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Watch aerials of central London after Rishi Sunak announced a general election for Thursday 4 July.

July ICE NY cocoa (CCN24 ) today is +126 (+1.70%), and July ICE London cocoa #7 (CAN24 ) is up +116 (+1.90%). Cocoa prices today are moving moderately higher for a second day. Prices are correcting upward from the month-long decline to Monday's 2-1/2 month lows. Short covering in cocoa...

"I wouldn’t have wanted to be away from home five days a week. That wouldn’t have been good for the family or for me.”

The pop-up restaurant is opening for just one day on Thursday, May 23

Eurostar is spending 10 million euros (£8.5 million) overhauling border facilities at St Pancras

Exclusive: Potentially thousands of signed works from Currency series were mass-produced by artist’s team after 2016, sources say

TfL hopes ‘dated’ piers close to major tourist attractions could become money-makers inspired by Hamburg’s famous riverside

An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, is up for auction at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt containing a combination of biblical and other early Christian texts.

They are hung alternately, cheek to cheek, in a modest but thorough show at Studio Voltaire in London, two bodies of work that represent two seemingly disparate slices of 20th-century life.