unemployment

Thursday news – with added entertainment.

Midweek news. Sorry it’s late: but maybe you can read it over your pint instead of on the train.

Unemployment has fallen in the capital whilst surging elsewhere in the country. But we also have the biggest wealth divide in the land. Hospitals in the news: Andy Burnham doesn’t rule out A & E closures, whilst threats to Kingston are proving a hot election …

Photo / dannybirchall Do you live in the borough of Lambeth? Do you find yourself in a daily struggle to control the bubbling rage that seeps from beneath your very pores, causing you to erupt in an incandescent torrent at the slightest provocation? You may …

Drunk in charge of an aeroplane: a United Airlines pilot has been arrested at Heathrow. London’s primary schools are simply running out of dosh and space. Rag trade riches to rags: the Luella Bartley label has gone bust. 2012: the army wants to play. A …

History graduate David Rowe has struck on an unorthodox approach to snag himself a job: he’s taken to donning a sandwich board over his pinstripe whistle and stalking along the length of Fleet Street, advertising his skills and experience with a tempting money-back guarantee: he’ll …

As unemployment continues to rise and Job Centres struggle to cope, it’s good to see the Mayor ploughing cash into getting 20,000 Londoners into work – for those who don’t fancy being the next Jamie Oliver. £23m has been cobbled together from London Development Agency …

MPs aren’t all bad: there has been a call for the relaxation of live music venue regulations. The Olympic Village has failed to find private sponsorship, so the taxpayer gets to keep it. A Somerset cider brandy manufacturer has been given the Freedom of the …

And if you’re unemployed, you’d best turn all the lights and hide (embarrassingly Londonist has actually done this, but usually only after we’ve been watching horror films home alone)(or because we don’t trust ourselves to be polite). The good burghers (actually project workers) of the …