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The "first major residential development in the Square Mile for 30 years" (according to the developer, Heron International) is now under construction on the site of Milton Court, reports Building Design. more ›

The City of London has a new tallest building. The Heron Tower, at 110 Bishopsgate, has reportedly surpassed Tower 42 to become the loftiest in the Square Mile. When it tops out, presumably in just a matter of weeks, the roof will stand at 202.5 metres, compared with the 183 metres of Tower 42. And once it is crowned with a lance-like spire, Heron will soar to 246 metres, beating the height of even 1 Canada Square. more ›

Another unfair blow to an already persecuted group? Or a victory for common decency and cleaner streets? Smokers in the City who flick their cigarette butts onto the floor could be fined £80 for the privilege of using the streets as their personal ashtray. A cadre of ten environmental officers will prowl the highways and byways of the Square Mile, doling out spot-fines to anybody caught shucking their ends. Ominously, these spotters will be empowered to slap a £1,000 fine on anybody caught "giving false information"; without a surveillance operation worthy of the Stasi, how will they know? Expect an increase in City puffers answering to the soubrique "Seymour Butts". more ›

Cocaine use is on the up in the City, says a charity that works with addicts, and it's all because bankers are stressed out about losing their jobs. The poor babies. It's hardly news, really -- coke and the Square Mile go together like "Christmas" and "bonus"; that soft-headed City Boy in the not-at-all lamented London Paper used his column to spell out 1,001 euphemisms for the drug. Is the rest of the population, whose redundancy cheques aren't usually troubled by more than a couple of zeros, supposed to feel sorry for the banking classes? Perhaps they can console themselves by remembering that, after a year of penance and mea-culpas, the days of huge bonuses are already back. more ›

What brings a neighbourhood to life is ultimately the people. In this tiny corner of what is still officially Islington, somewhere between Dalston and Newington Green, it's a girl, that is making all the difference at the delectable and bustling local café -Tina, we salute you. more ›

Where? Sun-shy network of alleys between Cornhill and Lombard Street. more ›

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have seized plum media opportunities to comment on something only marginally related to their sphere of expertise. Just because that Jesus bloke allegedly went into the temple and "overthrew the tables of the moneychangers" it doesn't mean that the Church of England is entitled to weigh in and call city traders "bank robbers and asset strippers" and imply that their business is unwholesome. more ›

Nearly 100 days into his reign, not only has the new mayor failed to destroy the city as many predicted, he's surprised everyone by tying his flag to the mast of American presidential hopeful Barack Obama, seizing upon the presumptive Democratic nominee's mixed-race heritage as the key to empowering black people across the world. more ›

So are the good times over? Not if you're a City banker. Despite melodramatic predictions of a Square Mile massacre, the new economic realities have yet to dawn: in 2008, so far £13.2bn has been awarded in bonuses - a notch down from the £13.3bn doled out at this stage last year, but still a fair slice of cash. more ›

While demolition of the existing 1960s block is due to be completed early next year, the developer, Land Securities, has stated that they will wait to secure a tenant before construction begins on what is arguably the least popular of London's glut of new Square Mile skyscrapers. more ›

The lean spell that every economist and his pet abacus is predicting means that offices are finding it hard to attract tenants. A report by Savills reveals that "demand in the City of London office market has reduced significantly" over the past few months as would-be buyers struggle to raise funds in a nervous financial climate. If the trend continues, all those glittering paeans to our flexed financial muscle, commissioned and approved during the last few boom years, could end up shimmering relics of a more moneyed era. more ›

• 2012 "Friend-ship" scheme shelved before it sets sail.
• Is the sun setting on the Square Mile?
• Grape of wrath: Man slips on squashed fruit and sues M&S for "loss of confidence". We think he's got more chance of turning a profit by sending the video in to You've Been Framed.
• Stingy NHS won't cough up money for grandmother's sight-saving operation.
• Costs for parking a plane at Heathrow set to rise. Naturally, passengers will be the ones forced to fork out.
• Family Unvalues: Lack of parental guidance to blame for teen crime, reckons Ken.

What are you up to this weekend? If the answer isn’t “I’m going poking round lots of quirky London buildings, enjoying Open House for all I‘m worth and whooping with delight at all the random facts I glean” then we’ve just lost a little respect for you. more ›

Like an invisible web of impossibly magic pockets of the internet hovering in London’s heavens, weird and wonderful WiFi proliferates enabling us tech-savvy, laptop bearing citizens to maintain our social networking and blog addictions pretty much 24/7. Unsurprising news, then, that wireless networks in London have almost trebled in the last year. We’re outstripping New York and Paris with the rate of growth of our WiFi hotzone with public access hot spots up by... more ›

Back to St Paul’s again this week. The modern image was taken by Joao Mario along Bankside last week; the other is 100 years old. more ›

London's running schedule is hotting up next month. Alongside the capital's tussle with Liverpool and Glasgow on the morning of Sunday 3 June, workers in The City and Docklands have their own chances to nip out, buy some emergency trainers and get some kilometres under their belts (which might be straining if they've been investing their inflated xmas bonuses in too much rich food and Krug). more ›

The mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg (yes, Bloomberg as in that media conglomerate), is in London at the moment to look in greater detail at why so many international firms are moving their M&A activity and their currency trading to our very own City - away from his home turf. US firms - especially the ones that earn fat fees from such business - aren’t happy about the shift, with consultants McKinsey having released a report which warns that the US could lose “4 to 7 percent of the global financial services market over the next five years”. Four to seven per cent of trillions is, um, a lot, so it’s understandable that Bloomberg is worried. more ›

First went the bowler hats. Then the filofax. Now the very demographic of the Square Mile is said to be changing. more ›

There's a lot of WiFi buzz going on at the moment. more ›

No more; and by a sleep to say we end more ›

Sorry we're late. We got held up on the Tube (one of our servers went down). more ›

The Waterloo & City line is to be closed for as long as five months from next April so that "urgent repair" work can be undertaken. "Travel hell" hardly begins to cover it; the odd little W&C line, known to its "fans" as "The Drain" relieves a terrific amount of pressure on the Underground system. If closed, the thousands of commuters pouring in from the southern suburbs and attempting to get to the Square Mile will have a miserable time. Their options are: more ›

The news today that the Corporation of London is rapidly running out of cash seems to effect a number of facets of London life. more ›