FOCUS ON: BRENTWOOD, ESSEX June 3, 2010 WARLEYS LEA, WARLEY ROAD, GREAT WARLEY, CM13 3HT Price: £3.75m Architectural connoisseurs will love this early 19th century house that was remodelled by Sir Edwin Lutyens. It is ideally located just 1.25 miles from Brentwood railway station – around 30 minutes by train from Liverpool Street. Of particular note is the Jacobean staircase that Lutyens [...]
PIMCO’S GROSS LOWERS THE TONE WITH A TOUCH OF TOILET HUMOUR July 28, 2010 FULL marks to Pimco managing director Bill Gross, who has excelled even his own high standards of witty repartee in his latest Investment Outlook newsletter. The most recent missive is dedicated to none other than the humble toilet – more specifically, the advent of electronic “eye” sensors in place of a manual flushing system. “It’s [...]
Calvert in battle over payback April 21, 2010 JAILED Cazenove partner Malcolm Calvert will learn his financial fate this week as lawyers prepare to battle in court over how much the convicted banker will pay back to the government for his illegal activity. The Southwark Crown Court will decide what proportion of the £103,883 in profits the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said Calvert [...]
BA’s image recovers from threat of strike action January 5, 2010 JOHN Lewis yesterday announced strong Christmas sales – and certainly from the BrandIndex satisfaction scores, it seems that Waitrose customers were satisfied with their Christmas shopping. Graph One shows the scores of six leading supermarkets for the month of December. A PR DISASTER British Airways, meanwhile, had a disastrous December on the PR front. Strikes [...]
PwC fights to get cash for FlyGlobespan January 5, 2010 ADMINISTRATORS of collapsed Scottish airline FlyGlobespan are taking legal action against a firm responsible for the carrier’s online ticket sales. PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is pressing ahead with a High Court petition filed around the time when the airline entered administration last month to force E-Clear to reveal whether it holds £35m withheld from the carrier. A [...]
Nokia win proves that IP is taking centre stage January 19, 2010 EARLIER this week, mobile phone maker Nokia won a legal case against German intellectual property company IPCom in the High Court in London. The court ruled that Nokia does not have to pay IPCom to use the technology for which it owns patents. IPCom is one of the intellectual property (IP) companies known as “patent [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 31, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES CHINA TOLD PROPERTY RISK IS WORSE THAN IN US The problems in China’s housing market are more severe than those in the US before the financial crisis because they combine a potential bubble with the risk of social discontent, according to an adviser to the Chinese central bank. Li Daokui, a professor at [...]
More agony for Murray as classy Ferrer takes no mercy in Rome April 29, 2010 ANDY MURRAY’S recent woes continued after he crashed out to Spain’s David Ferrer in the third round of the Rome Masters last night. The world No5 dropped a service game in each set to go down 6-3, 6-4 to the 13th seed and succumb to his fourth defeat in five ATP Tour matches. Murray, 22, [...]
New watchdog won’t scare City June 23, 2010 IT is only just over a year since Hector Sants, head of the Financial Services (FSA), told the City in no uncertain terms that he wanted business to be “very frightened” of his organisation. Central to that warning ran the theme of “credible deterrence” through increased criminal prosecution, particularly in relation to insider dealing. Despite [...]
New watchdog won’t scare City June 23, 2010 IT is only just over a year since Hector Sants, head of the Financial Services (FSA), told the City in no uncertain terms that he wanted business to be “very frightened” of his organisation. Central to that warning ran the theme of “credible deterrence” through increased criminal prosecution, particularly in relation to insider dealing. Despite [...]