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Freddie's Flowers 'in growth' after third year of losses

BOUQUET delivery firm Freddie’s Flowers, which blossomed during the pandemic, has reported a third year of multi-million-pound losses.

Rolls-Royce flies past profit forecasts

SHARES in Rolls-Royce topped the FTSE 100 today, after the world-famous aero engine maker’s annual profit more than doubled.

Lloyds sets aside £450m for car loan compensation

LLOYDS BANK today set aside £450 million to cover the possible costs of a probe by the City watchdog into commission payments on car loans.

Housewives star Huffman shines but play is the problem

DESPERATE Housewives star Felicity Huffman gives a forceful, bitterly comic performance as Paige, the matriarch of an American family that really puts the fun in “dysfunctional”, in Taylor Mac’s OTT study of identity.

Meet Cora Delaney - the influencers' influencer

AMONG London’s top tastemakers, Cora Delaney, the founder of creative agency EYC LTD, must be one of the most no-bulls**t.

Parliament could be heading for very dark place, warns MP amid fears over safety

THE chaotic vote on a Gaza ceasefire shows Parliament is heading to “a very dark place”, a London MP warned today.

We have no confidence: Scores of MPs demand Speaker goes in vote farce

Fury grows after he allows Starmer off the hook with Labour amendment

Top chef flies Down Under on the off chance that Taylor fancies bite to eat at her restaurant

THE chef who catered at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s wedding has reportedly flown to Australia — just in case Taylor Swift decides to eat at her restaurant in Sydney.

We must win: Zelensky's rallying cry as Ukraine conflict enters its third year

UKRAINE’S president Volodymyr Zelensky declared “we must win” as the country’s defiant stand against Vladimir Putin’s invading army was set to enter a third year.

GABRIEL: WE'VE FOUND FORM AT THE RIGHT TIME

DEFENDER SAYS ARSENAL ARE IN A CRESCENDO’ AS THEY TARGET EUROPEAN AND PREMIER LEAGUE GLORY

'We're prepared for all they can throw at us'

Earl insists that England will cope with a hostile Murrayfield

£24bn profits at HSBC likely to revive windfall tax debate

HSBC posted record profits of more than $30 billion (£24 billion) for the last year, figures that are bound to respark the debate about bank profiteering and increase calls for a windfall tax on the biggest lenders.

Nowhere is better than London Fashion Week for genuinely exciting designers

I’M not being funny but… how amazing has it been celebrating 40 years of London Fashion Week? It was so refreshing for London not to have a paid front row at every f***ing show. This fashion week has really proven you don’t need big celebrities to show off in order to sell your clothing.

Pens sharpened in the Cliveden set as splits form over Gaza

WARS have many tragic casualties, among them friendships. Since the start of the Gaza conflict last year, a schism has been opening up at the top of the British literary world between those who support Israel's war aims and those wanting an immediate ceasefire.

'There are more statues of animals than women in London'

Justine Simons is the capital’s powerhouse deputy mayor for culture and the person adding sparkle to Sadiq, says Ross Lydall

£15m to help end food waste in Standard victory

THE Evening Standard today welcomed Rishi Sunak’s announcement that the Government is allocating £15 million to redirect farm surplus food to people suffering food insecurity.

Fine details will make you a brunch believer

I HAVE always been at precisely the wrong life stage to truly understand brunch. Around about the time that early-2010s restaurateurs were turning smashed avocado, sharing pans of shakshuka and “bottomless” day drinking into an unstoppable formula, I was a 29-year-old newish dad, slowly awakening to the fact that early parenthood wasn’t compatible with languorous mid-afternoon meals or the speed-necking of seven mimosas within a rigorously observed 90-minute window.

Matt Smith to the rescue ina watery tale where subtlety quickly drains away

KUDOS to Matt Smith: it’s bold of him to choose this unstarry, uneven production of Ibsen’s social critique for his latest return stage.

I'll boost crime fight by cutting Khan's mayoral staff, vows Hall

TORY mayoral candidate Susan Hall today called for the reinstatement of borough police commanders as she pledged to make London’s streets safer.

Fired Post Office chief hits back at Kemi with memo’

BUSINESS Secretary Kemi Badenoch faced a growing row today with the former Post Office chairman over a disputed request to delay compensation for sub-postmaster victims of the Horizon IT scandal.

London Labour MPs set to defy Starmer and push for Gaza ceasefire in vote

SEVERAL London Labour MPs vowed to back a Commons call for a Gaza ceasefire today as Sir Keir Starmer was locked in a tussle over parliamentary procedure in a bid to quell a revolt.

Tea and fizz with the style set at Downing Street fashion parade

WELCOME to Downing street to celebrate London Fashion Week’s finale and 40th anniversary tea — and champagne, obviously, this is fashion after all. The style set nibbled on miniature pastel de nata and smoked salmon sarnies.

BT sells off landmark tower in £275m deal for new London mega hotel

THE BT Tower, one of London’s most instantly recognisable landmarks, is to be converted into a luxury hotel after being sold for £275 million.

RFU FORCED TO ROW BACK ON TWICKENHAM REVAMP

£663m RENOVATION OR WEMBLEY GROUNDSHARE 'NOT FEASIBLE', SO IMPROVEMENTS ARE WAY FORWARD

Glasner era starts well as Palace show they are up for the fight

New boss watches on as his side battles for well-earned point at fellow strugglers

Building work starts on new 50-storey tower at Bankside

CONSTRUCTION has started on what will be the tallest new residential skyscraper under development in prime central London, in a big vote of confidence in the capital’s luxury homes market.

Britain needs more high-growth hero firms’

THE UK is failing to generate the fast growth small businesses that could turbocharge the economy’s lacklustre level of productivity, a major new report claims today.

Barclays surges as City welcomes shake-up plans

BARCLAYS shares surged today as Britain’s second biggest bank unveiled an ambitious shake-up including plans to return £10 billion to shareholders in the next three years.

It changed everyone who saw it so I'm delighted Live Aid is reborn on stage

LIVE AID, the music event that brought the word together 39 years ago, was surely the greatest demonstration of the power music can have over hearts and minds. Live Aid was not just a concert, it was a movement that spawned a mood of global communality and left an indelible mark on millions of lives, including my own.

The Fourth Plinth is what public art should be

WELL, you can have a sweet potato, an ice cream van, an equestrian figure draped in green slime or a black cat.