6 d. ago Selfless OAP who raised millions after own tragic loss gets Pride of Britain nod

A pensioner who has raised a staggering £3million for charity and is just about to celebrate his 88th birthday has been nominated for a 2025 Pride of Britain award

Economics

7 d. ago Aberdeen to introduce 7% tourist tax as visitors pay extra for overnight stays

The move is expected to raise up to £6.8 million a year, with funds going toward boosting Aberdeen’s tourism and events offering.

Economics

3 w. ago South London borough backs tourist tax plan to raise millions

Southwark Council is considering implementing a tourist tax on visitors entering the borough

Economics

3 w. ago Jim Legxacy: Black British Music review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(XL Recordings)The rapper and producer doubles down on his vaulting style, lurching from alt-rock to distortion and chipmunk soul on an astonishingly coherent and melodic third recordOn Father, the first single to be taken from Jim Legxacy’s third mixtape, the listener is offered a vivid image from the author’s past. The teenage James Olaloye, as he was then, is on the streets of Lewisham, the south-east London borough where he grew up. He is “rolling up a blunt, scheming for the funds trying to come up off the roads on my own two / I never had a father”. Inevitably, this means he’s up to no good: “Making money off a phone a key’s what they want.”It’s a familiar scenario in the world of UK rap, a genre in which you seldom want for bleak descriptions of the life its stars have left behind on often deprived council estates. But in the case of Father, it comes with a small, but striking detail. “On the block,” he attests, “I was listening to Mitski.” Continue reading...

Culture

3 w. ago Sauna raves and "immersive banquets" at new "festival inspired" Shoreditch wellness club

Merchant raised £35 million to convert former Victorian textile warehouse into sanctuary for stressed out Londoners

Politics

4 w. ago The Collective founder opens "festival inspired" wellness club in Shoreditch

Merchant raised £35 million to convert former Victorian textile warehouse into sanctuary for stressed out Londoners

Politics

4 w. ago Christine Lampard reveals 'most distressing' thing that has ever happened to her

The Loose Women star raised more than a million pounds for charity in 2010 by undertaking a challenge that had never been accomplished before but admitted that it was so "distressing" at the time.

Politics