Brits cut back on holidays but tourism to UK hits record high July 12, 2012 RECORD numbers of tourists landed in the UK in the 12 months to May, official data showed yesterday. Yet the number of Britons holidaying abroad fell compared to the previous year, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed. Brits’ holiday visits in the year to May totalled 35.9m, down three per cent on the previous [...]
A tale of two property developers January 25, 2012 BUILD it and they will come. That was the mantra which underpinned speculative developments during the boom years. These days it’s more like “show me the tenants and I’ll show you the money”. Without a confirmed pre-let, it’s awfully difficult for smaller developers to get funding, hence why work on the so-called Helter Skelter has [...]
A tale of two property developers January 25, 2012 BUILD it and they will come. That was the mantra which underpinned speculative developments during the boom years. These days it’s more like “show me the tenants and I’ll show you the money”. Without a confirmed pre-let, it’s awfully difficult for smaller developers to get funding, hence why work on the so-called Helter Skelter has [...]
India 10 years on: The rise of a tourism superpower November 11, 2012 INDIA DRAMATICALLY straddles the ancient and modern worlds: as well as having a space programme, it is home to layers of ancient civilisations, leaving an intricate cultural legacy. But an under-developed service sector used to make it difficult to enjoy India as a holidaymaker. I wanted to find out if the tourist industry was keeping [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS February 20, 2012 Royal Bank of Scotland RBS has appointed Stuart Dean as head of healthcare in the corporate and institutional banking (CIB) team. Dean has worked at RBS for more than 11 years in the bank’s structured finance division in the south of England and London. Before joining RBS, he spent two years at the John Lewis [...]
Expect Fabre’s Golden Lilac to flower at Newmarket July 12, 2012 ANDRE Fabre is quite rightly recognised as one of the greatest trainers of all time and it is always worth sitting up and taking notice when he sends his horses over to these shores. He runs the four-year-old filly GOLDEN LILAC in this afternoon’s Group One Falmouth Stakes (3.00pm) and she is strongly fancied to [...]
Work on the Pinnacle halts again amid tenant drought January 25, 2012 WORK HAS stopped on the Pinnacle skyscraper on Bishopsgate for a second time, as the developer struggles to find enough pre-let tenants. Construction officially halted last week with the tower just seven storeys high. However, City sources say work had been very slow over recent months, making possible tenants more reluctant to consider the building. [...]
Women now make up a quarter of new FTSE board members March 12, 2012 A QUARTER of new FTSE 100 board hires made in 2011 were female, research will reveal this morning, in a new record that highlights a dramatic change at the top of Britain’s largest companies. Of the 190 appointments made to FTSE 100 boards during 2011, 47 were women, boosting the total number of female-held directorships [...]
Big Anthony refuses to rush after winning boxing’s golden ticket August 12, 2012 BOXER Anthony Joshua last night vowed to resist big money offers to turn professional after giving Great Britain a fittingly triumphant finale to the London 2012 Olympic Games. Joshua beat Italian Roberto Cammarelle in a dramatic super-heavyweight final at the ExCeL to claim Team GB’s 29th and final gold of an incredibly successful fortnight. The [...]
Government slams the brakes on Peugeot’s drive for change July 25, 2012 THE creation of 1,100 new jobs in the West Midlands by Jaguar Land Rover shows the British car industry continuing to accelerate. It’s also another reminder of just how far JLR has come from the dark days of 2009, when it instituted a four-day week to avoid job cuts and looked to the European Investment [...]