Quintain seeks new partner for Wembley designer mall project November 29, 2011 QUINTAIN Estates has ended talks with a potential joint venture funding partner to develop and run its London Designer Outlet at its £2.5bn Wembley scheme. In its half-year results, the regeneration specialist said talks had ended after the partner failed to deliver part of the proposed financing structure and will launch a formal market process [...]
Audi’s Sportback is worth the price November 29, 2011 IT’S early Sunday morning. I’d rather be asleep but my daughter has discovered insomnia. After two hours of trying everything to get her back to sleep I succumb to the fail-safe car trip in the hope of inducing her slumber. Outside it’s raining sideways. She’s wailing as I run to the car and wet by [...]
CAR TALK November 29, 2011 FORD FOCUS IN THE SWEENEY’S SPOTLIGHT A movie remake of The Sweeney is exciting enough. But Jack Regan will be played by Ray Winstone and he’ll be driving the new 250PS Ford Focus ST. We just wanted an excuse to show it because it looks so good. The Sweeney is set in London after all, [...]
House prices rise for third month November 29, 2011 House prices edged up in November, beating expectations and despite a weak economy, but activity remains subdued and prices are more likely to dip in the next 12 months, mortgage lender Nationwide said. House prices rose 0.4 per cent from October on a seasonally adjusted basis, their third straight monthly increase, a Nationwide survey showed. [...]
Richard Desmond’s office block in the Docklands sold for £12m November 28, 2011 THE HOME of part of Richard Desmond’s media empire has been sold by Standard Life for £12.2m. Standard Life Investment Property Income Trust has sold the Northern & Shell Tower, an office block in the Docklands, to a private buyer. Desmond’s rental contract will run until 2022 as planned at the previously agreed £909,000 a [...]
How to get app and running November 28, 2011 It seems to get everyone in the end. The dull, repetitive, painful thudding of a morning jog turns from a source of fear and amusement to an insatiable craving. Like desperate addicts people circle public parks under cover of darkness, feeding their habit like nocturnal, masochistic ghouls. Once the addiction has reached a certain level, [...]
FIT IN THE CITY November 28, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT So you ignored the headlines a few weeks ago giving you your Little Black Dress countdown. Now you’re faced with the prospect of sporting backless, strapless numbers for the next five weeks. What’s a girl to do? Act sharpish, I say. I’ve researched (yes, I’ve been the human guinea pig) for [...]
Jamie’s new kitsch kitchen November 28, 2011 UNION JACKS 4 Central St. Giles Piazza, WC2H 8AB Tel: 020 3597 7888 FOOD *** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £22 Sometimes moments come along that give you a real sense of your own mortality. For the most part they’re fairly clichéd, like realising you can’t name a single song in the [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS November 28, 2011 POILANE OPENS ALL-DAY VENUE Artisan bakery Poilâne has launched its first dining venue in the UK. The Cuisine de Bar by Poilâne at 39 Cadogan Gardens hopes to attract customers already familiar with its renowned chain of Parisian bakeries. Open until 8.30pm, it promises to serve wine as well as its famous bread and coffee [...]
QUAFFER’S CORNER November 28, 2011 Wine marketing is a tricky game I was asked for my opinion the other day about iPad wine-lists. For what it’s worth I’m not really in favour for a variety of more or less abstruse reasons. But I want to use it to expand on the larger issue of marketing led decisions, especially where they [...]