Window Pane Falls From Top Of Canary Wharf Tower
HSBC Tower sheds its skin.
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Monday news. This may be the first time ever that Dusty Springfield, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Duchess of Cornwall have featured in the same post.
Paris Woos HSBC Over Office Move
Ooh lala! HSBC in meetings with French officials over domicile.
Boris Tells Bloomberg: ‘Hands Off Barclays’
Two mayors go to war over bank.
Boris Begs HSBC To Stay
As HSBC apparently mull moving their HQ to Hong Kong, how much influence does the Mayor really have over financial megacorps?
Boris Urges Bankers To Think Of The Children
Photo by /Sizemore/ The mayor stepped up to the plate again yesterday over banking bonuses when he made a plea for workers in the financial sector to donate their Christmas windfalls to after-school clubs and helping disadvantaged children. A laudable request, though Boris Johnson’s volte …
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Photo / Homemade Student art comes to Kennington Tube station. Plans for the 2012 triathlon and marathon swim released. Thought the banks were humbled? Think again: HSBC threatens to quit London if the Government breaks up big banks. MI6 worker sentenced for attempting to sell …
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Is the HSBC playing the property market with its HQ? The recession has triggered City brain drain. London’s first £100m price-tagged house is on the market. New G20 footage has appeared on YouTube showing police apparently striking a woman protestor. Central London’s last parking meters: …
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Accessibility issues? Help Boris pinpoint them for 2012. A former Albanian torturer living in West London under false pretences is being lined up for extradition. A scheme to bring churches back to the centre of the community was launched at St.-Martin-in-the-Fields today. Work for a …
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Things are virtually back to ‘normal’ at Heathrow after a glitch in the air traffic control system caused flight chaos. Al Gore and Gwynnie have indulged in a very expensive lunch in London to raise funds for Obama. Elsewhere in the capital, descendants of Shackleton …
The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bank, Even
If you spot a gaggle of wedding-suited lads and ladettes marching Canary Wharf way this afternoon, fear not: it’s no open casting call for hilarious new Steve Martin – Diane Keaton vehicle Father Of The Bride 3: Groomsday, but it is in fact a protest …
