12 September 2023
Property Week
West End deals uptick hailed as sign of a market recovery
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6 September 2023
London Business Matters
London Business Matters - A vote for the future prosperity of St James's by Ros Morgan
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16 August 2023
St James’s Conservation Trust
St James's Conservation Trust - A Review of 2022
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26 July 2023
Evening Standard
London bosses ramp up calls for Jeremy Hunt to axe ‘tourist tax’ making Paris, Madrid and Milan ‘winners’
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6 July 2023
Evening Standard
Scrap the tourist tax to reinstate London as a global culture capital
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29 June 2023
Secret London
Piccadilly Circus Has Been Transformed Into An Illuminated Flower Garden For Two Days Only
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22 June 2023
Evening Standard
Art After Dark returns to the West End this June and the line-up is incredible
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31 May 2023
Evening Standard
What are the new flags around Piccadilly Circus? Art of London unveils new colourful flags
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31 May 2023
London Post
ART OF LONDON UNVEILS PUBLIC ART DISPLAY IN PICCADILLY
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26 May 2023
Evening Standard
Tourism to London bounces back… ‘but we still need VAT-free shopping’
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8 May 2023
CoStar
King Charles III’s Coronation Gives Hoteliers Something To Smile About
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29 April 2023
Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Beckham and Marks & Spencer join more than 130 businesses demanding the end of the hated 'tourist tax'
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19 April 2023
Retail & Leisure International
Heart of London Launches Plan For The West End’s Evening and Night-Time Economy
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13 April 2023
The Guardian
Masterpieces and margaritas: National Portrait Gallery to open new bar as part of revamp
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13 April 2023
Comply Advantage
Westminster Council Launches New Initiative to Clamp Down on Properties with Unclear Ownership Structures
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12 April 2023
Retail and Leisure International
Heart of London Launches Plan For The West End’s Evening and Night-Time Economy
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9 April 2023
Mayfair Times
Ros Morgan, chief executive of Heart of London Business Alliance, tells how the consortium is boosting commerce and culture in the West End
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6 April 2023
Evening Standard
Action plan launched to boost West End night-time economy
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5 April 2023
Evening Standard
Later shop and cafe openings urged to revive night economy
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22 March 2023
Evening Standard
West End lit up with Ramadan lights for first time
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22 March 2023
Eastern Eye
Ramadan Lights’ street illuminations in Piccadilly Circus mark the start of holy month
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21 March 2023
Creative Boom
Art After Dark: Accessing London's West End art scene in the evenings
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14 March 2023
Property Week
Heart of London Business Alliance’s Ros Morgan gives her 10 reasons to be happy three years on from Covid
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3 March 2023
London Post
Art of London launches free late-night culture programme
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1 February 2023
Rail Business Daily
Elizabeth line clocks more than 100 million passenger journeys
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11 January 2023
Evening Standard
London business leaders slam Hunt’s “bitterly disappointing” new energy package
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10 December 2022
My London
TfL urges Christmas shoppers to use London buses as passenger numbers still not back to pre-Covid levels
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7 December 2022
Evening Standard
London Tube passenger numbers back to pre-Covid levels at key shopping spots
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7 December 2022
City AM
Tube trips in shopping hotspots hit one million as people fall for Christmas frenzy
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28 November 2022
Drapers
London businesses hit out at new rail strikes
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24 November 2022
Rail Insider
There’s nothing Scrooge-like about an Elizabeth line Christmas
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23 November 2022
Evening Standard
Three West End pedicab drivers fined after complaints of Disney hit blasting at high volume
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23 November 2022
Property Week
Show football mobs the red card
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18 November 2022
Property Week
Designated Entertainment Zones good for cities
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15 November 2022
Financial Times
Letter: Arts cuts in London make country culturally poorer
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14 November 2022
Evening Standard
Tourist-fleecing pedicabs are a menace to London
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7 November 2022
On London
London arts industry counts cost of ‘levelling up’ funding cuts
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5 November 2022
Evening Standard
