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CITY PETROLHEADS WHIZZ OFF TO GOODWOOD FOR FESTIVAL OF SPEED

Friday, 3rd July 2009
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GOODWOOD’S glorious Festival of Speed begins today, continuing City socialites’ merry lurch into the silly season after the combined joys of Epsom, Ascot and Wimbledon.  This year’s motor extravaganza is themed “True Grit – Epic Feats of Endurance”, and is celebrating the 100 year anniversaries of petrolhead favourites Bugatti, Audi and Morgan.  Apparently, ticket sales are actually up on last year, by an impressive five per cent – a feat the organisers ... [read more]


PREMIER TAX EXPERT STILL IN THE LEAGUE

Thursday, 2nd July 2009
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IT WAS au revoir (but not goodbye) last night at a leaving party at City restaurant Manicomio for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ John Whiting, the popular tax adviser ... [read more]

CITY EYE

Thursday, 2nd July 2009
THE sun glints off the glass facades of the Gherkin and the Lloyd’s and Willis insurance  buildings yesterday as the City  enjoyed yet another day ... [read more]

SAILORS IN FOR FRUGAL FESTIVITIES AT COWES

Wednesday, 1st July 2009
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THE emails are starting to come in thick and fast, peddling weird and wonderful offers for the annual Cowes week sailing regatta in August.  Given the ... [read more]




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CITY EYE

Wednesday, 1st July 2009
BALLET dancers put in some legwork at their last rehearsal before last night’s performance of ... [read more]

REVEALED: THE LOVELIEST CITY LADIES

Tuesday, 30th June 2009
BACK by unprecedented levels of popular demand: a run-down of the ten loveliest ladies in the City, following last week’s list of the ten hunkiest gents in town. Nominated by you, dear readers
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1. SARAH DAVISON RBS SEMPRA METALS It’s finally official – the gorgeous Miss Davison, who has graced ... [read more]

GIRL POWER IN THE CITY

Monday, 29th June 2009
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Never one to pass up the chance to dwell upon the successes of the ladies ... [read more]

BILL OF THE WEEK

Monday, 29th June 2009
A FEAST fit for kings, this – in volume as well as in quality. This ... [read more]

SWINE FLU SCARE TAKES HOLD AT HEART OF THE FINANCIAL WORLD

Friday, 26th June 2009
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MORE anxiety down at City accountancy firm Ernst & Young, where the dreaded swine flu ... [read more]

FESTIVAL ATMOSPHERE

Friday, 26th June 2009
City workers gathered yesterday in Paternoster Square as a musically-gifted one of their number performed ... [read more]

GLAMOROUS DRAGON HAS SIGHTS ON TV DEN

Thursday, 25th June 2009
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ENTREPRENEURIAL types and their brave backers packed the Institute of Directors yesterday for the fifth ... [read more]

IDEALISM ISN’T LOST ON CITY ART CROWD

Wednesday, 24th June 2009
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IF THERE are any City types out there itching to use the dwindling financial job ... [read more]

ALL HAIL THE CITY’S HUNKIEST GENTS

Tuesday, 23rd June 2009
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1. JOSHUA RAYMOND CITY INDEX It was a tough job, picking just one of the City’s ... [read more]

SALTY OLD SEADOG OF PROPERTY TAKES TO HIGH SEAS ONCE AGAIN

Monday, 22nd June 2009
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PROPERTY guru Mike Slade’s firm Helical Bar might have crashed further into the red over ... [read more]

BILL OF THE WEEK

Monday, 22nd June 2009
MONEY was obviously of little concern to these four diners at South Kensington restaurant L’Etranger ... [read more]

GLAMOUR GALORE AT ASCOT’S LADIES DAY

Friday, 19th June 2009
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IT WAS Ladies’ Day yesterday at Royal Ascot, traditionally the most hotly-anticipated event in the ... [read more]

BUSINESS OSCARS DO CREDIT CRUNCH CHIC

Thursday, 18th June 2009
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IT CERTAINLY doesn’t bode well for a lengthy awards lunch when the presenter himself admits ... [read more]

GLORY DAYS FOR ROYAL ASCOT CITY RACING SET

Wednesday, 17th June 2009
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IT WAS smiles all round for the property world’s keenest racegoers yesterday, as a ... [read more]

CITY FOLK FANCY THEIR CHANCES AT ASCOT

Tuesday, 16th June 2009
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HALF the City is due to decamp to Berkshire this week for Royal Ascot, which ... [read more]

WORST CITY FIRMS TO JOIN ROLL OF HONOUR

Monday, 15th June 2009
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FANCY awards dinners have a reputation for being duller than dishwater, so it’s refreshing to ... [read more]

BILL OF THE WEEK

Monday, 15th June 2009
AHH, it’s the little luxuries in life that count, isn’t it? These six weary ladies ... [read more]

FIRST WOMEN GATHER AT GALA TALENT SHOW

Friday, 12th June 2009
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THERE’S nothing a bunch of hard-working businesswomen like better than listening to one of their ... [read more]

CITY TRADER OFFERS GAMBLERS A FLUTTER ON A LOTTERY OF HIS LIFE

Thursday, 11th June 2009
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REMEMBER the man who, last year, decided to mend his broken heart after a divorce ... [read more]

CRITICS DO A U-TURN ON HORNBY’S REPUTATION

Wednesday, 10th June 2009
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A RINGING endorsement of Andy Hornby, the besieged former chief of HBOS who is now ... [read more]

CITY BOYS COME UP TRUMPS FOR SIR ALAN’S NEWEST APPRENTICE

Tuesday, 9th June 2009
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BEADY-eyed Apprentice followers may have noticed a bevy of City boys getting behind the camera ... [read more]

£1,000 CITY MENU TO STAGE A COMEBACK

Monday, 8th June 2009
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LAST year, one of the City’s favourite restaurants, Vivat Bacchus, made headlines all around the ... [read more]

BILL OF THE WEEK

Monday, 8th June 2009
A GROUP of nine City boys arrived at the Mint Leaf Lounge in Angel Court ... [read more]

FINANCE GRANDEES GRACE ARK’S PARTY OF THE YEAR

Friday, 5th June 2009
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TWO fingers to the downturn: despite the current economic woes, nearly 900 of the world’s ... [read more]

VETERAN BAR OWNER HANGS UP CITY APRON

Thursday, 4th June 2009
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AFTER a lengthy 48-year spell in the City, it’s finally time to say goodbye to ... [read more]

CITY EYE

Thursday, 4th June 2009
CONSTRUCTION on the Heron Tower on Bishopsgate has now reached the 17th floor. The 46-storey ... [read more]

LUXURY FIRMS OUT TO IMPRESS AT WALPOLE GLAM LAUNCH PARTY

Wednesday, 3rd June 2009
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WHEN it comes to impressing the great and the good of the City, Mayfair and ... [read more]

CITY’S GOT TALENT: ON THE HUNT FOR HOTTIES

Tuesday, 2nd June 2009
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ISN’T it about time we started to lighten up and have a bit of fun, ... [read more]

CITY EYE

Tuesday, 2nd June 2009
SHADOWY figures gaze out at the vista over the river to St Paul’s Cathedral from ... [read more]

RAMSAY RUFFLES A FEW RIVAL FEATHERS

Monday, 1st June 2009
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AFTER years of back-stabbing and open mutual hatred, you’d have thought Gordon Ramsay would have ... [read more]



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