around 1991 and 2011, the UK-conceived populace of London was static at 5.2million while remote conceived inhabitants multiplied to 3million – an aggregate populace of around 8.2million.
It is anticipated to increment to 10million by 2029, overwhelmingly determined by the entry of 1.1million foreigners and births to existing and future outside families, says the report.in 2012, stand out third of births were to folks who were both UK-conceived, it said.