London’s cultural venues from Donmar Warehouse to Royal Opera House respond to major Arts Council funding cuts
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1 November 2022
Mayfair Times
Mayfair PA at The Londoner
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24 October 2022
City AM
‘Jewel in the crown’: Elizabeth Line’s Bond Street station formally opens
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24 October 2022
Rail Advent
Bond Street’s Elizabeth Line station has officially opened
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13 October 2022
Estates Gazette
The darkest hour: fixing London’s night-time economy
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1 October 2022
Forbes
Four new hotels In London’s rapidly transforming West End
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1 October 2022
Mayfair Times
Picture the scene
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6 September 2022
Property Week
What London needs from the next PM
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1 September 2022
New London Quarterly
West End Girl
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31 August 2022
Property Week
West End requires urgent action
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26 August 2022
The Industry Fashion
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak urged to address business rates reform
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25 August 2022
Evening Standard
West End business leaders beg Tory PM contenders for relief
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25 August 2022
Property Week
West End retail figures lobby PM candidates for lower business rates
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25 August 2022
Retail Gazette
Further calls for Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak to reform business rates that are ‘devastating’ high streets
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24 August 2022
Evening Standard
Date for Elizabeth line link-up finally revealed
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23 August 2022
Rail Advent
London’s Elizabeth Line to serve Reading, Heathrow and Shenfield from November
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23 August 2022
Economy Class & Beyond
London’s Elizabeth Line to serve Reading, Heathrow and Shenfield from November
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23 August 2022
Rail Business Daily
Next phase of Elizabeth Line confirmed to open this November
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23 August 2022
City AM
Elizabeth line: Direct services from Reading and Heathrow to central London will begin in November
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19 August 2022
Drapers
How is a summer of strike action impacting London retail?
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16 August 2022
City AM
Hospitality firms plead for energy bill support to survive ‘dire’ situation worse than pandemic
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28 July 2022
City AM
Businesses to receive boost following restoration of Night Tube services for first time since pandemic
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20 July 2022
Big Hospitality
Hospitality reiterates calls for Government to ease Brexit visa regulations as vacancies continue to grow
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20 July 2022
The Caterer
West End hospitality businesses suffer 20% loss in sales due to staff shortages
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20 July 2022
Property Week
The jobs crisis in hospitality is worsening
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19 July 2022
OnLondon
New figures show London suffering high rates of both unemployment and staff shortages
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19 July 2022
Evening Standard
West End bars and restaurants call for staff crisis visa reforms
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4 July 2022
Mayor of London
Mayor’s tourism campaign encourages visitors back to the capital
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23 June 2022
City AM
The funding deal ‘vital’ for London
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21 June 2022
The Sun
Train strikes: Commuters’ fury as they are stranded for hours on gridlocked roads and in queues for overcrowded buses
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20 June 2022
Drapers
London businesses hit out at rail strike action
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20 June 2022
Daily Mail
Labour MPs to join rail strike picket lines: The UK starts grinding to a halt as unions plunge Britain into a £1bn ‘lockdown’ and the RMT is accused ‘punishing millions of innocent people’ in pursuit of a massive pay rise
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10 June 2022
Time Out
A new streaming site is about to transform the West End into a movie-verse
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24 May 2022
Evening Standard
West End tells ministers promising crackdown on rogue pedicabs and rickshaws: ‘Get on with it!’
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13 May 2022
LBC
Jubilee Night Tube services to return next weekend, TfL confirms
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5 May 2022
Investors’ Chronicle
Shaftesbury’s higher valuation is a sign of West End health
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21 April 2022
Property Week
A manifesto for London’s recovery
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12 April 2022
The Retail Bulletin
Westminster City Council creates pop-up boutique for 12 emerging brands
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12 April 2022
Fashion United
Westminster Council opens pop-up for emerging independent businesses
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8 April 2022
React News
If you were Prime Minister for a day, what would you change?
