Simona Sikimic
Simona is a reporter at LondonlovesBusiness.com. She’s been a bit of a wanderer of late, studying in New York and working as a journalist in Lebanon and Syria for the last few years but she is glad to be back in her home town writing about all things London. Property, investment and EU relations top her loving London list, while cropping photos to accompany these stories makes her want to run for the hills. If you find a stretched or mangled one, direct complaints to @simonaskm
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Londoners demand more tech on the Tube!
The world around us is getting more tech-savvy by the second. We can shop online via our mobiles, turn our mobiles into on-the-go chip and pin cards and even use our phones as credit cards, so it comes as no big surprise that more of want to see tech become a bigger part of our commuting routes. According to the poll conducted by management firm Accenture, Londoners joined fellow train and bus passengers in European, Asian and American capitals to call for installing technology toacce
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Surrey borough aka 'Beverly Hills' of Britain pays 200 times more tax than Google
The sleepy Surrey borough of Elmbridge is home to some rather saucy characters like Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood and tennis champ Andy Murray.But the borough is known for more than just its famous residents – it also happens to pay more taxes than anywhere else in the UK.In the 2010-11 tax year, Elmbridge’s inhabitants paid a combined total of £1.18bn in tax, or 200 times more than the internet giant Google. That equates to roughly £16,100 per capita worth of income tax,
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