BBC fights back on local news sharing June 1, 2009 TALKS between the BBC and ITV to create a cost-cutting regional news partnership have hit a stumbling block, with the BBC disputing operating cost estimates provided by the broadcasting regulator, Ofcom. Ofcom has said that a basic schedule for the service would cost between £40m and £60m a year, with a fuller service costing up [...]
WHERE TO DRINK May 27, 2009 NORTH:The Albion, nestling just off Upper Street, will make you forget you are in London. A massive, green beer garden and great food (it has won awards for its Sunday lunch) are topped off with a good beer selection, including Flowers IPA and Black Sheep.10 Thornhill Rd, N1 1HW. Highbury & Islington tube/rail. Tel: 020 [...]
No more BEER FEAR July 29, 2009 I’M sucking a cocktail of coconut and banana beer through two straws, grasping the coconut shell in which it is served with glee. This tastes like a combination of Malibu, suntan lotion and fizz – I feel I’m not meant to like it, but I do. “See, beer is fun!” bellows the buxom Melissa Cole, [...]
With Polish vixens and Japanese beef, it’s like the boom never ended June 22, 2009 NO 2020 WARWICK STREET, W1B 5NF, TEL: 020 7292 6102 FOODSERVICEATMOSPHEREPrice per head without drink: £35 AN economist I know is fond of saying that nothing epitomised the boom years like Wagyu and foie gras burgers. Well, he’ll be relieved to know, the boom years are back in one corner of town: No 20 at [...]
Hop & glory May 27, 2009 MOST people, when they think of a thirst-quenching beer for summer, probably go no further than lager. Now, there is nothing wrong with a good lager, the problem is simply that there are plenty of sub-standard ones about. The pints of fizz flowing from the beer-taps of many pubs are second-rate and suffer from mass-production. [...]
Hop & glory May 27, 2009 MOST people, when they think of a thirst-quenching beer for summer, probably go no further than lager. Now, there is nothing wrong with a good lager, the problem is simply that there are plenty of sub-standard ones about. The pints of fizz flowing from the beer-taps of many pubs are second-rate and suffer from mass-production. [...]
Interactive Prospect dives after firm warns investors August 12, 2008 Online marketing group Interactive Prospect Targeting Holdings’ shares plunged by 27 per cent yesterday after it said its British operation was performing “significantly below management’s expectations”. The Aim-listed firm, which specialises in direct marketing via email, said that it was considering the sale of some of its divisions following its below par performance. It also [...]