WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 9, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Morgan Stanley sheds staff as transactions fall Morgan Stanley will this week complete a round of job cuts that will ultimately see the company shed 100 sales and trading staff, underscoring what is expected to prove a dismal second quarter for Wall Street banks. The cuts are across Europe, the Middle East and [...]
Go and see this great British comedy November 29, 2012 FILM SIGHTSEERS Cert 15 **** SITCOM STALWARTS Alice Lowe and Steve Oram star in Sightseers, the new comedy from feted indie director, Ben Wheatley. The pair play fledgling lovebirds Chris and Tina, who desert Tina’s vindictive mother Carol and set out on a road trip across England’s green and pleasant land in their treasured Abbey [...]
Hel-Yeah January 13, 2013 YOU can’t see much from the back of a twin-engine Bell 212 helicopter when it’s packed with eleven adventurous skiers. Resembling ski-masked marines on a mission, we sit opposite each other, tightly buckled into our seats as we fly through the Canadian Rockies in spectacular fashion. Heli-skiing is the ultimate off-piste, backcountry skiing experience, in [...]
UK Coal split in two as mines face reckoning December 10, 2012 UK COAL is giving its mining business, once the bedrock of British industry, a “final chance” of survival, after completing a radical restructure of the company yesterday saving it from imminent bankruptcy. The former state-owned behemoth yesterday completed plans to split into a privately owned property company called Harworth Estates Property Group Ltd and a [...]
Rapid responses December 18, 2012 Corporation tax [Re: Politicians are powerless to curb our shrinking corporate tax base, yesterday] Douglas Carswell argues that, through international property migration, it is unavoidable that big corporations will mitigate their tax liabilities. But the sad consequence is that the only people who end up paying more is us, the financially immobile taxpayers. Something must [...]
An unwanted hotel surprise in Kyrgyzstan hotel room November 21, 2012 Anot-so-jolly work jolly for an intrepid pair from City financial services firm Merchant Securities, who jetted off to Central Asia recently. Chris Theis, head of international sales and research at Merchant Securities, and his mining analyst colleague Kurt Burge, recently returned to British soil (no doubt kissing the ground at Heathrow when they landed) after [...]
Branson ups the stakes in flight wars November 18, 2012 VIRGIN Atlantic is hoping to break British Airways’ traditional dominance of UK short haul air travel, after being picked to take over a dozen slots at Heathrow Airport. Virgin confirmed today that it will offer flights to Aberdeen and Edinburgh next year, using the slots that BA has been forced to give up on competition [...]
DEBENHAMS TAKES EXTRA SPACE IN LONDON May 1, 2012 DEBENHAMS has agreed to pre-let an extra 29,500 sq ft of office space at British Land’s Regent’s Place development near Warren Street station. The retailer said in September it planned to move its headquarters to the scheme on Brock Street, due to be completed in 12 months. The deal for a 25-year term takes Debenhams’ [...]
Rolls-Royce signs hovercraft deal October 22, 2012 ■ Rolls-Royce yesterday announced it had won a contract to power a future fleet of US Navy hovercrafts. The British firm will work with Textron Marine & Land Systems in a scheme that could produce up to 73 new generation craft. Each hovercraft will use a Rolls-Royce MT7 gas turbine, derived from the AE1107 engine, [...]
Rolls-Royce signs hovercraft deal October 22, 2012 ■ Rolls-Royce yesterday announced it had won a contract to power a future fleet of US Navy hovercrafts. The British firm will work with Textron Marine & Land Systems in a scheme that could produce up to 73 new generation craft. Each hovercraft will use a Rolls-Royce MT7 gas turbine, derived from the AE1107 engine, [...]