Zara Phillips knows a thing or two about relaxation. So if she favours a beautiful horsey resort in the rolling hills near Lisbon, it can’t be a bad place for us, either April 25, 2011 THESE are busy days for Zara Phillips, what with her wedding to rugby player Mike Tindall in July, her cousin Will’s nuptials this week and training to compete in next year’s Olympics. But judging by Zara’s choice of holiday home – a 220 sq m, four-bedroom villa with pool set on rolling Portuguese hills half [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT March 10, 2011 Education: Awash with good schools. St James’s Roman Catholic Primary School is rated “excellent” by Ofsted, as are St Saviour’s Grammar School and St Olave’s Grammar School for boys, and Darrick Wood School – a co-educational comprehensive. Parents of sporty kids may want to consider The Priory School, a specialist sports college. Crime: Rates are [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT March 10, 2011 Education: Awash with good schools. St James’s Roman Catholic Primary School is rated “excellent” by Ofsted, as are St Saviour’s Grammar School and St Olave’s Grammar School for boys, and Darrick Wood School – a co-educational comprehensive. Parents of sporty kids may want to consider The Priory School, a specialist sports college. Crime: Rates are [...]
Japanese food chain Wagamama to be sold for more than £200m March 8, 2011 JAPANESE noodle chain Wagamama is expected to be sold to private equity firm Duke Street Capital within the next two weeks, in a deal worth over £200m. The chain’s current owner, Lion Capital, is currently in talks with the firm with a view to striking a deal. Lion had looked to sell Wagamama earlier last [...]
Japanese food chain Wagamama to be sold for more than £200m March 8, 2011 JAPANESE noodle chain Wagamama is expected to be sold to private equity firm Duke Street Capital within the next two weeks, in a deal worth over £200m. The chain’s current owner, Lion Capital, is currently in talks with the firm with a view to striking a deal. Lion had looked to sell Wagamama earlier last [...]
THE MAN BRINGING CHELTENHAM TO THE SQUARE MILE NEXT WEEK March 9, 2011 IN 18 months, Simon Parker Bowles’s Cornhill restaurant, Green’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar, has become a firm City favourite, mixing time-honoured qualities – simple but sumptuous food, clubby surroundings, a very well-stocked cellar – with a theme that reflects Parker Bowles’s own particular passion: horse racing. The Runner Bar takes its name from the sport, [...]
THE MAN BRINGING CHELTENHAM TO THE SQUARE MILE NEXT WEEK March 9, 2011 IN 18 months, Simon Parker Bowles’s Cornhill restaurant, Green’s Restaurant & Oyster Bar, has become a firm City favourite, mixing time-honoured qualities – simple but sumptuous food, clubby surroundings, a very well-stocked cellar – with a theme that reflects Parker Bowles’s own particular passion: horse racing. The Runner Bar takes its name from the sport, [...]
ALL CHANGE AT LLOYD’S AS IT RINGS 25 YEARS May 26, 2011 IT MAY seem like only yesterday for many City veterans, but today marks 25 years since the first managing agents moved into the landmark Lloyd’s building on Lime Street. So happy anniversary to the insurance giant, which still shows traces of more than 300 years of Lloyd’s history, such as the famous Lutine Bell, which [...]
TRAVEL NOTES April 3, 2011 BYBLOS’S NEW SEASON PACKAGE To celebrate opening for the 2011 season, Saint Tropez’s most iconic hotel, Byblos, is offering a seductive package to entice early season weekenders. Enticements are indeed numerous, with an Alain Ducasse restaurant, Byni’z for tapas and cocktails by the pool, a luxurious Sisley spa, recently refurbished rooms and suites and the [...]
Greene King buys Cloverleaf January 31, 2011 GREENE King has bought the pub restaurant group Cloverleaf for £56m. Chief executive Rooney Anand (pictured) said the acquisition, combined with a planned investment of around £25m to open ten new Cloverleaf premises within two years, would utilise the remaining balance of its rights issue proceeds. The deal has added another 12 restaurants to Greene [...]