3 h. ago Chinese businessmen ‘built London property empire from huge romance scam’

Chinese businessmen ‘built London property empire from huge romance scam’  The Telegraph

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4 h. ago Inside the £100m project to keep 300 London commuter trains on track for another 15 years

Southern’s entire Electrostar fleet now has phone-charging points and better wifi

Economics

19 h. ago Con artists bought £100m London office block with proceeds from fake 'romance' scam

Con artists bought £100m London office block with proceeds from fake 'romance' scam  Daily Express

Economics

4 d. ago Legendary nightclub turned into striking £49m office block where you can work from roof terrace

The new Swansea office block with six-storeys used to be the Oceana nightclub

Economics

5 d. ago Dundee incident: Five workers fall unwell after 'potential hazardous materials incident' at flats

Police officers, firefighters and ambulance staff attended the flat block.

Politics

6 d. ago London skyline set to be transformed after 'jewel like' skyscraper approved for construction in Square Mile

The vacant office block at 130 Fenchurch Street, known as Fountain House, will be demolished to make way for two new high-rise towers at a cost of £300 million

Events

2 w. ago Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when Donald Judd, art’s master minimalist, tried architecture

Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creationsA colossal cliff of green-tinted glass stretches along the side of a railway line, like a minty glacier greeting arriving trains. The glazing shimmers strangely in the light, its surface variously matt and gloss, wrapping offices and atriums together inside a changeable crystal skin. There’s a reason it looks unlike a typical office block – and it’s not just the Swiss precision.Completed in 2000, the facade of Peter Merian Haus in Basel is the largest, and yet perhaps least known, work of Donald Judd, one of the 20th century’s most important minimalist artists. If you have ever pondered a polished aluminium box in an art museum, or encountered a gnomic stack of coloured acrylic rectangles projecting from a wall, they were probably by him. But few realise that Judd’s prolific ou...

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2 w. ago Leaky roofs, collapsed walls, mega debts: when art’s master minimalist Donald Judd tried architecture

Weary of the New York scene, and keen to focus on architecture, the artist started buying up properties to play with in a tiny Texas town. Trouble was, he couldn’t stop. We take the tour of his Marfa creationsA colossal cliff of green-tinted glass stretches along the side of a railway line, like a minty glacier greeting arriving trains. The glazing shimmers strangely in the light, its surface variously matt and gloss, wrapping offices and atriums together inside a changeable crystal skin. There’s a reason it looks unlike a typical office block – and it’s not just the Swiss precision.Completed in 2000, the facade of Peter Merian Haus in Basel is the largest, and yet perhaps least known, work of Donald Judd, one of the 20th century’s most important minimalist artists. If you have ever pondered a polished aluminium box in an art museum, or encountered a gnomic stack of coloured acrylic rectangles projecting from a wall, they were probably by him. But few realise that Judd’s prolific ou...

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2 w. ago London's ancient relics dating back centuries... now surrounded by towering glass skyscrapers

Dramatic photos showed the tower of All Hallows Staining Church balanced on stilts to preserve it as a new office block is built, but it is far from the only example of old London surrounded by the new.

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2 w. ago 'Creepy Facebook message 10 years after husband's death was instant red flag'

Romance scam-fighter Ruth Grover received a strange message on Facebook - and uncovered a dark world of duplicity

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2 w. ago ‘I’ve never guessed I’d be duped like this’: Lovelorn dater loses $1.4 million in romance scam

A Colorado man lost $1.4 million to a cryptocurrency romance scam after meeting a woman on Ashley Madison

Economics

2 w. ago The bloody history of church 'saved' by expert engineering, including fishmonger who met nasty end and a woman beaten to death

Photos yesterday showed how the tower of All Hallows Staining has been balanced 45 feet above the ground as part of an ongoing office block development.

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2 w. ago Medieval London church is balanced 45 feet above the ground in 'never before seen feat of engineering'... to make way for huge office block

The Grade I listed tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts above a 60,000 square foot excavation site at 50 Fenchurch Street.

Events

3 w. ago Home Office loses bid to challenge High Court ruling that granted Eritrean man a temporary block on his deportation to France under 'one

Only three Channel have been deported so far as part of the agreement with President Macron , undermining claims it will act as a deterrent.

Society

3 w. ago Revolut opens global HQ in London, pushes for 100M users with $13B investment By Investing.com

Revolut opens global HQ in London, pushes for 100M users with $13B investment By Investing.com  Investing.com

Economics

3 w. ago High Court block on deporting migrant to France damages public interest, Home Office claims

An Eritrean migrant had his deportation to France delayed last week after a High Court ruling

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3 w. ago Eritrean man is second to be deported to France under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ deal

Home Office says man left Heathrow for Paris early on Friday after losing high court attempt to block moveAn Eritrean man has been deported to France under the UK government’s “one in, one out” deal with the neighbouring country.The man – the second to be deported under the agreement – was on a flight that left Heathrow for Paris at 6.15am on Friday, the Home Office confirmed after he lost a high court attempt to block the move. Continue reading...

Economics

4 w. ago Bank highlights common jobs and excuses for needing money used in romance scams

Lloyds is warning people about red flags to look out for that could be a sign of a romance scam.

Economics