Cotswolds classics are always in demand July 1, 2010 PICTURE the idyllic country home and the chances are you’ll conjure up some quaint, mullioned stone cottage in the Cotswolds. Far beyond a fad, the Cotswolds are home to what many consider England’s most appealing rural villages. They ooze a well-heeled ambiance but provide countryside and an equestrian community that is second to none, all [...]
Tastes of the garden in St James’s June 28, 2010 The Avenue 7-9 St James’s Street, SW1A 1EE www.danddlondon.com HUGE place, The Avenue. It has sat near the bottom of St James’s Street since the Nineties when its spacious minimalism was quite the thing, if hardly what you’d expect to find just off fusty old Pall Mall. Earlier this year it was given a paint [...]
Tastes of the garden in St James’s June 28, 2010 The Avenue 7-9 St James’s Street, SW1A 1EE www.danddlondon.com HUGE place, The Avenue. It has sat near the bottom of St James’s Street since the Nineties when its spacious minimalism was quite the thing, if hardly what you’d expect to find just off fusty old Pall Mall. Earlier this year it was given a paint [...]
Protect your descendants from the axe of the taxman June 17, 2010 AHEAD of the general election, there was plenty of chatter about the Conservatives’ pledge to raise the inheritance tax (IHT) threshold to £1m. But the importance of appeasing the Liberal Democrats has superseded the need to appeal to the Tory heartland. The threshold is expected to remain at £325,000 for an individual and £650,000 for [...]
Protect your descendants from the axe of the taxman June 17, 2010 AHEAD of the general election, there was plenty of chatter about the Conservatives’ pledge to raise the inheritance tax (IHT) threshold to £1m. But the importance of appeasing the Liberal Democrats has superseded the need to appeal to the Tory heartland. The threshold is expected to remain at £325,000 for an individual and £650,000 for [...]
Shahzad handed one-day call June 15, 2010 PACE bowler Ajmal Shahzad has been handed an England lifeline after being drafted into the one-day squad for the forthcoming series with Australia. The Yorkshire seamer was a surprise omission from the original 13-man squad selected last week, but gets his chance after Ryan Sidebottom suffered a minor hamstring strain. Shahzad, 24, was hoping to [...]
International raiders set to steal the show on Ascot’s opening day June 14, 2010 FIVE days of quality racing gets underway this afternoon with arguably the race of the week, the Queen Anne Stakes. Last year’s winner Paco Boy meets multiple Group One winners GOLDIKOVA and Rip Van Winkle in a mouth-watering clash. My slight preference is for the French wonder mare who last month won the eighth Group [...]
Isis gets £12m in Occam sale June 2, 2010 ISIS Equity Partners, the small-cap buyout house, is eyeing new investment opportunities after selling marketing software maker Occam to services company St Ives for £12m. Isis said it made between 1.5 and two times its investment of £4.1m on the sale of Occam, which it bought into through a management buyout in 2004. The company, [...]
A blooming good way to eat for springtime May 12, 2010 LOTS of us have aspirations of turning our gardens into allotments and impressing dinner party guests with all manner of home-grown delicacies. Since that requires time, effort, good soil, advantageous sunlight and – at the very least – a garden, not many of us actually manage it. But a form of garden produce requiring a [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS May 10, 2010 M. ROUX GOES TO WESTMINSTER As the post-election fall-out rolls on, Michel Roux Jr (below), chef patron of London’s most famous French restaurant and feared critic of Masterchef’s professionals edition has moved into politics – sort of. Yesterday saw the opening of the Le Gavroche maestro’s new project, Roux at Parliament Square, in a grand [...]