TRAVEL NOTES March 20, 2011 BA’s American shuttle British Airways and American Airlines have combined forces to create a transatlantic shuttle service. The most dramatic change is to the Heathrow to New York route: previously nearly half of all flights were departing at the same time, leaving gaps of up to three hours between services; now they will depart every [...]
Changing times: moving on from Mayfair March 17, 2011 PRICES of the Monopoly board favourite Mayfair, as well as other prime favourites, have rocketed to near 2007 levels (see graph below), leading to the emergence of alternative investment hotspots. Marylebone is being hailed as the new Mayfair, with residential favourites Pimlico, Hampstead and Fulham hot on its heels. Mayfair prices have been drastically pushed [...]
WIMBLEDON March 17, 2011 RIDLEY ROAD Price: £749,950 The elegant yet unassuming exterior of this three-bedroom house conceals a family home to die for: all clean lines, sash windows and shiny wooden floors. Plenty of space for entertaining, including an extensive open-plan kitchen – ideal for dinner parties, and a decent-size garden. Contact: Foxtons on 020 8605 2900 or [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT March 17, 2011 Commuting: Based at the southern end of District Line, Wimbledon Station has good access to West and Central London. There are also regular overground trains to Waterloo (taking 19 minutes) and a twice-hourly service to St. Pancras (taking 40 minutes). Education: Ursuline High for girls and Wimbledon College for boys are two above-average comprehensives. Wimbledon [...]
INTERIORS March 17, 2011 CREATIVE DIRECTOR OF APD INTERIORS Q. Dear Andrew, the rooms in my home are not particularly big. How can I make them appear bigger? A. Start by asking yourself if you could just reorganise and declutter to create more space. Nothing makes a small room look smaller than a cluttered, messy room, so clear it [...]
PROPERTY NEWS March 17, 2011 OPEN HOUSE DAY AT STRUTT & PARKER The estate agents Strutt & Parker will be opening the doors of properties across the UK for buyers on 26 March. Prospective buyers will be able to view a range of properties, from quaint cottages to grand manor houses, in a relaxed, pressure-free environment, from 10am to 4pm. [...]
Sheridan outshines Sienna March 17, 2011 Theatre FLARE PATH Theatre Royal, Haymarket Of all the fearful things brave people did in World War II, few were more perilous than being part of a bomber crew. A quiet sense of terror underwrites Flare Path, which is set in a small hotel where flight crews and their loved ones meet to relax between [...]
ALSO OUT: March 17, 2011 DVD Submarine Directed by Richard Ayaode, a touching, entrancing look at teenage love. lincoln lawyer Matthew McConnaughey plays a lawyer who conducts business from his Lincoln limo in this run-of-the-mill thriller. DVD The Social Network Enthralling, award-winning examination of Facebook’s birth. red Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich star in this action thriller about [...]
Philosophers and the fine art of business March 16, 2011 DO BUSINESSES that are trusted make more money? Is it ever morally acceptable to lie? Is a corporation a moral agent? If so, who does that mean is responsible if it does bad things? Not the most obvious questions that you might expect to face on an MBA course, perhaps, but these sorts of quandaries [...]
Rats, feral pigs and tragedy March 16, 2011 WHEN THE KILLING’S DONE BY T.C. BOYLE Bloomsbury, £18.99 What a pleasure to have a thriller from such a master of letters as the award-winning American writer TC Boyle. Quite unlike his last novel, The Women, an acclaimed biography of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, this is an eco-thriller that takes us into the dark heart [...]