A new site for Smithfield and Billingsgate Market is not an abandonment of traders, it’s an opportunity to continue the historic market’s legacy, writes City of London Corporation policy ...

Just a few hundred feet separated the site where Scottish leader William Wallace - and many more besides him - was horrifically put to death and what is now Smithfield Market in central London.

Just before midnight, floodlit rows of heavy lorries block the streets around Smithfield market in the City of London ... cart stacked with pallets of Red Bull to fuel the nocturnal operation.