Olympic Jobs Legacy Misses Target
Projects designed to help London’s unemployed not going so well.
Projects designed to help London’s unemployed not going so well.
Voters rank the economy above all other issues, so we look at things the Mayor can influence.
Front-loaded cuts mean losses of some frontline jobs.
New scheme launched to help local residents compete for jobs in western Europe’s tallest building.
Over 100,000 jobs will be created by the 2012 Games.
“I see you’re starting a career. Would you like help with that?”
The low, bunker-like Royal Mail sorting centre in Nine Elms, and another at Twelvetrees Crescent (what is it with the post office and dendronumerology?) in Bow Locks, could be axed as part of the postal service’s “modernising” agenda — yes, the same one that resulted …
Photo / bltphoto From January, the Evening Standard will drop its midday edition, switching instead to a single, final West End edition which will hit newstands at 2pm. The culling of the current two-paper policy will, editor Geordie Greig hopes, allow the Standard to ensure …
Image / Jon Smalldon Barely three years after it began, London’s afternoon freesheet war has ended: in a not unsurprising move, Associated Newspapers have announced that they are to close the London Lite. Launched in 2006 as a spoiler to News International’s The London Paper, …
Sizing up the Olympics as your chance to shine in a non-athletic way? Help is at hand if you’re career minded enough to be thinking ahead. A new website Podium Skills London offers information on the key industries involved in 2012 and ‘employment forecasts’ indicating …
Image / Haemmboerger Has the harsh economic climate driven philosopher and School of Life founder Alain de Botton to a gig at the grubby coalface of customer service? Not quite: according to The Observer, he’s taken a job at Terminal 5 in order to research …