Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Business leaders at some of England’s local enterprise partnerships – the bodies to which Lord Heseltine wants ...

The U.S. Treasury Department has blacklisted a popular Russian singer over alleged links to an international criminal group. Grigory Lepsveridze, better known as Grigory Leps, is accused of links to ...

Writer-director Chris Bonafede needed a beautiful, elegant, and, most important, mysterious leading lady to play the titular antiheroine in his short film “Sivan.” With New York–based actor Inga Leps, ...

An overhaul of local economic partnerships (leps) is on the horizon, despite the government bypassing them by delegating the delivery of newly announced funding pots to councils instead. The reforms ...

Local Enterprise Partnerships help to develop the region's economy Who's in charge of growing the region's economy? These days the task falls to six Local Enterprise Partnerships, or Leps. They ...

Lep Network chair Mark Bretton tells LGC the body’s members have addressed governance concerns raised in 2018 and must not be left out of future growth plans. Perhaps surprisingly for the chair of the ...

IF YOU asked 100 people what a local enterprise partnership (LEP) is, the chances are that only a handful would be able to tell you what it does. And yet if you work in the Westcountry, or drive ...

Leaders of the Midlands’ local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) say they should be central to the delivery of the economic recovery and levelling up. For 10 years LEPs have been driving forward ...