FOCUS ON: BATTERSEA April 19, 2012 PRINCE OF WALES DRIVE Price: £3.15m This semi-detached home features a large master bedroom and four additional double bedrooms. Outside there is a garden and a patio, ideal for outdoor dining. Close to Battersea Park, this spacious house is perfect for a family. Contact Savills on 0203 402 1900 PAGE MEWS Price: From £1.15m These [...]
FOCUS ON: BATTERSEA April 19, 2012 PRINCE OF WALES DRIVE Price: £3.15m This semi-detached home features a large master bedroom and four additional double bedrooms. Outside there is a garden and a patio, ideal for outdoor dining. Close to Battersea Park, this spacious house is perfect for a family. Contact Savills on 0203 402 1900 PAGE MEWS Price: From £1.15m These [...]
Spurs ponder legal action over OPLC spying claims November 8, 2011 TOTTENHAM chiefs were last night considering taking legal action after they were accused of systematic and widespread spying on all 14 of the men and women who decide the fate of the Olympic Stadium. On an extraordinary day of developments in the long-running row over the fate of the new London 2012 arena, the chair [...]
CITY VIEWS: IS IT BECOMING UNAFFORDABLE TO RENT PROPERTY IN LONDON?* February 16, 2012 MIKE JOHNSON | 2 PUMP COURT “Renting in London is very expensive. I don’t live in London myself, so I’m not a sufferer, but it is a problem I’ve noticed among my friends. I think, in particular, with the Olympics coming up this summer in London there have definitely been price hikes when it comes [...]
Everyone is building an app – but it’s not that easy to be like Facebook May 3, 2012 YOU know there’s a stock market bubble when the shoeshine boy starts giving you stock tips. In the same way, I can’t help but think there’s plenty of froth in digital right now, because everyone I know is building an app. As Facebook heads for its IPO on 18 May, which could value the company [...]
Everyone is building an app – but it’s not that easy to be like Facebook May 3, 2012 YOU know there’s a stock market bubble when the shoeshine boy starts giving you stock tips. In the same way, I can’t help but think there’s plenty of froth in digital right now, because everyone I know is building an app. As Facebook heads for its IPO on 18 May, which could value the company [...]
Central Rand Gold to appeal against the cancellation of its mining rights September 28, 2011 LONDON-listed gold miner Central Rand Gold said yesterday it would take an appeal against the cancellation of its mining rights to the high court in Pretoria. Shares in the company recovered slightly from sharp losses in Tuesday’s trading yesterday, after it said it would apply for interdictory relief, which would allow it to continue operations [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING April 18, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Ackman plans listing for $4bn fund Pershing Square Capital, the $11bn hedge fund run by high-profile US activist investor Bill Ackman, is planning a $4bn public flotation for a new fund in January 2013. Ackman intends to float the vehicle, which has already been set up in Guernsey and is known as Pershing [...]
Irish Life & Permanent losses widen April 2, 2012 Irish Life & Permanent’s banking arm reported a wider full-year loss due to soaring impairment charges ahead of a split from the group’s life division and a government decision on whether it can remain as a standalone lender. Once lauded as the only Irish lender to avoid a state bailout due to its lack of [...]
All aboard: the QM2 does the Atlantic in style June 10, 2012 LEAVING the glamorous glitzy Big Apple on a big glitzy ship felt right. Berthed in the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, the sharp-prowed Queen Mary 2 looked both huge and majestic. On our taxi ride to the terminal our driver bypassed the anti-capitalist demonstrators in Wall Street, so named for the barrier the Dutch built in the [...]