Royal boost for Stanley Gibbons January 17, 2011 Collectibles group Stanley Gibbons is anticipating a jump in sales, fuelled by items to mark the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, it said yesterday. The Royal Wedding will take place at Westminster Abbey on 29 April, and the company expects to sell lots of first day covers, stamps and other collectibles. It recently [...]
Royal boost for Stanley Gibbons January 17, 2011 Collectibles group Stanley Gibbons is anticipating a jump in sales, fuelled by items to mark the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, it said yesterday. The Royal Wedding will take place at Westminster Abbey on 29 April, and the company expects to sell lots of first day covers, stamps and other collectibles. It recently [...]
Extra holiday for Royal wedding November 23, 2010 The UK is to have a three-day week ahead of the royal wedding, it was announced yesterday. Prince William and Kate Middleton’s nuptials are set to take place on Friday 29 April, the week after Easter and ahead of the May Day holiday, giving the country two successive four-day weekends. The TUC welcomed the extended [...]
Unions won’t risk royal day strike action January 11, 2011 TRADE UNIONS have downplayed the threat of potential strike action on the day of the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton. Threats to ruin celebrations on 29 April incensed the city, after fears unions could bring London to a grinding halt, as millions the world over turn their focus on the capital for [...]
ROYAL WEDDING BELLS AT LAST November 16, 2010 A ROYAL wedding between prince William and his fiance Kate Middleton could come as early as spring next year, after the pair announced yesterday that they are to tie the knot. Prince William proposed whilst on a holiday in Kenya last month, and used the engagement ring his father gave to his mother, Princess Diana, [...]
A right Royal WEDDING April 20, 2011 We at City A.M. can be a cynical bunch. We confess there have been moments in the run-up to the royal wedding on 29 April that have made us roll our eyes, such as T Mobile’s yawnsome wedding spoof video and the release of the awful-looking William & Kate: The Movie. Others, though, have raised [...]
Fake tans: the golden rules May 23, 2011 IT’S that time of year again. With the prospect of unveiling bare legs and arms for the summer weather, many of us are heading straight to the self-tanning counter. (Not least the cast of ITV2’s “The Only Way is Essex”, whose collective mahogany glow hit new levels at Sunday’s TV BAFTA awards.) But self-tan doesn’t [...]
IRISH BOW OUT OF POWERSCOURT BASH AS DUBLIN FENDS OFF EU AID November 16, 2010 CITY comunications advisory Powerscourt last night held its annual bash in Paramount, the 31st-floor bar of Centrepoint, but there were a few old favourites missing from the crowd. CEO Rory Godson, originally from Ireland, said he could only pass on his apologies from his Irish chums: “Our friends in Dublin have stayed at home to [...]
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 [...]