Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The UK’s accounting watchdog is in talks to move its headquarters out of the City of London to Canary Wharf or Stratford, as its plans to relocate staff to a second office in Birmingham face delays....
...holding back the city after a decade of strong economic growth....
...Benton won his constituency of Blackpool South, a key Labour target seat, by a narrow majority of 3,690 votes in 2019. It will be the 23rd by-election since the last general election in 2019....
...The standards committee found at the end of last year that Benton had committed an “extremely serious breach” of parliamentary rules....
...Benton was elected as a Conservative MP in 2019 with a majority of 3,690 but lost the whip pending the outcome of the investigation....
...But it is good news because the timing of Benton’s resignation means that the by-election can be held on May 2, the same day as the local elections....
...Benton was suspended by the Conservative party in April pending the outcome of the investigation....
...He is also facing another difficult by-election, having lost two to Labour this year, following the resignation of former Conservative MP Scott Benton from the House of Commons on Monday....
...Blackpool South Tory MP Scott Benton should be suspended for 35 days, including having his salary docked for that period, according to a report by MPs which found that he gave the impression of being “corrupt...
...A contentious plan to demolish the former Museum of London to make way for new offices has been placed on hold by Michael Gove, even as the City of London backed the scheme....
...If MPs endorse the committee’s recommendation, Benton will also face a recall petition from his constituents in Blackpool South, where he has a majority of 3,690....
...Another is taking place on May 2 following the resignation of former Tory MP Scott Benton, who was caught in a journalist sting offering to do paid lobbying work for a fictitious gambling company....
...This issue acts as a curtain-raiser for a year of celebrations. Welcome to Paris 2024. With the Olympics arriving in a few months, the city is in a mad rush to polish up before the torch arrives....
...Professor Photis Lysandrou Department of International PoliticsCity, University of London, London EC1, UK...
A tour of Paris in the season’s new looks
...Separately, the Conservatives are defending a 3,690 majority in a parliamentary by-election in Blackpool South, a seat vacated by Tory MP Scott Benton after a lobbying scandal....
...The City of London is likely to be affected by alterations to non-dom rules....
Ain’t no love in the chart of the city
...São Paulo faces the collapse of its electrical grid following years of under-investment, officials have warned, as widespread blackouts disrupt activity in the largest city in the Americas....
...The hero of the peculiar and poignant drama Harold Halibut is a man of endurance....
...The two businesses will have combined revenue of £490mn, and have 189 restaurants in the US and the UK and a total of nearly 600 restaurants across 44 countries including franchises....
...Being an old-school broker in the City of London ain’t what it used to be. Technology and competition have hurt profitability in traditional dealing services....
...Less than a month ago a message appeared on a white sheet hung over a bridge in Rosario, a river port city of 1.3mn in Argentina, warning of the impending “death of innocents” if the provincial government...
...But issues of sexuality, race and grief — explored through Marion’s African American friend Peggy (Denée Benton) — and union rights (which trouble George Russell) are too substantial to be dropped in as...
...the subject of an influential and inflammatory 1933 exhibition at the Kansas City Art Institute....
International Edition