Crossrail chooses building shortlist for four stations April 19, 2011 CROSSRAIL management has picked a shortlist of companies to build four stations on the new pan-London railway, bringing the chosen construction firms closer to work worth nearly £1bn. A joint bid by Costain and Skanska has won a place on the shortlist for all four stations, while rivals including Laing O’Rourke, Ferrovial, Lend Lease and [...]
HARTSON: YOUNG BOSS BETTER FOR WEST HAM June 6, 2011 Ex- Hammers striker insists club should have hired an up-and-coming manager instead of Allardyce FORMER West Ham star John Hartson believes the east London club have made a mistake in appointing Sam Allardyce as boss, insisting they should have put their faith in a young up-and-coming manager. Barcelona gambled on the inexperienced Pep Guardiola three [...]
HARTSON: YOUNG BOSS BETTER FOR WEST HAM June 6, 2011 Ex- Hammers striker insists club should have hired an up-and-coming manager instead of Allardyce FORMER West Ham star John Hartson believes the east London club have made a mistake in appointing Sam Allardyce as boss, insisting they should have put their faith in a young up-and-coming manager. Barcelona gambled on the inexperienced Pep Guardiola three [...]
Mace wins contract to build London’s cable car April 17, 2011 BUILDERS will start work on a cable car across the Thames during the summer, the Mayor of London Boris Johnson confirmed today. Mace, the construction group that built the London Eye, will lead the work on the route linking Greenwich to the Royal Victoria Docks that is set to cost more than £40m. Mace will [...]
Broadgate: symbol of red tape Britain June 6, 2011 ON the face of it, it is hardly a major story that English Heritage wants to list the Broadgate office and retail estate in the City, a rather ugly 1980s construct in desperate need of modernisation. It is, however, a deeply symbolic move that confirms not only that Britain isn’t open for business but that [...]
Broadgate: symbol of red tape Britain June 5, 2011 ON the face of it, it is hardly a major story that English Heritage wants to list the Broadgate office and retail estate in the City, a rather ugly 1980s construct in desperate need of modernisation. It is, however, a deeply symbolic move that confirms not only that Britain isn’t open for business but that [...]
Allied Irish Bank’s losses soar in 2010 April 12, 2011 ALLIED Irish Bank is to slash more than 2,000 jobs following annual results yesterday showing that it lost a staggering €12bn (£10.6bn) pre-tax last year due to ongoing toxic property loans. The loss is a more than four-fold increase on 2009. The bank reported an impairment rate of 28 per cent in its property and [...]
Recovery enters an uncertain phase June 2, 2011 FOR the first time for almost 18 months, I’m worried about the economic recovery. A number of key UK and global indicators released yesterday suggest that the Western nations are slowing again, with Britain not immune from the bad news. The biggest change seems to be a slowdown in manufacturing: after powering the global bounce-back [...]
Recovery enters an uncertain phase June 2, 2011 FOR the first time for almost 18 months, I’m worried about the economic recovery. A number of key UK and global indicators released yesterday suggest that the Western nations are slowing again, with Britain not immune from the bad news. The biggest change seems to be a slowdown in manufacturing: after powering the global bounce-back [...]
Candy bros see £4m loss April 3, 2011 CANDY & Candy, the interior design and property development firm owned by Nick and Christian Candy, slipped to a £4.4m loss in 2010, its accounts showed yesterday. The firm fell to a £4.4m pre-tax loss in the year to the end of June last year from a £2.2m profit in 2009 after sales plummeted to [...]