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8 April 2022
Retail & Leisure International
12 Piccadilly Arcade launches – brand new pop-up boutique concept
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8 April 2022
London Post
12 Piccadilly Arcade launches – brand new pop-up boutique concept to be home to 12 emerging brands
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8 April 2022
Fashion Network
Multi-brand pop-up opens in heart of West End
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25 February 2022
PRO Landscaper
Vision for London’s West End revealed
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25 February 2022
Fashion Network
New £1bn recovery plan for London’s West End shopping district unveiled
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25 February 2022
Retail Times
Bold vision for West End by Heart of London Business Alliance
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25 February 2022
FashionUnited
Plan to ‘reinvigorate’ London’s iconic West End revealed
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20 February 2022
The Telegraph
Sadiq Khan faces further congestion charge criticism over quashed weekend fines
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17 January 2022
Evening Standard
Now end the WFH misery hurting London
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7 January 2022
Evening Standard
Show us a way out of Covid Plan B, plead London bosses
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17 December 2021
Property Week
New Covid-19 measures will ‘cost businesses immensely’
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13 December 2021
EG
West End landlords ‘cheered’ as shoppers undeterred by Plan B Covid-19 rules
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9 December 2021
Evening Standard
Plan B: Retail and property boss call for government support as Boris Johnson introduces new restrictions
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9 December 2021
EG
Arts quarter planned for West End as part of pandemic recovery
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9 December 2021
EG
Fresh home working rules will hit central London ‘disproportionately hard’
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26 November 2021
Reuters
London hit by biggest Tube strike in three years
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26 November 2021
EuroNews
London hit by biggest Tube strike in three years
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16 October 2021
Evening Standard
London’s Night Tube to return from November – but only two lines
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30 September 2021
Property Week
Central London disproportionately hard hit by Covid
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27 August 2021
EG
Property chiefs join Khan in calling for West End al fresco extension
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6 August 2021
Evening Standard
End pingdemic now – it’s crippling London’s economy, say business leaders
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30 July 2021
The Stage
Relaxing of tourist quarantine rules hailed as ‘next step’ in theatre’s recovery
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27 July 2021
LBC
Our Chief Executive, Ros Morgan, speaks to Jim Diamond on LBC
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20 July 2021
Bisnow
51 women who thrived in 2020 and 2021, featuring our Chief Executive, Ros Morgan
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21 June 2021
Evening Standard
Why art and culture is good for the soul, the West End and the UK
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17 June 2021
Property Week
Why all of London’s West End needs ‘levelling up’
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17 June 2021
Evening Standard
Making working from home a right is a dangerous ground, warn business chiefs
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15 June 2021
City A.M.
‘West End productions cannot survive under social distancing’ warn theatres
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3 June 2021
EG
How art and culture will draw people back to the city
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12 April 2021
Financial Times
London’s West End restaurants prepare for al fresco-only dining
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12 April 2021
Drapers
Retail reopening to trigger ‘spending splurge’
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18 March 2021
Property Week
London needs a recovery plan
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24 February 2021
Bloomberg Radio
Overhaul archaic business rates
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22 February 2021
Evening Standard
We can’t afford any more false starts after lockdown, say hospitality bosses
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18 February 2021
Evening Standard
‘London night life will go dark for ever without help’, say industry chiefs
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18 January 2021
Property Week
Forecast for 2021: looking ahead with hope
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18 January 2021
Evening Standard
West End retail chiefs plead for more cash to protect livelihoods
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15 January 2021
Evening Standard
£9,000 Covid-19 recovery grants ‘laughable for firms facing West End costs’
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5 January 2021
New London Architecture
Predictions of cultural ruin are becoming a reality with third lockdown
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4 January 2021
On London
London business groups renew plea for more government help as tighter Covid rules loom
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22 December 2020
Simple News
Tier 3 will kill off our fragile recovery, business chiefs warn Boris Johnson
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21 December 2020
The Telegraph
Retailers extend returns policies for Tier 4 customers
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17 December 2020
Business Matters
Fears bars and restaurants face three months of restrictions with 21,000 venues in England currently under Tier 3
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16 December 2020
Daily Mail
Fears bars and restaurants face three month of restrictions with 21,000 venues in England currently under Tier 3 and millions of pints poured away
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15 December 2020
Drapers
Retail is allowed to remain open in London under Tier 3 regulations, but there are fears that the closure of hospitality will depress footfall in the lead-up to Christmas
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14 December 2020
On London
Mayor and fellow London leaders step up efforts to avoid shift to Covid Tier 3
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14 December 2020
Evening Standard
Boris Johnson was urged not to snuff out London’s fragile economic recovery by plunging the capital into Tier 3 this week despite a surge in coronavirus infections.
