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9/11 death toll keeps growing decades later as toxic exposure haunts survivors
More than two decades after the September 11 attacks, the death toll among first responders and survivors continues to rise as illnesses linked to toxic exposure at Ground Zero take their toll. Lower Manhattan was blanketed in dust and debris after the Twin Towers collapsed, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to breathe in hazardous…
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Andreea Gleeson appointed chief executive of music fintech beatBread
Indie music finance platform beatBread has named Andreea Gleeson, formerly chief executive of TuneCore, as its new chief executive, effective from the announcement on Thursday. She succeeds Tracy Maddux, who had served as interim CEO following the death of beatBread’s founding chief executive, Peter Sinclair, in August 2025; Maddux will continue supporting the transition, and…
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Labour’s new winter of discontent? Fears over looming triple whammy of rises to energy bills, interest rates and taxes
Britain faces a potential “triple whammy” this winter as rising energy bills, possible interest rate increases and further tax rises loom over households and businesses. The gloomier outlook is being driven partly by the ongoing Iran war, which has pushed oil prices higher and stoked inflation concerns, while ministers refuse to rule out fresh tax…
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Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary says government are ‘trying to protect’ £1.4m-a-year air traffic control boss and its ‘beyond comprehension’ he’s still in a job after another system meltdown
Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary has renewed his call for Martin Rolfe, head of National Air Traffic Services (NATS), to be sacked after technical failures caused a third consecutive day of flight disruption across the UK. Speaking in Dublin, O’Leary accused the government of shielding Rolfe because it holds a 49 per cent stake in…
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Crackdown on the e-bike phone muggers terrorising London: Moment officers pursue thieves along pavements, through parks and down alleys as Met arrest 187 in capital-wide operation
The Metropolitan Police has carried out a major crackdown on e-bike and moped-enabled phone thieves across central London, arresting 187 people and seizing 157 vehicles between February and July. The operation targeted prolific offenders in Westminster and other crime hotspots, combining plain-clothes and uniformed patrols with specialist officers who used tracking data from stolen phones…
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Todd Rundgren review – try-anything veteran doesn’t let his freak flag fully fly
The Guardian’s review of Todd Rundgren’s London concert at Cadogan Hall finds the 78-year-old musician’s astonishing versatility undercut by a set list that leans too heavily on unremarkable rock rather than showcasing the experimental range that made his career so distinctive. Despite producing landmark albums for artists like Meat Loaf and the New York Dolls,…
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Iceland to become first UK high street retailer to open shop in Falkland Islands
The supermarket chain Iceland is to open a store in Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands, becoming the first UK high street retailer to have a presence in the British territory. The move, announced by executive chair Richard Walker, comes as tensions over the islands’ sovereignty have resurfaced, with Argentina’s president Javier Milei renewing…
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How an Enterprise Marketing Management Platform Can Transform Your Business
This piece from Exposed Magazine explains how enterprise marketing management platforms can help large organisations coordinate complex marketing operations. It argues that when businesses rely on spreadsheets, emails and disconnected tools to run multiple campaigns across various brands and markets, problems such as missed deadlines, unclear workloads and slow approvals tend to arise, and that…
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Tourists in England face nightly levy on hotel and Airbnb stays under new plans
Ministers are set to give mayors in England the power to impose a nightly levy on hotel and Airbnb-style stays, dubbed a “tourist tax”, as part of a wider devolution push. Housing secretary Angela Rayner is meeting mayors on Thursday to outline plans that would let local leaders charge visitors a percentage of their accommodation…
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Woody Norman, Malachi Kirby, Tuppence Middleton, Conrad Khan, Kola Bokinni to Star in Urban Horror Thriller ‘Skag & Bone’; Featuristic Produces, UTA on Board (EXCLUSIVE)
Woody Norman, Malachi Kirby, Tuppence Middleton, Conrad Khan and Kola Bokinni have been cast in “Skag & Bone,” a British urban horror thriller described as a mix of “Top Boy” and “Talk to Me.” Conor Boru will direct from a script he co-wrote with Ed Hartland, with UTA Independent Film Group boarding to package the…