Don’t forget the batteries this Xmas October 10, 2012 Angry Birds Mega Smash £24.99 The latest creation from the makers of the all conquering smartphone game sees you destroying real-life pigs. Smashing fun. www.toysrus.com Leap Frog LeapPad 2 £89.99 Over 200 cartridge and downloadable games make learning fun for ages 3-9 – and ensure your kids are kings of the tablet generation. www.leappad2.co.uk Web [...]
Property firm PointPark eyes a London float October 9, 2012 EUROPEAN warehouse operator PointPark Properties yesterday announced plans to raise £250m in a float on the London Stock Exchange, marking the first IPO in the real estate sector for two years. The property group said it plans to use the proceeds to buy a €760m (£612m) portfolio of properties that it currently manages on behalf [...]
Aston Martin strikes the right balance October 9, 2012 “It’s the best car we’ve ever made,” says Dr Ulrich Bez of the new Vanquish. I resist the temptation to ask Aston Martin’s boss whether its new flagship GT is better than the £1.2m-plus One-77 hypercar or the less extreme, but almost as exclusive, V12 Zagato now on sale. To be fair, Bez isn’t referring [...]
Car talk October 9, 2012 The new Volkswagon Golf Volkswagen has released prices for the new seventh-generation Golf. Starting from £16,330, it will be sold with a choice of four petrol engines and two diesel engines. All will have seven airbags, semi-automatic air-con and a touchscreen entertainment system with DAB radio that’s teed up for your bluetooth phone, MP3 player [...]
Get ready for the Simons effect October 9, 2012 When it comes to setting the agenda, Dior’s Raf Simons leaves YSL in the shade The tents are down, brands have packed up and press and buyers have finally retreated back to their respective cities; fashion month is well and truly over. And with everything coming to an end, people’s attention has quickly moved from [...]
Fish Market may look a bit like an aquarium but the food is ace October 8, 2012 RESTAURANT FISH MARKET Old Bengal Warehouse, New Street, EC2 Tel: 020 3503 0790 FOOD **** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £30 The Fish Market is one of the four new creations by restaurant group D&D to have found a home in the newly renovated Old Bengal Warehouse. Alongside the fish restaurant [...]
Wild boar was extinct for hundreds of years. Now it’s back, learn how to enjoy it October 8, 2012 Head chef, Paternoster Chop House October is here and if you’re feeling adventurous, it’s a great time to try Wild Boar. Not because it’s in season (unlike most game, wild boar doesn’t really have a season), but because the accompaniments that go best with it are. Wild mushrooms, beetroot, juniper, chestnuts, apples, plums, pumpkin – [...]
Champagne: is bigger better? October 8, 2012 City A.M.’s wine industry expert When you think about buying a bottle of Champagne, which names immediately spring to mind? Bollinger? Moet & Chandon? Brands like these carry a hefty price tag but whether their wines are better than the cheaper alternatives is up for debate. You can buy a bottle of Tesco-branded Champagne for [...]
Visit Malaysia for the birds, the bees and the leeches October 7, 2012 MY HERO swoops down in the nick of time. I’m perched atop a bare rock, too petrified to move when she flies to my rescue. Barely seven inches tall, the blue-winged pitta flits to the ground and within moments, her beak is filled with what look like needle-thin worms. I’ve never been happier to see [...]
Nationwide to scrap interest-only loans October 4, 2012 ONE of the UK’s biggest mortgage lenders yesterday said it would withdraw interest-only mortgages to future homeowners from next week, in a further sign of the squeeze on higher risk lending. Nationwide Building Society, the third biggest mortgage lender in the country, wrote to brokers yesterday saying it would stop offering the mortgage on 11 [...]