L’oscar – the new Central London hotel in Holborn was extravagantly restored by world-leading decorator, Jacques Garcia and L’oscar International.

Speaking to Conde Nast Traveller, Garcia said: “I fell in love with the 19th-century architecture straight away. And within minutes I knew how it would look, how to make this marvellous base sublime.”

The Grade II-listed building was built between 1901 and 1903 and housed the offices of the Union until the move to Didcot in 1989. After being sold to London Underground to make a new entrance to Holborn Tube Station, it lay unoccupied for many years.

The building was briefly used as a hostel for the homeless, but has remained unoccupied after.

It was converted and extended into the 67 room hotel after it was bought by a private buyer having been listed for sale at £19m.

While its rooms and corridors have been lavishly restored, the new owners worked closely with English Heritage and Camden Council to ensure sensitive restoration with many of the building’s period features remaining intact.

The committee room which is now an events space contains a fireplace with an original terracotta carving of a scene from Bunyan’s The Pilgrims Progress.

A mezzanine floor has also been…

Archbishop Justin made bold calls regarding the issue after opening the market on Monday morning at the London Stock Exchange.

Speaking to delegates at the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) Summit, he said: “As investors, the Church is aware of its responsibility to make sure that we manage things in a manner that is aligned with Christian values, witness and mission.

“We recognise, however, that we cannot do this alone. We cannot just come in and lecture, then go away. We are one actor among many. And that is why the TPI is an example of how the Church, in partnership with others, can play a leading role.”

Also at the Summit, the Church of England Pensions Board invited participants to work with them in the development of a new low carbon index that would build on the data and analysis produced by the TPI.

I don’t usually start the week by opening the London Stock Exchange, but it was great to talk about the leading role the @churchofengland is playing in the @tp_initiative to help investors tackle climate change: https://t.co/wKhxguIMNt #TPI pic.twitter.com/WGRz3v4QOO

— Archbishop of Canterbury (@JustinWelby) July 2, 2018

Alan Fletcher, chair of the Pensions Board’s Investment Committee, said: “We are committed to doing all we can and creating an index we believe will both meet our investment needs, minimise our exposure to poorly rated companies, reward…

Fr Michael Briese was recorded on numerous mobile phones arguing with people just a few feet away from where the body of Agnes Hicks, 54, lay in repose in an open casket.

The family is then seen carrying the casket out of the church only to be joined by police officers that the family claim were called by Briese.

Briese from St Mary’s Parish in Newport wrote a public apology to the family that he was sorry, adding: “Two minutes can change a life.

“In an emergency medical situation, two minutes can save a life. But can two minutes erase a quarter-century of a person’s life and commitment to serving and caring for his community and those entrusted to his care? I hope not.”

Hicks and her family were eventually escorted to another location for the funeral Mass, which was performed by another priest.

WATCH: cell phone video inside Maryland church shows heated argument between Pastor and family laying their loved one to rest. Pastor kicked family and hundreds of attendees out of funeral because someone knocked over and damaged church’s sacred cup @fox5dc pic.twitter.com/MYQEybFYm3

— Anjali Hemphill (@AnjaliHemphill) June 28, 2018

In an interview with Fox 5, Hicks’ daughter Shanice Chisely said the priest had “disrespected our family, he disrespected my mother. He called my mother ‘a thing’.

“He said, ‘get this thing out of my church! Everyone get the hell out of my…

The arch-Eurosceptic insisted he was not “personally ambitious” and said he was not aware of a £750,000 war chest reportedly raised by supporters for an eventual leadership bid.

Pressed over whether he could put himself forward as a candidate for leader, he said: “There isn’t a contest.

“I am technically eligible to become Pope, which is open to all Catholic males, but the College of Cardinals has not elected a non-cardinal since, I think, Urban IV.

“I’m very unlikely to be the next Pope and I’m very unlikely to be the next Prime Minister, for exactly the same reason. Though technically eligible, it is not the way history will go.”

He joked: “The papacy would be fantastic. I would be infallible, which is better than is given to most politicians.”

Speaking in a podcast for ConservativeHome, Mr Rees-Mogg named Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Environment Secretary Michael Gove as “first-class candidates” to succeed Theresa May when there is a vacancy.

And he appeared to tip Mr Javid as the more likely choice, noting that, during periods in power, the Conservative Party has always chosen a former chancellor, home secretary or foreign secretary as its leader.

Asked if the party might depart from that tradition, the North East Somerset MP said: “It’s very unlikely, because Sajid has shown so successfully in his relatively brief period as Home Secretary that holding the…