IS THE UK REALLY OPEN FOR BUSINESS, MR CAMERON? IF SO… DON’T LIST BROADGATE June 5, 2011 CITY A.M. today launches a campaign against proposals to give listed building status to the Square Mile’s Broadgate estate, and calls on the government to prove the UK is open for business by rejecting the plans. If the government decides to list the 1980s site then plans to redevelop it into a new headquarters for investment [...]
BARRED: MOBILE BOSS TALKS HIS WAY INTO HIS OWN GLASTO PARTY June 30, 2011 IF YOUR name’s not down, you’re coming in – not even if your name is Tom Alexander, chief executive of Everything Everywhere, and you are trying to get in to your own party at Glastonbury. As the other partygoers got stuck in to the free drinks inside the VIP farmhouse rented by the mobile phone [...]
BARRED: MOBILE BOSS TALKS HIS WAY INTO HIS OWN GLASTO PARTY June 30, 2011 IF YOUR name’s not down, you’re coming in – not even if your name is Tom Alexander, chief executive of Everything Everywhere, and you are trying to get in to your own party at Glastonbury. As the other partygoers got stuck in to the free drinks inside the VIP farmhouse rented by the mobile phone [...]
Hunt call for end to cash row March 27, 2011 OLYMPICS: Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for an end to the cash row between the British Olympic Association and 2012 organisers Locog
Hunt call for end to cash row March 27, 2011 OLYMPICS: Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for an end to the cash row between the British Olympic Association and 2012 organisers Locog
BETFRED WINS THE RACE FOR THE TOTE June 2, 2011 BOOKMAKER Betfred will today be named as the preferred bidder to buy the Tote, the state-owned betting pool, City A.M. can confirm. The firm is believed to have beaten a rival approach from former Liverpool Football Club chairman Sir Martin Broughton’s Sports Investment Partners (SIP) vehicle, in a deal that values the Tote at more [...]
BETFRED WINS THE RACE FOR THE TOTE June 2, 2011 BOOKMAKER Betfred will today be named as the preferred bidder to buy the Tote, the state-owned betting pool, City A.M. can confirm. The firm is believed to have beaten a rival approach from former Liverpool Football Club chairman Sir Martin Broughton’s Sports Investment Partners (SIP) vehicle, in a deal that values the Tote at more [...]
Decision on Murdoch Sky bid is delayed May 9, 2011 RUPERT Murdoch will have to wait a little longer to get his hands on the rest of BSkyB. The decision to clear News Corp’s impending £7.5bn bid for the 61 per cent of Sky it does not already own has been delayed for at least two weeks while details of the concession to spin-off Sky [...]
Broadgate victory is great first step June 15, 2011 IT is merely a small, symbolic victory in a much bigger battle against red tape but it is great news that Jeremy Hunt will today announce that he won’t be listing Broadgate Estate, as we reveal on our front page. English Heritage’s indefensible bid to protect this unexceptional complex around Liverpool Street station, built in [...]
Broadgate victory is great first step June 14, 2011 IT is merely a small, symbolic victory in a much bigger battle against red tape but it is great news that Jeremy Hunt will today announce that he won’t be listing Broadgate Estate, as we reveal on our front page. English Heritage’s indefensible bid to protect this unexceptional complex around Liverpool Street station, built in [...]