Cameron tells the City the UK still has clout on the world stage November 14, 2010 DAVID Cameron will tonight claim that Britain is still a great economic power, as he seeks to draw a line under the spending cuts and present an optimistic vision for the future. In his first speech to the Lord Mayor’s banquet, the Prime Minister will argue that the City’s status as a centre for global [...]
Mount Gay, Barbados: a tour round rum’s natural home January 30, 2011 THE heart of the Barbados rum trade is perched at the northernmost tip of this small Caribbean island. High in the mountains in the St Lucy district sits the Mount Gay refinery, surrounded by a nine feet tall sugar cane plantation and gazing out over wild Atlantic waves which crash into the Florida coast 1,600 [...]
More people should be The Apprentice February 6, 2011 WHEN the City opened its doors to the barrow boys of the East End – the wheeler dealer market traders who were first let loose on the London Stock Exchange in the 1980s – they were a roaring success. They had the drive, the hunger and the charisma to allow them to thrive in the [...]
More people should be The Apprentice February 6, 2011 WHEN the City opened its doors to the barrow boys of the East End – the wheeler dealer market traders who were first let loose on the London Stock Exchange in the 1980s – they were a roaring success. They had the drive, the hunger and the charisma to allow them to thrive in the [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING July 10, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES VIRGIN SEEKS US ROLE Virgin Trains is vying to play a role in the privatisation of the US rail industry in a move that could see it become the operator of the lucrative 457-mile route from Washington to Boston. Virgin, which already runs the profitable West Coast railway line between London and Glasgow [...]
The 9 projects that show the future of commercial space July 10, 2011 Office Space ACROSS the capital, thrilling new commercial buildings are springing up, from the City’s twenty-first century office towers to Europe’s largest urban shopping centre at Stratford. Andrew Deverell-Smith, managing director of property recruitment specialists Deverell Smith Recruitment, says “for those of us with so much at stake in the property industry, it is refreshing [...]
Top City gyms for losing that seasonal flab December 6, 2010 NUFFIELD HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE 4 Cousin Lane, EC4R 3XJ www.nuffieldhealth.com 0845 2413836 Membership: £82-£96 per month Partly situated in dramatic arches next to the river near Cannon Street station, this is the biggest gym in the Square Mile, with four studios, three gym areas, two swimming pools and two spa pools, one of which [...]
CAR TALK May 3, 2011 SPECIAL EDITION CATERHAM SEVENS British sportscar company Caterham Cars has been bought by Formula One outfit Team Lotus and to celebrate, the company is building a limited run of just 50 Team Lotus Special Edition Sevens. For an additional £3,000, Seven buyers can buy a car painted in the famous green and yellow colours of [...]
MP hits out at attacks on the City November 2, 2010 THE Square Mile’s local MP will today launch a rare but impassioned defence of the City and financial services, accusing the coalition of “playing to the gallery” to appeal to “general banker bashing sentiment”. Mark Field, the Conservative MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, will use a speech at Westminster Hall to hit [...]
BOBSLEIGH FANATIC TO INJECT CITY WITH SHOT OF ADRENALINE November 2, 2010 YEARNING for an unusual extra-curricular hobby to brighten up your working week? Addicted to adrenaline? The Capitalist might have chanced upon just the thing for more adventurous City types. Ian Barbour is best known for his position as director of financial printing group Millnet, where he runs the financial document services operations. Yet he’s just [...]