SAILORS IN FOR FRUGAL FESTIVITIES AT COWES June 30, 2009 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 fact that a headline sponsor has yet to be found to replace Skandia, which pulled out last year, you get the distinct feeling that this year’s Cowes will be [...]
CITY EYE June 30, 2009 BALLET 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 of St Paul’s Cathedral as part of this year’s City of London festival – an extravaganza of free jazz and world music concerts, walks, talks, exhibitions, street-theatre and dance performances, [...]
The sun has come out to play, but not everyone is celebrating June 30, 2009 YESZOE STRIMPELPOOR weather gods. They just can’t win, not in Britain anyway. The age-old refrain on these isles – when other conversation dries up – is how crap the weather is. The rain, the cold, how England is so insufferably depressing it’s a miracle anybody still lives here when Spain is just an hour’s flight [...]
Baring too much skin at work is a risk June 30, 2009 DEAR VEXED: I work in a bank and the dress code is very professional. All the same, I’ve not been able to help myself from baring some skin lately. But I’m worried I’m being judged negatively. How can I enjoy my summer wardrobe without going too far? Lucy, private wealth I can understand your desire [...]
A swim under the sun June 29, 2009 BROCKWELL LIDOBROCKWELL PARK, SE24 0PA, TEL: 020 72743088, WWW.BROCKWELL-LIDO.COMTHE POOL: A south London gem, this pre-war, charity-funded lido is a Grade II listed Art Deco structure, which has been thoroughly updated. The ambitious facilities are divided into Health, Vitality and Wellbeing sections, and there are swanky workout machines if you want to augment your swimming [...]
More saving for old age despite the recession June 29, 2009 PENSION savings have bucked the downturn this year so far, with more people putting money aside for retirement despite the fact consumers are facing tighter finances and increased redundancies. The Scottish Widows Pension index, which tracks the number of people saving adequately for retirement, has risen from 51 per cent in 2008 to 54 per [...]
Hargreaves to top forecasts June 29, 2009 FINANCIAL advisory firm Hargreaves Lansdown said yesterday it expects its full-year results to come in ahead of expectations, driven by high stockbroking dealing volumes and the recent market recovery. The firm said revenues for the 11 months to 31 May were 10 per cent ahead of the same period last year and that full-year pre-tax [...]
GOLD RUSH AT CENTAMIN June 29, 2009 JOSEF El-Raghy, chief executive of Aim’s largest mining company Centamin Egypt, was celebrating at the weekend after the company poured the first gold bar from its vast Sukari gold project in the Egyptian Eastern Desert. Sukari is the largest gold mine in the world to come on stream this year, with almost 15m ounces of [...]
Porsche told to end row over its future June 29, 2009 LOWER Saxony, Volkswagen’s second-largest shareholder, again pushed Volkswagen (VW) and Porsche to break a deadlock in merger talks yesterday as the two German carmakers squabbled over a deal. Disagreements among Porsche’s owning families and questions about preconditions for an investment by Middle Eastern Kingdom Qatar have held up progress toward creating a combined company, people [...]
CITY MOVES WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS June 29, 2009 ExecutionMarcus Ashworth has joined the agency broker to help drive Asian equity sales in its London office. Ashworth joins from Mitsubishi UFJ Securities, where he was a director in the equity derivative and equity research sales team with responsibility for Asia. Prior to that, he held a number of positions at National Australia Bank, Bridport, [...]