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14 December 2020
Retail Week
Thousands of jobs are feared to be at risk as Tier 3 Covid restrictions come into force this week in London, at a time when the streets would normally be packed with Christmas shoppers
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18 November 2020
Evening Standard
London shops should stay open until 11pm after lockdown to boost West End, business leader says
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5 November 2020
The Telegraph
Essential retailers and streaming services stand to gain once again, but travel and leisure firms are staring at a bleak winter
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19 October 2020
Drapers
London businesses warn against city lockdown
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19 October 2020
Industry.Fashion
West End business alliance responds to Tier 2 lockdown of London
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19 October 2020
Daily Mail
Sadiq Khanage: Restaurants, pubs and hotels blast London mayor for ‘cursing’ the capital with Tier 2 lockdown putting ‘250,000 hospitality jobs at risk’
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19 October 2020
Evening Standard
Tier 2 lockdown a catastrophe for us, say hospitality bosses
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19 October 2020
Evening Standard
London Tier 2 rules to come into force from midnight on Friday as capital faces tough new lockdown measure
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19 October 2020
Fashion United
London business alliance warns of ‘catastrophic’ lockdown impacts
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19 October 2020
The Drinks Business
UK hospitality sector to demonstrate against ‘catastrophic’ coronavirus restrictions
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15 October 2020
Newsday
Tough new restrictions for London as cases rise
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7 October 2020
Evening Standard
West End arts jobs could plunge by 95% under long term virus restrictions, warns Tory MP
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6 October 2020
Evening Standard
Government’s 10pm curfew for pubs, bars and restaurants caused ‘catastrophic collapse’ in weekend takings, say West End business owners
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6 October 2020
CityAM
Report: ‘Worst-case’ Covid-19 scenario could ‘wipe out’ London’s cultural sector
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6 October 2020
Evening Standard
Transport for London finance fears over Boris Johnson’s ‘work from home’ plea
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6 October 2020
EG
Worst-case Covid scenario delivers Armageddon for the West End
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6 October 2020
Financial Times
London’s West End faces 97% slump in added value, study warns
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29 September 2020
Estates Gazette
Covid could cost the West End’s arts and culture sector £4.7bn in 2024 – a decrease of 97% in annual gross value added, compared with 2019, according to a new worst-case-scenario report from Arup
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29 September 2020
City A.M.
Report: ‘Worst-case’ Covid-19 scenario could “wipe out” London’s cultural sector
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23 September 2020
Estates Gazette
Homeworking u-turn could turn London ‘into a doughnut’
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22 September 2020
Financial Times
Companies scramble to reverse UK back-to-office plans
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2 September 2020
Evening Standard
Desperate plea from business leaders and experts: We need leadership from Boris Johnson to help people get back on public transport
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25 August 2020
On London
Westminster: Council Labour Group calls for Covid recovery ’emergency action’
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17 August 2020
The Week
As few as one in ten civil servants heed Boris Johnson’s ‘back to work’ call, new figures show
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3 February 2020
Evening Standard Homes & Property
Cleaning up the West End: the £27m plan to tackle crime and pollution in Charing Cross Road and Leicester Square
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13 January 2020
Secret London
22 incredible things to do in London this weekend (Scenes in the Square)
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13 January 2020
Time Out London
Celebrate 100 years of cinema with this interactive sculpture trail in Leicester Square
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8 January 2020
Express Online
Batman and Wonder Woman statues to be erected in Central London
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7 January 2020
Evening Standard Online
Scenes in the Square
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7 January 2020
Yahoo News
Statues celebrating nearly a century of cinema to be placed in Leicester Square
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7 January 2020
BT.com
Statues celebrating nearly a century of cinema to be placed in Leicester Square
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7 January 2020
Yahoo Movies
Laurel and Hardy, Batman and Paddington to be honoured with Leicester Square statues
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7 January 2020
Londonist
Statues of the iconic movie stars will fill Leicester Square from next month
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