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The future of Thames Water is looking uncertain after shareholders refused to honour a £500 million (€585 million) lifeline payment due for payment by 31 March. There are growing concerns the water company could end up requiring a government bailout of billions of pounds. Kemble Water, the company's owner, has revealed that, without the expected cash, it will not be able to pay its existing debt payments, nor a £190m (€222 million) loan maturing on 30 April. Thames Water CEO Chris Weston has reassured consumers that, despite the crisis, the company will still have enough money to cover operati...
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London's property market has proved to be one of the best bets for investment over the past 10 years, with a yield of more than 44%, according to a recent market analysis by British estate agency Foxtons. The estate agent analysed the performance of the UK capital's residential property market against nine other popular investment options, including Bitcoin and the FTSE 100. It found that only two investment assets have delivered higher returns on investment over the past decade. It is hard to beat the breathtaking 4,963% yield Bitcoin has seen in that 10-year period. The cryptocurrency had an...
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In Brüssel und London haben erneut Landwirte demonstriert. In der belgischen Hauptstadt, wo zeitgleich die EU-Agrarminister tagten, blockierten nach Polizeiangaben rund 250 Traktoren am Dienstag die Straßen im Europaviertel und wichtige Einfahrtstraßen in die Stadt. Einige Demonstrierende setzen Heuballen und Autoreifen in Brand und kippten Mist auf die Straßen. Die Polizei nahm eigenen Angaben zufolge eine Person fest, weil sie Molotow-Cocktails in Richtung der Sicherheitskräfte geworfen haben soll. Die Beamten setzten außerdem Tränengas ein und verhinderten, dass Traktoren die Absperrungen d...
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Video footage has surfaced showing French police employing what has been labelled as "aggressive tactics" in attempts to deter migrant boats from crossing the English Channel. The footage, obtained and released by Lighthouse Reports in collaboration with Le Monde, Der Spiegel and The Observer, shows various cases of heavy-handed, potentially dangerous, tactics used by authorities in France. In one video, a police boat encircles a dinghy carrying individuals wearing life jackets, creating waves as it manoeuvres. Passengers of the dingy are then filmed struggling to remove water flooding their b...
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Vaughan Gething was elected first minister of Wales on Wednesday, becoming the first black leader of a government in the UK. Gething won the leadership in the Welsh parliament by securing 27 out of 51 votes, just four days after becoming the leader of Wales' governing Labour Party. Labour holds the majority in the Senedd, the Welsh legislature. Gething, the son of a Welsh father and a Zambian mother, said Wales is now “the first nation anywhere in Europe to be led by a Black person.” “It is a matter of pride for a modern Wales but also a daunting responsibility for me - and one that I do not t...
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The most recent work by the elusive street artist Banksy, located on Hornsey Road in London's Finsbury Park, has been vandalised with white paint, just three days after it was unveiled. Two distinct streaks of paint have been splattered across the green patches covering the side of the four-storey building. Created behind a pruned tree, the large spray-painted artwork aims to replicate the foliage of the tree, which has been severely cropped in a process known as pollarding - a method of pruning that restricts natural growth, according to RHS Gardening. Banksy officially claimed ownership of t...
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Freddie Mercury's sanctuary in London, where he lived the last decade of his life, is on sale for the first time in nearly half a century. Garden Lodge, a neo-Georgian brick home in the posh neighbourhood of Kensington, is for sale by agent Knight Frank for offers exceeding €35 million. It is not publicly listed. Mercury, the frontman for the rock band Queen, bought the house in 1980. According to "Mercury: An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury", he paid cash for the property, which was then listed for more than €585,000. “I saw the house, fell in love with it, and within a half an hour it ...
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London's longest running art fair returns to Somerset House from 21 to 24 March, spanning six centuries of prodigious printmaking. From new works by Boo Saville, Grayson Perry, Sarah Morris and Paul Morrison, to rare prints by Picasso, Miro, Twombly, Bacon, Freud, Emin and more; the breadth of printmaking's history and the diversity of its many forms will be shared at the London Original Print Fair (LOPF). “We are thrilled to announce the return of LOPF and to welcome many new exhibitors to the Fair this year from as far afield as New York and Tokyo," LOPF director Helen Rosslyn said. "It is w...
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Im Norden Londons ist ein neues Wandgemälde des Streetart-Künstlers Banksy aufgetaucht. Das Kunstwerk, das auf die weiße Wand eines Gebäudes gemalt wurde, ist einfarbig grün. Es ist hinter einen kahlen Baum gesprüht worden. Somit sieht es in richtigem Blickwinkel so aus, als ob der Baum Blätter trage. Darunter ist eine Frau zu sehen, die offenbar einen Schlauch in der Hand hält. Auf Social Media bestätigte Banksy, das Bild in der Hornsey Road im Stadtteil Finsbury Park gemalt zu haben.
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Mysterious street artist Banksy has confirmed a new mural, which surfaced on the side of a building on Finsbury Park’s Hornsey Road in London. The artwork was painted behind a cut-back tree to look like foliage, with a stencil of a person holding a pressure hose next to it. Before Banksy confirmed the artwork was his, James Peak, who created the BBC Radio 4 series The Banksy Story, told BBC News: “To my mind it looks like a dead cert. But as ever with Banksy, you never quite know until he fesses up by posting it on his website.” He was spot on, as the elusive artist confirmed that he was respo...
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