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Cooper still in last-minute talks with Treasury over spending review

Reports suggesting greater police spending will mean a squeeze on other areas of the Home Office’s budget.

Evening Standard

Alphawave agrees £1.8bn takeover by America’s Qualcomm

The deal is worth less than half the value at which Toronto-headquartered Alphawave floated when it listed in London just over four years ago.

Evening Standard

Miss Myrtle’s Garden at the Bush Theatre: 'suffused with gentle wit'

3/5 Generations of a London Jamaican clan are explored in this empathetic play

Evening Standard

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London Tech Week 2025 as it happened - Jensen Huang, Keir Starmer and everything else we saw at the show

We were at London Tech Week 2025 - here's what we saw

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Takeover fever grips City as three UK firms receive US offers

Alphawave, Oxford Ionics and Spectris targeted as flagging share prices leave British companies vulnerable

The Guardian - UK

What a hoot! Owl sightings increase in London – and not just in the leafy suburbs

Chances are, wherever you live, if there’s greenery around there will be owls there too

The Guardian - UK

Queen’s hosts women’s tennis for first time in 52 years – with equal prize money on the horizon

A new WTA tournament at the prestigious west London venue this week will precede the traditional men’s event – and has already attracted 10 of the top-20 players in the world

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Semi-conductor group Alphawave is latest tech company to quit London listing as it agrees £1.8bn takeover

Alphawave listed in London in May 2021 in an IPO valuing it at £3.1 billion

Evening Standard

US hoping for ‘handshake’ from China at London trade talks; takeover flurry in the City – as it happened

US hoping to get handshake from China over access to rare earths, at meeting in London today

The Guardian - UK

‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott

Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London

The Guardian - UK

Why is the Mayor turning back the clock on e-vans?

Vans are now the biggest single contributor to harmful NOx emissions on London’s roads

Evening Standard

London’s V&A Storehouse museum lets visitors get their hands on 5,000 years of creativity

Most big collections have only a fraction of their items on display, with the rest locked away in storage

The Independent UK

North of England lost out on £140bn for transport in ‘decade of deceit’ – study

Thinktank calls on ministers to close investment gap after ‘hollow’ promises from previous governments

The Guardian - UK

Brit awards swap London for Manchester to ‘invigorate’ show

Organisers say move to Co-op Live as part of 50th anniversary plans honours city’s legendary music heritage

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The Independent UK

North missed £140bn of transport investment during last government – research

Independent analysis by think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research looked at Treasury figures between 2009/10 and 2022/23.

The Independent UK

Brit Awards to be held outside London for the first time in its history

The UK music industry's biggest night has been held in London for the past four decades

Evening Standard

Tulip Siddiq requests meeting with Bangladeshi leader during London visit over corruption claims

Hampstead and Highgate Labour MP Siddiq denied wrongdoing, calling the probe ‘this fantasy investigation’

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Angry friends removing graffiti from Bakerloo line Tube trains ‘doing what Sadiq Khan can’t'

Group members say they are fighting against London’s ‘broader decline’

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Scotland Yard 'increasingly concerned' for London teenager missing for three months as family issue appeal

Prince Watson, 15, was last seen on March 15 in Barnet

The Guardian - UK

‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writers

The Independent UK

Voices: Chilling red wine actually makes it taste better (yes, really)

THE WINE DOWN: I’m not suggesting I came up with the idea of chilling red wine, writes Rosamund Hall, but I love to see that it’s become more mainstream since the days I used to serve it at my east London wine bar

Evening Standard

Outrage as boy, 8, turned away from treatment at London NHS clinic 'because he attends private school'

Mother blames Labour's VAT raid on private school fees for emboldening the NHS to deny her son help with his crippling joint condition

Evening Standard

Passenger jet forced to return to London Heathrow after windscreen cracks

The plane was carrying 188 passengers and crew when pilot was forced to take evasive action

The Independent UK

New disputes emerge ahead of US-China trade talks in London

U.S.-China trade talks in London this week are expected to take up a series of disputes that have buffeted relations

Evening Standard

White House urges Keir Starmer to block Chinese 'super embassy' in London amid national security fears

‘The Chinese Communist Party has a clear track record of targeting critical infrastructure’, Trump administration warns

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