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It’s Friday night. Everyone is moving out of their work places. All the boisterous and hefty schedules are over for now. Yet, it is five minutes to seven. Sheena is on her way to home. This twenty four year old girl lives all alone in London. While, on her way to home some thoughts are persistently striking her mind. “Can I do something to make my weekend interesting?” she mumbles.. ‘Friday night’, that is the idea. Eh! Exciting one.
On every Friday night, London took a slew across its streets, clubs, hotels and wherever possible. The purpose is just a mix of bash and blast! Nothing more is required except for the presence. Party rumble waffles everyone whosoever comes to see its simmer. Huh! Even staggering steps and drowsy feel can go with the boil. This way the night adds fresh tone in the air. Its London’s Friday night.
The night begins its party roar on every Friday late in the evening. .As soon as the night sets on its bloom: More or less every Londoner especially the youths set their foot towards the party sizzle. There are special clubs and groups for different age groups.
Among the places, Leicester square (one of the busiest spots in London), Piccadilly Circus (metro station), Bedrock (finest club in London) and Oxford Street are the most crowded and popular one. Now the question is what is so special over there? The answer is nothing and everything. These places are the conjoined of nightclubs, bars, pubs, casinos, movie halls, discotheques, fancy restaurants, and every thing for which one would like to come for. Lets say for Leicester square: one of the most ideal choice on Friday nights, is the perfect place to go for a late night movie after a hard days slog. All that: along with the joy of festivity all across, sets for a wonderful night out.
The best way to reach there is to take ride in a tube from any corner of London to Leicester square. However, during weekends on all tubes, a special warning message displays all over “Avoid using tubes on weekends especially in evenings due to overcrowding at tube and stations”. Even so, that is the point. To sense the real background one must go through the heat.
The joy of festivity seduces people of all sorts. There you will see gays, hookers, limos, multi colored hair, which otherwise is a difficult scene to find out in concert. You will see people dressed in most erratic, fashionable, crazy, and bizarre way. They gather in large number to have fun and food, hip and hop with each other. Indeed, Friday night is a place where one can cross all constraints of confinements. There is no need for dabbling into light drinks. Hells, if you want to have a drink, have a drink. How can one imagine goras party without the splash of drinks? Wild! Creatures… hmm. This sometimes, set up loud brash, brawl of seething humanity. Yeah, surely, for us Indians this is a very common sight. But there is one difference; here you will see goras shouting, abusing, hooliganism, and all that.
Nightlife in London is quite an experience for exotic travelers: where one can vouch for all the miscellany of festivity. Clubs, restaurants all get jam packed in a full hop up almost on all the nights. But Friday night is very much unlike other nights. It is neither a mere festivity nor an ingredient of distinctive London culture, it is rather that everyone be required to discover.
Once, waltz into the sizzling you will realize the standard of true international metropolitan life. Truly: a cool option to go for, which enrolls sparkle and a bit drama. Everyone over there comes with a bid to try, to recreate excitement. It is a place where can wobble themselves on piercing music numbers. If that still sounds a bit boring, then the idea to get along with your beloved would be incredibly appealing! Moreover, if you do not have one, find yours at any club or street at least for a night. Well the ball is at your court: It is totally your choice. Furthermore, you have to be a bit bold if you are carrying yourself on London merriment. Since, the western culture exhibits sexuality and nudity as its par essence.
Doesn’t it look all jovial and crashing? Yeah, it is! Since, every person appears under the sway of joy and color. Isn’t that a perfect ending? Not, yet .Eh! There is one thing under the veil that is not a friendly bet, especially for the tourists’. Well; sometimes you might have to pass through difficulty in finding conveyance. Parties go till late night all over in London and the fast tracking tubes comes to a standstill up to that time period. Other modes that include night route buses, taxis are overcrowded and most often over chargeable. Remember our Indian buses and Auto rickshaws. So be chary of all such issues .Get your personal conveyance with you; otherwise all the memoirs of a splendid Friday night could vary into an unreceptive Friday horror at the end. That is all over here.
