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London Becomes Europe’s Largest Stock Market Again
18 Jun

London Becomes Europe’s Largest Stock Market Again

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The UK’s main stock market retook its crown as Europe’s most valuable for the first time in nearly two years, data shows. The total value of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) hit $3.18 trillion on Monday, overtaking the $3.13tn total value of companies listed in Paris, according to Bloomberg data. Both valuations have shifted since and remain close, but analysts describe it as a milestone. They say the French market has slumped because of the uncertainty around its election, while the UK market is recovering after several years of underperformance. The LSE had been Europe’s largest stock…
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Croydon stabbing: Teenage boy knifed girl, 15, to death ‘with a machete after argument that began with him trying to give her flowers’ on bus to her £19,350-a-year private school
27 Sep

Croydon stabbing: Teenage boy knifed girl, 15, to death ‘with a machete after argument that began with him trying to give her flowers’ on bus to her £19,350-a-year private school

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A teenage boy 'knifed a 15-year-old girl to death with a machete after an argument that began with him trying to give her flowers' while she was getting a bus to her £19,350-a-year private school in south London today. The victim, a pupil at Old Palace of John Whitgift School in Croydon, was attacked at 8.30am - less than a mile away from the school gates. Locals say they saw a group of schoolchildren getting off the No 60 bus outside the Whitgift Centre, where a row between the girl and boy 'spilled out' onto a street busy with pedestrians. A teenage boy…
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Our Oil Blocks Are Ready To Be Tapped – Energy Minister Tells Investors In London
13 Jan

Our Oil Blocks Are Ready To Be Tapped – Energy Minister Tells Investors In London

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Energy Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has asked investors in London to take advantage of the numerous opportunities in Ghana’s upstream petroleum industry. Dr Prempeh who is leading the Ghanaian delegation is seeking to put on show six (6) available oil blocks for massive investment which are the Deep Water Cape Three Points Block, Offshore Cape Three Points South Block, Shallow Water Cape Three Points Block and Southwest Saltpond Block. It also includes the Expanded Shallow Water Tano (ESWT) Block, and Offshore Cape Three Points South (OCTPS) Block. At a strategic roadshow event at the Cavendish Conference Centre in London Dr…
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Asake’s London Concert: What Happened At The Brixton Academy Crush?
20 Dec

Asake’s London Concert: What Happened At The Brixton Academy Crush?

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Two people have died and one other remains in a critical condition after a crush at a gig in Brixton, south London. How did it happen? While many details are still unclear, the BBC has pieced together this account from verified social media videos and eyewitness accounts. Before the show Doors at the O2 Academy Brixton were due to open at 19:00 GMT for the show by Nigerian Afrobeats singer Asake. An update from the artist’s Twitter account ahead of the first of a run of shows at the venue promised DJs playing from 19:15 but warned: “Please do not come to Brixton…
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