Private sector shrivels under Labour, says Policy Exchange August 16, 2009 BRITAIN’S private sector will be smaller in 2010 than when Labour was returned to office in 1997, according to figures calculated by the Policy Exchange think tank. The economic output of the private sector will have slipped to around £706.1bn – below the inflation adjusted £708.9bn it amounted to in the first year of Tony [...]
Private sector shrivels under Labour, says Policy Exchange August 16, 2009 BRITAIN’S private sector will be smaller in 2010 than when Labour was returned to office in 1997, according to figures calculated by the Policy Exchange think tank. The economic output of the private sector will have slipped to around £706.1bn – below the inflation adjusted £708.9bn it amounted to in the first year of Tony [...]
Shake-up talks at Network Rail August 16, 2009 RICK Haythornthwaite, the chairman of Network Rail, is holding meetings with the company’s members throughout September and October to discuss changes to the group’s corporate governance. Among the changes being discussed is a motion to slash the number of members from 106 to around 30, to make the company more manageable.Network Rail doesn’t have investors, [...]
Shake-up talks at Network Rail August 16, 2009 RICK Haythornthwaite, the chairman of Network Rail, is holding meetings with the company’s members throughout September and October to discuss changes to the group’s corporate governance. Among the changes being discussed is a motion to slash the number of members from 106 to around 30, to make the company more manageable.Network Rail doesn’t have investors, [...]
Keydata set to break bad news August 16, 2009 INVESTORS are preparing for bad news today from a creditors’ meeting at failed structured product firm Keydata, with the firm expected to say they will only get back “pennies in the pound” of their outlay. The 5,500 investors in Keydata’s Secure Income Bond products, which stopped making payouts after it emerged £103m that was supposed [...]
Keydata set to break bad news August 16, 2009 INVESTORS are preparing for bad news today from a creditors’ meeting at failed structured product firm Keydata, with the firm expected to say they will only get back “pennies in the pound” of their outlay. The 5,500 investors in Keydata’s Secure Income Bond products, which stopped making payouts after it emerged £103m that was supposed [...]
EMPLOYERS BEWARE AS CV FIBS ARE ON THE RISE August 16, 2009 READERS who have ever been tempted to “embellish” their CV will probably remember the story of disgraced hotel executive, Patrick Imbardelli, who lost everything he had worked for because of such an indiscretion. Imbardelli was forced to resign from his role as head of Asia Pacific at InterContinental Hotels in 2007, just weeks before he [...]
EMPLOYERS BEWARE AS CV FIBS ARE ON THE RISE August 16, 2009 READERS who have ever been tempted to “embellish” their CV will probably remember the story of disgraced hotel executive, Patrick Imbardelli, who lost everything he had worked for because of such an indiscretion. Imbardelli was forced to resign from his role as head of Asia Pacific at InterContinental Hotels in 2007, just weeks before he [...]
BILL OF THE WEEK August 16, 2009 OUR BILL this week comes from four diners who sampled the Chino-Latino delights at St Martin’s Lane Hotel’s Asia de Cuba restaurant this week – though you wouldn’t envy them the rum-induced headache the next day. After warming up with Latino cocktails and starters – including fusion-themed tuna, calamari and duck dishes – they moved [...]
BILL OF THE WEEK August 16, 2009 OUR BILL this week comes from four diners who sampled the Chino-Latino delights at St Martin’s Lane Hotel’s Asia de Cuba restaurant this week – though you wouldn’t envy them the rum-induced headache the next day. After warming up with Latino cocktails and starters – including fusion-themed tuna, calamari and duck dishes – they moved [...]