Why Am I So Single? review: Six the Musical creators return with the most fun new show in the West End
Hammerson and Westfield call truce in battle for Croydon January 17, 2013 AUSTRALIAN mall owner Westfield Group has made peace with Anglo-French developer Hammerson in a long-running battle over an ageing Croydon shopping centre, agreeing to redevelop it together. The two have been wrangling for over a year about the Whitgift Centre in Croydon whose owners sided with both developers on the right to redevelop the site, [...]
City Moves for 15 February 2013 | Who’s switching jobs February 14, 2013 CBRE The property firm has appointed Andrew Peacock as head of central London asset management. He joins after 24 years at Aviva Investors, where he held a number of senior roles, including manager of its central London office portfolio. Towers Watson The professional services company has appointed Liz Rennie as senior consultant in its human [...]
Any Other Business – 26/07 July 25, 2013 Alas, the Royal baby was not named Prince Boris. But the Mayor of London did weigh in on the choice of George for the baby boy on the radio yesterday, alluding that a nod to the chancellor George Osborne was unlikely: “I won’t say it's in honour of the economic recovery, which is gathering pace. [...]
Rising lending sparks surge in house prices August 12, 2013 THE PROPERTY market is steaming ahead of the rest of the economy, as mortgage lending and a surge of buyers in July drive the UK’s emerging recovery. Figures revealed today show that July saw the largest rise in house prices since before the crash, after statistics out yesterday confirmed that lending to first-time buyers [...]
London Report: Shell and Barratt push FTSE upward to seven-week high April 30, 2014 THE UK’S blue-chip share index set a seven-week high yesterday, lifted by a rally in energy stocks after solid results from Royal Dutch Shell, although tensions in Ukraine and poor US growth data capped gains. Shares in Shell gained 3.7 per cent, adding the most points to the FTSE 100 index, after the Anglo-Dutch company [...]
Exclusive: Beat USA and British Davis Cup run is on, says Rusedski September 18, 2013 GREAT Britain can mount a genuine challenge for a first Davis Cup in 80 years if they can overcome a tricky tie against the United States, says former British No1 Greg Rusedski. The nine-time champions have not passed round one of the World Group since current standard-bearer Andy Murray was born, and will have to [...]
Artificially limiting rises in house prices will do more harm than good September 15, 2013 ECONOMISTS should be humbled by Friedrich Hayek’s famous plea: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” If only government and central banks – and those who lobby them – realised how little good came from their proposed interventions, and how [...]
Inside Track: Tesco executives ponder a spin-off for Asian business September 11, 2013 IT’S hardly on the scale of Royal Bank of Scotland, but Tesco’s retrenchment from the empire-building of Sir Terry Leahy means it will soon struggle to describe itself using the adjective “global”. Fresh from its exit from Japan, a retreat into a joint venture in China and this week’s announcement of the part-sale, part-closure of [...]
London Report: Syrian tension drags bank and mining stocks August 27, 2013 FINANCIALS and miners dragged Britain’s FTSE 100 lower yesterday as tensions in Syria and prospects of stimulus withdrawal by the US Federal Reserve crimped risk appetite. Reopening after a public holiday, London’s blue-chip shed 51.13 points, or 0.8 per cent to 6,440.97, costing the index all the previous session’s gains, albeit in low volumes. Crisis [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 04 September 2013 September 3, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES City grandee countersues ENRC Sir Paul Judge, the City grandee and former board member of ENRC, is counter-suing the miner for alleged libel in the latest twist in the legal battle between the parties. Judge alleges that a press release published by ENRC in July stating that it was suing him for alleged [...]