Overseas raiders ready to take Ascot by storm June 12, 2011 THIS year’s Royal Ascot will be more cosmopolitan and international than ever before with the arrival of arguably the strongest raiding party ever assembled. Tomorrow’s King’s Stand Stakes, possibly the world’s premier five furlong sprint, is packed full of horses from around the globe. The Barry Hills-trained Equiano broke a five-year sequence of non-British trained [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING April 18, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES UKRAINE’S RICHEST MAN SNAPS UP A WINDOW ON HYDE PARK FOR £136M Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, has bought the UK’s most expensive flat at the One Hyde Park residential development in London’s Knightsbridge. Akhmetov was behind the purchase of the penthouse, which sold for £136.6m. The identities of buyers at One Hyde [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING June 20, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES ASTRAZENECA TO OFFLOAD SWEDISH DIVISION AstraZeneca is in final talks to sell Astra Tech, the Swedish healthcare and dental business, to Dentsply International in a deal that could value the group at about $1.8bn (£1.1bn). The US dental equipment maker has outbid other potential buyers, including private equity group EQT Partners and medical [...]
Lavishness amid the lonely splendour of the Welsh coast May 22, 2011 SOUTH Wales is home to a duality like nowhere else in the British Isles. It’s a land of timeless verdancy, endless summers and persistent rain. It’s a land torn apart by poverty, and before that the machinery of heavy industry. It is also my favourite place on earth. On the train eastwards from Swansea, this [...]
Jaguar Land Rover delivers a vote of confidence in Britain March 2, 2011 CAR manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover has handed out more than £2bn in supply contracts under new plans revealed yesterday. Owned by Indian carmaker Tata Motors, the company has signed deals with more than 40 British suppliers in order to produce its new Range Rover Evoque vehicle. The move will create thousands of jobs, which will [...]
A motoring show for Londoners June 7, 2011 As a car hack I have spent an awful lot of time at international motor shows over the years. Sure they can be hard work, they’re often very busy and can get too big to afford you a really good overview on what’s going on. Ideally, it’s good to see rival cars close together to [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 8, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES UBS FEARS MISSING AMBITIOUS TARGETS UBS bankers have privately conceded that the Swiss financial services group is unlikely to meet ambitious performance targets as it realigns its business in response to new rules on capital. Oswald Grübel, chief executive, surprised analysts last month by maintaining his medium-term goals of SFr20bn (£14bn) in annual [...]
Polo’s biggest star set to wow the crowds at Ham June 29, 2011 When the chance comes along to see the Argentine Adolfo Cambiaso play polo, women across the city race to the field. Widely considered the most gorgeous man in sport, the Jaeger-LeCoultre model is also one of the most talented (he used to model more but rumour has it he found it too boring). He summers [...]
CHARLIE BICK IS COMEBACK KING AS X FACTOR DEFEAT OPENS DOORS April 26, 2011 THEY thought it was all over for the singing career of Charlie Bick, the son of Square1 Consulting’s chairman David Bick, who was voted off the Chilean version of the X Factor after just two live performances. Not for long however, as the next morning Charlie Bick – who this column first reported on on [...]
British Land secures 465,000 square feet of London lettings as market turns March 31, 2010 RECESSION-HIT London remains a magnet for office occupiers, property company British Land showed yesterday, after announcing 465,000 square feet of new lettings since February, hiking its occupancy to 92 per cent. The real estate investment trust said it had let 117,000 square feet at its 10 Triton Street project in London’s West End to Aegis [...]