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PREMIER TAX EXPERT STILL IN THE LEAGUE
Thursday, 2nd July 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 who’s often been dubbed “Britain’s most quoted accountant”. Whiting – who’s known as “Mr T” on his regular stints on the BBC 2 Working Lunch sofa – has already started in his new job as tax policy adviser for the Chartered Institute of Taxation. But after 37 ... [read more]
CITY EYE
Thursday, 2nd July 2009THE 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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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]
CITY EYE
Wednesday, 1st July 2009BALLET dancers put in some legwork at their last rehearsal before last night’s performance of Swan Lake, which was put on in the lavish interior ... [read more]
REVEALED: THE LOVELIEST CITY LADIES
Tuesday, 30th June 2009BACK 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
VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
Never one to pass up the chance to dwell upon the successes of the ladies ... [read more]
BILL OF THE WEEK
Monday, 29th June 2009A 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 2009VICTORIA BATES
MORE anxiety down at City accountancy firm Ernst & Young, where the dreaded swine flu ... [read more]
FESTIVAL ATMOSPHERE
Friday, 26th June 2009City 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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009MONEY 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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009AHH, 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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009A 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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
AFTER a lengthy 48-year spell in the City, it’s finally time to say goodbye to ... [read more]
CITY EYE
Thursday, 4th June 2009CONSTRUCTION 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 2009VICTORIA BATES
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 2009VICTORIA BATES
ISN’T it about time we started to lighten up and have a bit of fun, ... [read more]
CITY EYE
Tuesday, 2nd June 2009SHADOWY 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 2009VICTORIA BATES
AFTER years of back-stabbing and open mutual hatred, you’d have thought Gordon Ramsay would have ... [read more]
BILL OF THE WEEK
Monday, 1st June 2009CHINESE food has long been a favourite of City slickers in search of (relatively) cost-effective ... [read more]
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