More than 140,000 Londoners will get a pay boost of 5.3 per cent as it was revealed on Wednesday that the capital’s ‘real living wage’ has increased to £13.85...
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More than half of the almost 600,000 Londoners who do not earn a ‘real living wage’ have had to resort to using a foodbank in the last year, a new report has...
Proposals for the Night Tube to run on Thursday nights are being kept “under review”, Sadiq Khan has said.
Islington Council is still waiting on further advice before it decides whether to pull pension fund investments from companies linked to human rights abuses in...
Dan Levene, co-founder of Two Blues Solar, is among 14 businesses announced today as Start Up Loans’ 2024 Ambassadors.
Islington residents had one of the highest levels of disposable income in the country in 2022, new figures show, although Clerkenwell has a wide disparity of...
Islington Council says it needs ‘more national funding and economic incentives’ to meet its net-zero emissions goals by 2030, as two-thirds of councils appear...
London’s nightlife industry has warned that strict licensing laws, problems with crime, and eye-watering costs are pushing venues to the brink.
Islington Council increased its spending on making staff redundant last year, new figures show.
Disposable income in UK cities rises by as much as 30% in 2024, but London still lags behind
London suffered a net loss of around 40 pubs and bars last year, while at the same time employing a record high number of staff in the sector, new data reveals.
House prices increased slightly, by 0.4%, in Islington in May, new figures show.
The job market in Haringey and Islington may not be dynamic enough to encourage economic growth, new figures suggest.
Real Madrid will win Saturday’s UEFA Champions League final, Sadiq Khan has predicted, as he kicked off celebrations in Trafalgar Square.
The Government is “gaslighting the British public” by hailing the fact that the UK economy has grown at the fastest rate in two years, Sadiq Khan has claimed.
New figures reveal how private renters and homeowners in Islington were affected by inflation and increased interest rates last year.
The NHS spent hundreds of thousands of pounds helping smokers in Islington quit last year, new figures show.
Tory mayoral candidate Susan Hall has said she is still “thinking about” whether to hire a Night Czar if she is elected, with just six days until Londoners go...
Hundreds of appointments were postponed at Moorfields Eye Hospital Trust due to the junior doctors' strike this month, new figures show.
Just over one in 20 people in Islington work in high emission industries, new figures show.
London’s hospitality sector took in more cash last year than pre-pandemic levels, according to data hailed by Sadiq Khan as proof of the industry’s “phenomenal...
Chief executives of the 100 largest companies in the UK will have earned the yearly wage of the average Islington resident by 9am on Friday January 5, figures...
GP surgeries in north central London could be receiving payments for hundreds of thousands of patients who may not exist, new figures suggest.
Fewer Islington schools offered tutoring support last year, new figures show.
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