3 d. ago London Metal Exchange plans to introduce green metals premium

London Metal Exchange plans to introduce green metals premium  Financial Times

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3 d. ago London Metal Exchange explores premium for sustainable metals

London Metal Exchange explores premium for sustainable metals  Investing.com

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4 d. ago Action needed: social housing providers must be made accountable for the treatment of their tenants | Steve Bundred

Angela Rayner’s renters’ rights bill is admirable, but it won’t help those living in substandard accommodationSteve Bundred is a former Audit Commission chief executiveOn the tree-lined north London street where I live, scaffolders arrived seven years ago. Metal poles were erected around a housing association property next door to me, owned by the social housing provider Peabody, to allow for external refurbishment work to be carried out. But today, that scaffolding still stands – and those repair works have never been carried out.“This is yet another example of Peabody’s casual neglect of their residents. They do not respond to emails from me or senior council officers and have also ignored an enforcement notice served on them by planning officers,” the chair of Islington council’s planning committee, Martin Klute, recently told the Islington Tribune. Peabody owns more than 5% of Islington’s nearly 112,000 properties. And it has well below average performance on every key indicator...

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5 d. ago TRIPTYKON Announces Dark Shroud Over London Events For This May

TRIPTYKON Announces Dark Shroud Over London Events For This May  Metal Injection

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6 d. ago JD Vance granted lightning audience with Pope Francis in Vatican

US vice-president spends few minutes with pontiff whom he has publicly disagreed with over migrationPope Francis and JD Vance, who have disagreed very publicly over the Trump administration’s attitude to immigration and its migrant deportation plans, met briefly in Rome on Sunday to exchange Easter greetings.The meeting came a day after the US vice-president, who converted to Roman Catholicism in 2019, sat down with senior Vatican officials and had “an exchange of opinions” over international conflicts and immigration. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago The May elections are a perfect opportunity for Nigel Farage to peddle his politics of grievance | Andrew Rawnlsey

An unpopular government and floundering official opposition creates fertile territory for ReformFor his next trick, perhaps Comrade Farage will belt out all the verses of The Red Flag and tell us that his favourite book is The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. Brother Nigel has popped up on the government’s left flank by demanding the immediate nationalisation of the steel industry. He’s also expressed a solidarity with trades unionists hitherto undetected in this longtime admirer of Margaret Thatcher.At an event at a working men’s club in one of the more deprived wards of County Durham, the old fraud even claimed to have a personal affinity with steelworkers because he used to be in the “metals business” himself. This was a disingenuous reference to his time as a trader at the London Metal Exchange, which involved long lunches in the City fuelled with copious quantities of port. Or maybe he was thinking of his gig as a paid “brand ambassador” for a firm that deals in gold bullion. ...

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2 w. ago Dagenham fire: Black smoke seen across London after scrap metal and cars catch fire at industrial estate

Ten fire engines and around 70 firefighters are attending a fire at the site on Beamway in Dagenham

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2 w. ago Dagenham fire: Smoke billows over London skyline for miles from blaze at scrap metal site

The London Fire Brigade confirmed a fire has broken out on an industrial site on Beamway in Dagenham - they were called at 14:09 and no casualties or injuries have been reported

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3 w. ago TRNSMT 2025: BBC Introducing comes to Glasgow Green with 20 emerging acts set to perform

TRNSMT 2025 will bring some of the future stars of the UK music scene to Glasgow Green this year.

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3 w. ago Exclusion from Trump's tariffs reduces premium of New York precious metals over London

Exclusion from Trump's tariffs reduces premium of New York precious metals over London  Reuters

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3 w. ago A thunderous fusion of metal and Indian tradition crashes London – photo gallery of Bloodywood’s show at the O2 Forum Kentish Town

A thunderous fusion of metal and Indian tradition crashes London – photo gallery of Bloodywood’s show at the O2 Forum Kentish Town  Chaoszine

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4 w. ago “This is less a concert than a hard rock workout”: Bloodywood’s energetic Indian folk/nu metal fusion makes for one of London’s sweatiest gigs in recent memory

“This is less a concert than a hard rock workout”: Bloodywood’s energetic Indian folk/nu metal fusion makes for one of London’s sweatiest gigs in recent memory  Louder

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