A late night Tube is simple way to keep London competitive February 3, 2013 TRANSPORT for London has raised the prospect of the Underground running until 2am at weekends. Starting in 2015, this could deliver a signifciant boost to London’s £8bn a year dining, drinking and entertainment industry, and would provide a boon to the thousands of Londoners who flock to the West End for a night out. This [...]
A right royal coronation for the next generation of Pearly kings April 15, 2012 DESCENDANTS of one of the original families to adopt the tradition will be among those crowned as Pearly kings and queens next month. The new royalty of the City of London, the City of Westminster and the London boroughs will be crowned at the Carpenters Arms, a classic East End pub, on 6 May. The [...]
A right royal coronation for the next generation of Pearly kings April 15, 2012 DESCENDANTS of one of the original families to adopt the tradition will be among those crowned as Pearly kings and queens next month. The new royalty of the City of London, the City of Westminster and the London boroughs will be crowned at the Carpenters Arms, a classic East End pub, on 6 May. The [...]
Trinity Mirror stock tumbles as it is pulled into hacking scandal October 23, 2012 SHARES in Trinity Mirror slumped yesterday as the newspaper publisher became embroiled in the phone hacking scandal that has cost News International hundreds of millions of pounds. Trinity Mirror – which publishes the Daily and Sunday Mirror titles and the People newspaper – saw shares fall more than 10 per cent after it was alleged [...]
Daily Mirror hit by four phone hacking claims October 22, 2012 THE PHONE hacking scandal that brought down the News of the World threatened to pull in Mirror Group Newspapers yesterday, after four individuals reportedly issued High Court claims against the firm. Former England football manager Sven-Göran Eriksson and three others have filed claims alleging phone hacking at The Daily Mirror during Piers Morgan’s time as [...]
New brooms should not sweep aside Diamond’s achievements July 22, 2012 BARCLAYS is set to replace its two top positions from outside. That’s damaging in the short-term, because it means a longer process of transition rather than a swift coronation. Yet those who favour a pair of new brooms point to the longer-term, saying it will be a clean break with Bob Diamond’s controversial reign. There’s [...]
Romney risks being thrown off course by his blundering fellow Republican August 22, 2012 BEFORE primaries became the more common mechanism of selecting party nominees, the Republican National Convention served as the venue for delegates to wage their famous intra-party battles. Teddy Roosevelt stormed out in 1912 to form the Progressive Party, the moderate Dwight Eisenhower trumped the conservative Robert Taft in 1952, an ideological battle that Barry Goldwater [...]
The FF is a supermodel on steroids August 28, 2012 Ferrari doesn’t tend to do things by halves. When it launched its FF model – the first four-wheel-drive in its history – it did so by having its two F1 racing drivers drive it at the top of Plan De Corones in the Dolomites at 2,350 metres. It’s fair to say, then, that Ferrari is [...]
The fall of Bob Diamond: How tragedy can stalk even the most powerful July 5, 2012 FOR God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings.” Anyone who caught the BBC’s dramatisation of William Shakespeare’s Richard II at the weekend will have seen not only one of the City’s historic buildings featuring prominently – St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield – but also [...]
Stoute will be over the Moon to win his sixth King George July 19, 2012 TOMORROW’S Group One highlight, and next round of the QIPCO British Champions Series, the King George VΙ and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (4.35pm), is one of the most prestigious middle-distance races in the calendar and the Ascot showpiece is often the first time the Classic generation step up and meet their older counterparts. Although there is [...]