HOW TO GET DRESSED November 10, 2011 FOUNDERS OF ROUS ILAND MEMBERS’ BOUTIQUE Q.I head up a team at work. I like wearing pencil skirts but how can I be sure to avoid the “sexy secretary” look? A.In less emancipated times, when women were restricted to purely junior support roles, the pencil skirt was a woman’s key work-wear piece. In the 80s [...]
Capital Shopping Centres secures new debt facility November 21, 2011 CAPITAL Shopping Centres (CSC), the UK’s biggest mall owner, has secured a £375m credit facility from a consortium of five banks to help provide “general liquidity” to the company. The owner of Manchester’s Trafford Centre and the MetroCentre in Gateshead said yesterday that the revolving facility would replace a previous, undrawn £248m facility that was [...]
Capital Shopping Centres secures new debt facility November 21, 2011 CAPITAL Shopping Centres (CSC), the UK’s biggest mall owner, has secured a £375m credit facility from a consortium of five banks to help provide “general liquidity” to the company. The owner of Manchester’s Trafford Centre and the MetroCentre in Gateshead said yesterday that the revolving facility would replace a previous, undrawn £248m facility that was [...]
Olympic spotlight won’t daunt British star Halsall December 19, 2011 WERE medals being handed out for enthusiasm alone, Fran Halsall would surely threaten Michael Phelps’s record eight-gold haul in Beijing at next summer’s London Olympics. As an exceptionally talented 21-year-old athlete, of whom much is expected, the Southport-born swimmer could be forgiven were she to feel a sense of trepidation ahead of the biggest eight [...]
Olympic spotlight won’t daunt British star Halsall December 19, 2011 WERE medals being handed out for enthusiasm alone, Fran Halsall would surely threaten Michael Phelps’s record eight-gold haul in Beijing at next summer’s London Olympics. As an exceptionally talented 21-year-old athlete, of whom much is expected, the Southport-born swimmer could be forgiven were she to feel a sense of trepidation ahead of the biggest eight [...]
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED AS MARK HIX MOVES INTO BELGRAVES HOTEL December 12, 2011 THE RUMOURS have been swirling around the leisure industry for months, and Thompson Hotels yesterday confirmed that chef Mark Hix will run the restaurant and bar at its new hotel launch Belgraves, due to open in January. The 80-seat Hix Belgravia, the chef’s fourth restaurant, will offer a menu inspired by his travels around the [...]
More choice for clearing house trades August 16, 2011 EUROPE’S biggest clearing houses will this morning announce plans to offer coordinated four-way clearing to their members, in a move designed to streamline the process and improve competition. EMCF, EuroCCP, LCH Clearnet and SIX x-clear will collaborate to offer a full clearing choice by 1 January 2012, subject to regulatory approval. Full interoperability will be [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEK FILMS, MUSIC, GAMES August 25, 2011 FILM AS BLOOD RUNS DEEP Intriguing crime drama starring Nick Stahl as a cop investigating a murder. FINAL DESTINATION 5 The sci-fi series enters the 3D sphere in this special effects fest. HIT FIRST, HIT HARDEST Gritty, if hardly original, prison caper from Denmark. DVD LITTLE WHITE Lies French drama starring Marion Cottilard and Francois [...]
Wall St rallies on Europe but Apple disappoints after hours October 18, 2011 US stocks surged late in trading yesterday as buyers latched onto another report of agreements to strengthen the euro zone’s rescue fund to bid up stocks aggressively. All three major indexes rose sharply after the Guardian newspaper said France and Germany will increase the euro zone’s rescue fund to €2 trillion as part of a [...]
Torrid August to bring gains for exchanges September 4, 2011 THE turmoil to hit Europe’s equity markets in August brought unexpected gains for equity trading platforms as trading volume and turnover soared, data has showed. Chi-X Europe, Europe’s biggest alternative trading platform, said August had been “an all-time record month” as it traded €222.7bn (£196.6bn) of equities, almost a fifth more than its previous record [...]