Although established as a private company, London & Partners enjoys the status of being the capital’s only official promotions agency and is reliant on public funding.
Sadiq announces £500,000 in grants to support London’s creative firms and workers
The grants are being offered by Mayor Sadiq Khan and are intended to help councils and follow a successful pilot with Haringey Council which saw creative industries in Tottenham grow “by 127 per cent” in the past five years.
TfL hopes to cash-in with auction of sector-exclusive advertising rights along the Elizabeth line
As well as state of the art trains and stations, the line’s will also feature new “best-in-class” advertising infrastructure including large and small-format digital screens, new digital escalator ‘ribbons’ and space for “bespoke and immersive brand campaigns” in stations and on trains.
The protestors are wrong, Sadiq is delivering his clean energy pledges
At the 16th November Mayor’s Question Time at City Hall, protesters turned up to complain that Sadiq Khan had “broken promises” on clean energy. Not content with demonstrating outside the building, a large group, complete with a banner, came inside and started shouting during Mayor’s Question Time.
London’s contactless fares system to power New York’s subway, bus and rail journeys
New Yorkers will soon be able to pay for their daily journeys using a contactless fares system derived from the one designed and built in-house by Transport for London.
