ST ALBANS November 17, 2011 MEADOW LODGE, HAMMONDS LANE Price: £2.5m This property, encompassing grounds of 8.5 acres, includes a swimming pool, tennis court, stabling and a garaging area. The property itself has five bedrooms, five reception rooms and two bedrooms. Contact: Savills on 01582 465 000 or go to www.savills.co.uk ST STEPHENS HOUSE Price: £1.295m This grade-II listed Georgian [...]
ST ALBANS November 17, 2011 MEADOW LODGE, HAMMONDS LANE Price: £2.5m This property, encompassing grounds of 8.5 acres, includes a swimming pool, tennis court, stabling and a garaging area. The property itself has five bedrooms, five reception rooms and two bedrooms. Contact: Savills on 01582 465 000 or go to www.savills.co.uk ST STEPHENS HOUSE Price: £1.295m This grade-II listed Georgian [...]
Santander chairman and family face a tax probe June 16, 2011 EMILIO Botin, the chairman of Santander, the Eurozone’s largest bank, and his family face a probe into their tax affairs, Spain’s High Court said yesterday. An official investigation into the tax contributions of brothers Emilio and Jaime Botin, along with their 10 children, was opened before the case, which dates back to 2005, exceeded the [...]
Santander chairman and family face a tax probe June 16, 2011 EMILIO Botin, the chairman of Santander, the Eurozone’s largest bank, and his family face a probe into their tax affairs, Spain’s High Court said yesterday. An official investigation into the tax contributions of brothers Emilio and Jaime Botin, along with their 10 children, was opened before the case, which dates back to 2005, exceeded the [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS July 20, 2011 Hamptons International The property consultant has appointed Giles Maude (pictured) and Graham Jones to its development land team, reporting to head of land Simon Grier-Jones. Maude joins the firm’s Southern Home Counties division as an associate in the Esher office, and Jones will lead the Cotswold and West team as an associate director in Cheltenham. [...]
Big banks top High Court appearances October 3, 2010 THE UK’S largest four banks were repeatedly in court last year as the number of High Court cases involving FTSE 100 companies jumped by 16 per cent. Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and HSBC collectively made up 43 per cent of all High Court appearances by the UK’s largest companies, [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING August 14, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES FEARS RAISED AS “LACK OF CAUTION” FUELS COMMERCIAL PROPERTY VALUES Commercial real estate values have been spurred by a “lack of caution” on the back of an “astonishing” rebound in lending to the sector, according to one of the largest global fund managers. LaSalle Investment e, which manages $45bn (£27bn) of real estate [...]
Robert Tchenguiz challenges SFO May 17, 2011 Entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz yesterday challenged the Serious Fraud Office over his arrest earlier this year. He filed a judicial review at the High Court, branding his arrest “unlawful, aggressive and disproportionate”. Robert and his brother Vincent were arrested in searches related to the SFO’s investigation into the collapse of Icelandic bank Kaupthing.
Too many children are being taken into care: the Baby P witch hunters are to blame February 9, 2012 WHEN Sharon Shoesmith, the former director of Haringey Children’s Services, became the scapegoat for the death of Peter Connelly or “Baby P”, almost everyone joined the witch hunt. The media went for her with a viciousness that knew no bounds while Ed Balls, then Children’s Secretary, took the unprecedented step of ordering her dismissal (unfairly, [...]
EBay to open a pop-up shop for Christmas November 17, 2011 ONLINE retailer eBay is to open a Christmas “pop-up” store in London’s busiest shopping district. The store, located on Dean Street – a stone’s throw away from Oxford Street – will not directly sell anything but will feature display models with codes customers can scan with their smartphone if they want to make a purchase. [...]