20 h. ago Urgent search launched as fears grow for missing teen who vanished while swimming in lake with friends

A 16-year-old boy has been reported missing to Cambridgeshire police after getting into difficulty while swimming with a group of friends in a lake in Peterborough

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26 h. ago In South London, a Victorian artist’s studio boasts incredible light

In South London, a Victorian artist’s studio boasts incredible light  The Spaces

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3 d. ago AD FEATURE: 'I needed investment to grow my business, and NatWest was a huge part of that process'

The bank is expanding its free Accelerator to reach 10,000 entrepreneurs in 2025 – celebrating the milestone with launch of new competition to help UK businesses grow

Economics

4 d. ago Gulf Air Launches Its Latest London Gatwick Route to Fuel European Growth and Strengthen Bahrain’s Role in the UK Travel Market

Gulf Air Launches Its Latest London Gatwick Route to Fuel European Growth and Strengthen Bahrain’s Role in the UK Travel Market  Travel And Tour World

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8 d. ago Scottish firm brings digital boost to growing freelance sector

A Scottish web design firm is tapping into the growing freelance sector with the launch of a new online tool to help organise work from home professionals and small businesses.

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9 d. ago 'World leading' London film and music studio moves closer to reality as Hans Zimmer firm submits plan

'World leading' London film and music studio moves closer to reality as Hans Zimmer firm submits plan  Yahoo News UK

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1 week ago Camden Film Quarter Moves Forward: Soundstages, Screen Academy & Studio Tours Planned For London Development

Camden Film Quarter Moves Forward: Soundstages, Screen Academy & Studio Tours Planned For London Development  Deadline

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2 w. ago The London Studio Grows with New Launches, Licensing Development Manager

The London Studio Grows with New Launches, Licensing Development Manager  License Global

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2 w. ago A ‘bridge to prosperity’? Guinea’s junta touts opening of mining megaproject

Vast Simandou complex has 2.8bn tonnes of iron ore deposits, but many worry about its environmental costDeep in the south of Guinea lies Simandou, an impressive mountain range with a lucrative underbelly: the world’s largest untapped iron ore deposits, amounting to an estimated 2.8bn tonnes.In 2013, it was at the centre of one of the biggest mining financial scandals in history, stemming from an ownership tussle over development licenses awarded in the 1990s during the regime of the west African country’s former authoritarian president Lansana Conté . Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘I think my fetish furniture hampered my career’: Allen Jones on decades of controversy

He wanted to remove sculpture’s safety valve – and blew up the 60s as a result. The great pop-pioneer looks back on an extraordinary career, from getting thrown out of art school to covering Kate Moss in fibreglassAllen Jones, painter, sculptor and print-maker – he calls himself a painter who sculpts – is arguably the first, debatably the most famous British pop artist. I meet him in the studio he built 20 years ago, when he moved out of London to the Cotswolds, the kind of chocolate-box surroundings where they’ll only let you build something if it looks like a barn. “But a barn is designed specifically to keep light out!” he says in amused frustration, and huh, yes, sounds obvious when you say it. An architect found his way round that, and the place is swimming in light.Against one wall of the studio are five of the fibreglass female figures he made as an ongoing series between the early 80s and 2015. At 5ft 2in, they are slightly smaller than lifesize mannequins. The critic Mark H...

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2 w. ago Qinetiq affected by UK and US contract delays despite defence boom

The Farnborough-based company added that it is launching a restructuring of its US business to help drive growth.

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2 w. ago Reeves launches new bonfire of regulations in bid to boost economic growth

Regulators have been summoned to Downing Street on Monday for meeting with the chancellor amid plans to slim down or abolish the bodies

Economics

2 w. ago Nationwide launches new cash Isa products as fears grow over Rachel Reeves tax raid

The building society has launched a range of new products with increased interest rates in a new announcement, amid speculation the Chancellor is planning a raid on the popular accounts

Economics

3 w. ago ‘I cried about my breast cancer – but I didn’t throw a pity party’: Anastacia on hardship, hits and humour

Twenty-five years after her debut album, the star is still loving life as a ‘continual working girl’. She talks about menopause, mastectomy and her bizarre failure to crack her native AmericaAfter Anastacia had a double mastectomy in 2013, she began to joke about it. “It was wild to look at myself. I said: ‘My boobs look like this!’” She peers at me with her eyes screwed shut. We are sharing a sofa in a photographic studio in London. I’m not sure what she means, but she belts out, “No eyeballs!” (Typically, nipples come towards the end of reconstructive surgery.) Even in hospital, “I would make jokes and be funny,” she says. “I’m lucky.” Lucky isn’t how many people would feel after getting breast cancer for the second time, but preventive surgery was her choice and, she says, “I can accept it when I find humour in it. Being able to take the mick out of myself and my toxic titties! – See! There you go! – it takes the sting out of it.”Anastacia has always been like this, she says. Bac...

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3 w. ago Seed growing project launched by Lanarkshire environment groups

Gardeners can receive free seed packs to grow fruit and vegetables through the new initiative

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3 w. ago The disturbing case of a Tantric yoga guru and his followers

Under the guise of spiritual leadership, Gregorian Bivolaru allegedly exploited hundreds of people through an international network of yoga camps and retreats. Now he’s awaiting trial, accused of kidnap, trafficking and rape. Here, one of his victims reveals how she broke freeFrom the outside, Tara Yoga Centre looks like a normal, welcoming yoga studio. A pleasant building in an expensive east London postcode, with another popular branch on an Oxford high street. There are positive, even gushing, Google reviews. The website is professional, with photos of smiling people stretching on matching purple yoga mats. It promises “rapid and integral transformation”, as well as “an invitation to awaken now”.When Miranda, from Oxford – who has asked to go only by her first name – was in her late 20s, she visited India to practise yoga. It was 2015 and yoga was already a booming industry in the UK. She was working as an English teacher at a London school and gravitated to yoga for the same rea...

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4 w. ago Green light for new council housing and student rooms above Southwark station

The ‘Bauhaus’-inspired development will be 15 storeys high and includes new cafe and retail units along with a community garden and play space

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