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With their cauliflower ears and wonky noses, ex England rugby players Matt Dawson and Tim Rodber are unlikely leaders of the UK’s ever-changing office scene but their company Instant – a broker for temporary office space and serviced offices – has become a major player on a global scale.

We’re told banking and BREXIT go hand-in-hand, but even if financial institutions press the ‘esc’ key, taking staff with them, there are new tenants and opportunities waiting in the wings.

Liverpool is well qualified as an alternative to London, with a population of almost half a million, a large university, two cathedrals and a well-serviced airport. It’s been a recent European Capital of Culture and has World Heritage City status – underpinned by its musical legacy that stems from The Beatles.

The Americans are coming as Trump proves a business turn off

Just how quickly can things turn 180˚ and change completely? We were just lamenting the downside of the EU referendum and a possible mass exodus of financial institutions from London – taking staff with them – when Donald Trump goes a wins a presidential election, sending America into a tailspin.

Northern Powerhouse project gains momentum

There is life outside of London and if the Government gets its way, big business will look just as favourably at the North of England as it does the capital city.

Oxford needs little introduction. It’s the home to the oldest university in the English-speaking world and a hive of business activity – there are 4,600 businesses providing 114,000 jobs. For all its dreaming spires and period architecture, Oxford is a forward-thinking city.

Whether it’s down to the ongoing BREXIT saga or the crippling stamp duty levy at the premium end of house buying, some parts of the prime Central London property market are on the verge of capitulation. House price growth in some of the most affluent areas is stalling or even in reverse, and the office/commercial markets are cautious over the possible mass exit of banks and financial institutions.

Towering skyscrapers of glossy glass and steel, a city airport ready to whisk jet setters off to super power cities and enough high-end restaurants to keep even the most fervent gourmet in gout.

York is one of the North’s greatest cities and it’s considered by many to be the traditional county town of the whole of Yorkshire.

York is an enticing blend of old and new, and has even been voted as Britain’s most beautiful city*.

Much of the recent public transport limelight has been hogged by the launch of the 24-hour weekend service on the Underground – we even wrote about it ourselves recently.

Before August, many Londoners enjoying late-nights over the weekend suffered from something we call the ‘Cinderella complex’ – cutting short celebrations to dash to a Tube station before the last train.