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, ...

When Localis published The Making of an Industrial Strategy in March, some in local government saw our call for strategic authorities as weighing in on one side of the reorganisation debate. This was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andy Street, chairman of Birmingham and Solihull LEP, has emerged as a very significant player on the local stage "A Bonfire of the Quangos" That was one promise the government has certainly fulfilled ...