-Surabhi Fartiyal
Food and drink is the second largest manufacturing sector in London. It is also the manufacturing sector which has performed the best in the capital over the last five years. West London Business says that 10 per cent of all London jobs are linked to the food and drink sector in some way. According to a mapping study of the capital’s food and drink production industry funded by the European Union, there are 870 businesses in London’s food and drink supply chain with a total estimated turnover of £3.3 billion. The same research also suggested that 94 per cent of the businesses in the sector are small and medium-sized enterprises with a turnover of less than £1 million each. There are thousands of restaurants in the capital and thousands of food and drink outlets. West London Business estimates that eating out contributes £8 billion a year to London’s economy. Different parts of London are famous for different kinds of food and drink. West London has been a magnet for businesses in the food and drink sector for 80 years. According to West London Business, the local chamber of commerce, the sector employs 15,000 people in the area. There are 140 businesses involved in the food industry on the Park Royal Industrial Estate alone, employing 6,000 people. One of these is the recently opened Park Royal Food Innovation Centre, which supports the development of London’s small and medium-sized food and drink enterprises. Sugar production has a long tradition in East London. Today, Tate & Lyle, with its Silvertown works, is the only cane sugar refiner in the UK. East London also has a strong brewing tradition. The Black Eagle brewery at 91 Brick Lane produced beer until 1989, the Albion brewery until 1959 and the Anchor Brewery in Mile End road until 1975. These days, East London is better known for its curry restaurants, particularly along Brick Lane. North London is the chosen location for many small businesses active in food and drink processing. Enfield provides the home for London’s only flour mill, G. R. Wright & Sons, at Ponders End. North London Business, the local chamber of commerce, helps small and medium-sized enterprises in the area to network, meet new contacts and do business with each other through North London Food Linx. South London is the base for a number of innovative businesses, such as Lambeth-based Today Was Fun, a supplier of organic teas. The company, founded by Sharyn Wortman, increased its international sales approximately ten-fold between 2005 and the end of 2007 and won the Best Newcomer award in UK Trade & Investment’s 2008 London Passport to Export Awards. London Mayor Boris Johnson recently called on food businesses in London to step up efforts to reduce their carbon footprint. This followed the publication of a report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and the London Development Agency that found Londoners’ eating habits to be responsible for more greenhouse gases each year than the entire national output of Estonia. The sector is responding. The vast majority of London’s food and drink production companies service local retailers and food services. Only a small proportion supply national retailers. One ‘green’ food business is Lambeth-based Today Was Fun, whose green tea was the first carbon neutral tea. That’s according to the CarbonNeutral Company, which carries out a simple calculation to establish how much carbon is produced in making and transporting the tea. The business neutralises its impact on the environment by buying carbon credits to cover emissions. Part of the aim of the Park Royal Food Innovation Centre in West London is to promote sustainable local food and drink production. The centre, which opened in October 2009, acts as a hub for food processing companies in London, helping them to achieve growth by providing a range of specialist services which will encourage them to innovate in terms of new products, processes, packaging, healthy eating and sustainability. Saving water is a big issue for London’s food and drink businesses. According to the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), the UK food and drink industry takes 430,000 cubic metres from the public water supply every day, accounting for approximately 10 per cent of all industrial use. It also takes about a tenth of all water abstracted from rivers and other water courses. This amounts to another 260,000 cubic metres a day.
According to the Centre for Economics and Business Research, UK’s economy has managed to remain robust therefore London’s growing financial district will create more new jobs in 2007 than previously expected.
The job growth in the City of London financial centre that has driven employment to record highs in 2006 is showing signs of cooling off though. Major investment banks have been hiring steadily in 2006 to take advantage of a surge in M&A and corporate finance activity, plus booming stock and bond markets.
Thanks partly to increasing regulatory demands on financial firms, recruitment could pick up again in 2009, with professional services staff most in demand. CEBR forecast total City of London jobs in 2009 at 336,100, roughly level with 2006s record total.
And even though cross-border mergers and flotations are forecast to continue at a rapid rate, CEBR expects the number of corporate finance jobs to be about 13,500 in 2009, close to current levels.
An official report by internationally renowned management consultants McKinsey has said New York is losing its place to London as the world’s leading financial centre.
Last year, 419 international companies were listed on the London Stock Exchange compared to just 174 in New York. And this translates into jobs with London’s financial companies taking on more than 12,000 extra people in the last three years.
318,000 people are employed in London’s financial district, while 328,000 employed in NY financial district. Ian Barlow, a senior partner at accountancy firm KPMG and chairman of Think London, aims to encourage overseas firms to set up in London: “We know that London is a great financial centre.’
“We constantly promote London as a place where the world’s companies can and should do business and we say that every overseas firm, wherever they are based, should set up in London as well.” |
London
September 9, 2010, 3:54 pm
 Partly sunny 17°Cwind speed: 3 m/s SW
sunrise: 6:26
sunset: 19:29
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