The U.K. has seen 371,510 searches for gas bottles according to new google data. As the warmer weather starts to cut through the gloom of 2025’s spring so far, people are starting to prepare for barbeque season, and while for some perhaps not realising their charcoal can be lit with Calor gas, a bag of charcoal will do, for others, they prefer cooking with Patio gas.
As London’s economy continues to evolve in the wake of global and domestic financial pressures, a less visible but deeply felt issue is quietly affecting businesses of all sizes across the capital — the surge in unpaid debts.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has said it “disappointing” that the government did not provide funding for the DLR extension to Thamesmead in its Spring Statement.