P&O Ferries owner to benefit from at least £50m of UK freeport scheme | P&O Ferries

P&O Ferries owner to benefit from at least £50m of UK freeport scheme | P&O Ferries

The Dubai-based owner of P&O Ferries is expected to benefit from at least £50m of UK taxpayer support as part of the government’s freeport programme, raising questions over its role in the... Read more »
Plans Approved for Student’s Accommodation Scheme in West London

Plans Approved for Student’s Accommodation Scheme in West London

Dominvs Group has been given a go-ahead to develop a 713-bed Student’s Accommodation Scheme in West London, particularly at the former magistrate’s court site in Hammersmith. The development, designed by architect Rogers... Read more »
Ukraine war: 21 Ukrainian children arrive in UK for life-saving treatment, as ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme rolls out | UK News

Ukraine war: 21 Ukrainian children arrive in UK for life-saving treatment, as ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme rolls out | UK News

Twenty-one Ukrainian children suffering from cancer have arrived in the UK to receive life-saving care – as Britons are being urged to open their homes to people fleeing the war. The children... Read more »
London dealers jailed for supplying Class A drugs into Hampshire town in ‘county lines’ scheme

London dealers jailed for supplying Class A drugs into Hampshire town in ‘county lines’ scheme

Two London dealers have been jailed for a total of nine years after they supplied Class A drugs from the capital into a Hampshire town in a suspected county lines scheme. According... Read more »
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Croydon plans to cut council tax support scheme and poor locals could be hit

Drastic cuts to council tax support in Croydon will plunge thousands “further into poverty,” activists have claimed. More than 15,000 people who currently receive financial support will be affected by the changes.... Read more »
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Covid latest news: Omicron sub-variant ‘spreads faster’, as ex-minister slams ‘cack-handed’ loans scheme

Health secretary Sajid Javid said we must ‘learn to live with’ Covid An ex-minister who resigned at the dispatch box over the government’s “cack-handed” failure in its approach to Covid-19 business loans... Read more »
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Waltham Forest praised for retrofit scheme to combat CO2 emissions

The film Don’t Look Up charts the effort of scientists to alert politicians to the pending threat of an asteroid hitting the earth. The response is a mixture of denial and ineptitude... Read more »
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TfL’s cycle scheme has record year with 11 million hires – South London News

By Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter Last year was the best on record for TfL’s Santander cycle hire scheme with almost 11 million hires and more than one million individual users. Londoners... Read more »
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Major new deal agreed for BTR scheme in North Acton…

The latest ‘landmark’ Build to Rent (BTR) development in London is set to be delivered after Telford Homes and Realstar announced the completion of a £91 million forward-funding arrangement to create a... Read more »
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International gang scams £10m from coronavirus business support scheme and stole £60m through fake companies

Two international fraudsters who ran a complex £70 million money-laundering scheme have received one of the largest sentences for the crime in the UK. Artem Terzyan, 38, from Russia and Deivis Grochiatskij,... Read more »