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Extreme makeover: ‘Hanover Square has got its mojo back'

MAYFAIR’S oldest garden square has been reborn as a glamorous West End destination after a decade as a noisy building site avoided by Londoners.

BORIS ‘WEAKENED' BY SLEAZE STORM

SENIOR TORIES SAY PM’S AUTHORITY DAMAGED AMID BACKBENCH FURY. PM has ‘significantly dented his reputation with Conservative MPs’

International manhunt for £26m Tamara raid suspect

AN international manhunt was underway today for a suspect in a series of burglaries including a £26 million raid on Formula 1 heiress Tamara Ecclestone’s home in west London.

It's a shame big polluters won't consign coal to history, says minister

Warning on ‘glaring gaps’ as China won’t sign up

My John Lewis Christmas song is a real dream

Londoner Lola is ‘super-happy’ to be on soundtrack for store’s festive ad

HUMBLED BORIS IN MASSIVE SLEAZE U-TURN

COMMONS REFORMS AXED AFTER OUTCRY. PATERSON FACES SUSPENSION AFTER ALL. Screeching U-turn by Boris just 24 hours after MPs vote to rip up rules

Derwent starts to build net-zero carbon office

PROPERTY developer Derwent London today said it has put spades in the ground to start a £400 million net-zero carbon office project in the West End, encouraged by improving market sentiment.

Guy Fawkes goes hi-tech for Tower tour to take you to heart of plot

THE vaults of the Tower of London will be opened to the public for the first time in decades as part of an immersive experience pitching Londoners into the heart of Guy Fawkes’s Gunpowder Plot.

Henderson: Biennial World Cup will put too much strain on players

ENGLAND and Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson says he is opposed to FIFA’s plans to introduce biennial World Cups from 2028.

New John Lewis ad provides comfort in the banal

IS THE hype around the John Lewis advert starting to backfire?

Protecting Africa key to winning climate fight

Kenyan president joins Evening Standard proprietor with plea to world leaders

Sainsbury's gears for ‘big Christmas' as sales and profits surge

SAINSBURY’S chief executive Simon Roberts today said the supermarket is gearing up for a “big Christmas” as it unveiled rising sales, profits, and market share.

Eating offal is far more virtuous than going vegan

LIZ TRUSS, the Foreign Secretary, occasioned no surprise whatsoever when she declared on World Vegan Day that she was against a meat tax. She has a rural Norfolk constituency. Critics felt she wasn’t on message for the event, or with COP26.

Tuchel's tweak does the job as Chelsea labour to victory

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

£15m claim is Loch Ness Monster view of reality, court hears

AN ATTEMPT to seize £15.3 million from an Azeri tycoon’s family living in London is based on a “Loch Ness Monster” view of reality, a court was told today as it heard claims that there is no evidence of criminal conduct to justify taking the money.

We'll entertain fans at HQ, vows Jones

EDDIE JONES says his new-look England team’s ambition is to play such entertaining rugby that a packed-out Twickenham will not be lulled into performing Mexican Waves.

Crisis-hit Met unveils plan to keep women safe on streets

Met chief: I want to repair precious bond that has been broken with public

Our family is whole again, says mother of missing Cleo as man questioned

Relief: a shot from the video when Cleo Smith was found in Carnarvon, 47 miles from where she went missing. Inset below, her mother and stepfather

More gloom for Darktrace as top backer dumps stock

MARKET ROUND-UP

Trainline targets European growth as sales recover

ONLINE ticketing firm Trainline has seen its recovery gather pace with lockdowns easing, and today revealed plans to boost its team by 150 as bosses eye European growth.

Ziyech: I can be key man after my injury problems

HAKIM ZIYECH is ready to reboot his Chelsea career after firing them to the brink of the Champions League knockout stages.

‘I thought about quitting ... people like me weren't in the films I loved'

TESSA THOMPSON says she considered quitting Hollywood as she believed there would be a “limit to the kind of stories” she would get the opportunity to tell as an actress of colour.

We need to change our values, says director who handed Baldwin gun

THE assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer today broke his silence and said he hopes the shooting will lead to change in the industry.

London accountant who fought Ebola crisis now leading climate battle

A LONDON accountant who returned home to Africa to respond to the Ebola outbreak has become a leading figure in fighting climate change.

Lockdowns boost sales at homewares giant

CONSUMER GOODS

Court battle over £15.3m‘dirty money'

Oligarch's London family face losing ʻlaundromat' cash

BlackRock adds to THG woes with share sales

MARKET ROUND-UP

1,000 cities seize agenda with carbon-neutral vow

London Mayor will head up global drive as leaders pledge to halve emissions by 2030

Trawler wars farce after minister claims detained boat is free to leave port

THE UK’s fishing row with France descended into further confusion today after French prosecutors rubbished the Environment Secretary’s claim earlier that the scallop trawler at the centre of the dispute had been freed.

‘Install 10,000 parcel pick-up points to cut delivery emissions'

ONLINE shoppers should change their habits to improve sustainability as the e-commerce boom is set to become unmanageable in London, a new report has warned.