Utah: America’s secret scenic wonderland October 1, 2012 Touching down at Las Vegas airport at 9pm, we made a classic mistake. Predicting we’d be fine to drive the two-hour journey to our hotel after a refreshing Diet Coke and a few rounds of Blackjack at the Mandalay Bay, we didn’t expect to find ourselves deliriously sleep-deprived, jetlagged to the max and sans sat-nav, journeying [...]
As David Cameron completes the coalition’s first major reshuffle, will it prove successful? September 4, 2012 YES Alex Singleton Yesterday’s reshuffle will reinvigorate the government in three ways. First, by booting the ultra-liberal Ken Clarke out from Justice, David Cameron has regained control over a key part of government policy. Secondly, the fresh face at the Department for International Development, Justine Greening, will help shake up a department that continues to [...]
Strong first half puts Interserve back on track for the full year August 15, 2012 SUPPORT services and construction group Interserve yesterday reported half-year profit of eight per cent driven by strong performance in its British support services business. Pre-tax profit for the firm, whose services range from cleaning Sainsbury’s supermarkets to building Jaguar a new site in Coventry, came in at £32.6m in the six months to 30 June, [...]
Retail industry lays out £500m growth plans August 9, 2012 THE GOVERNMENT yesterday announced some £500m of investment in Britain’s consumer industries, as some of the sector’s largest players laid out expansion plans in the UK and overseas. Speaking at the British Business Embassy’s Retail, Food and Drink summit in London yesterday, Boots chairman Stefano Pessina said the pharmacist will expand its store estate in [...]
Inflation falls at last – but the damage has already been done June 20, 2012 AT last, Britain’s inflation problem is abating. Prices are still increasing too quickly – inflation remains at 3.1 per cent on the retail price index and 2.8 per cent on the consumer price index, painful as wages are growing far less quickly. But the direction of travel is reassuring. The Bank of England – by [...]
Inflation falls at last – but the damage has already been done June 19, 2012 AT last, Britain’s inflation problem is abating. Prices are still increasing too quickly – inflation remains at 3.1 per cent on the retail price index and 2.8 per cent on the consumer price index, painful as wages are growing far less quickly. But the direction of travel is reassuring. The Bank of England – by [...]
OLYMPIC MEDIA BUZZ LONDON 2012 PARTNERS July 22, 2012 IN ASSOCIATION with Repskan.com, City A.M. is measuring the relative Olympic media buzz around the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games partners, week by week. The leaderboard, right, reflects their ranking over the past week, in this case from Wednesday 11 July to Wednesday 18 July. Adidas has moved up the rankings this week, both [...]
No going back now for brave Shard abseilers September 2, 2012 THEY’VE been training, raising sponsorship funds, and getting increasingly more nervous for months, and today the day the intrepid Shard abseilers have been waiting for (or dreading) has finally arrived. From first light this morning – weather permitting – a diverse selection of adventurers, City daredevils, politician’s wives and even a member of the Royal family will [...]
A superlative-defying Range Rover October 30, 2012 I’ve only been driving Land Rover’s new Range Rover for five minutes and already I have had to swerve to avoid a man running down the motorway. Not across the motorway you understand but down it, as if he is pretending to be a car. Driving the new Range Rover in Morocco is challenging. Pedestrians [...]
Tamsin Grieg is stellar in Jumpy August 30, 2012 THEATRE JUMPY Duke of York Theatre | By Cathy Adams **** A whitewashed, bare room, a half-drunk glass of Chardonnay and a skylight. Welcome to peripheral Walthamstow, home to put-upon mother Hilary, stolid husband Mark and precocious teen Tilly. Tamsin Grieg, better known for her acerbic roles in Black Books and Green Wing, gives a [...]