CITY A.M.’S STUNNING STRIMPEL PROBES THE STRANGE MALE BRAIN July 1, 2010 SUPER-GLAM Sketch last night played host to the debut book launch party of City A.M.’s very own lifestyle editor, Zoe Strimpel. Around 80 select guests were invited to celebrate the publication of What The Hell Is He Thinking?, Strimpel’s eighty-questions-and-answers guide to what goes on in the male brain. “Men are tough to figure out [...]
Cameron appoints his coalition cabinet May 12, 2010 1. DAVID CAMERON Prime Minister Tory leader becomes PM, as well as First Lord to the Treasury 2. NICK CLEGG Deputy Prime Minister Liberal Democrat leader is Deputy PM, overseeing political reform 3. GEORGE OSBORNE Chancellor Former shadow chancellor is moving in to Number 11 4. WILLIAM HAGUE Foreign Secretary A former Tory leader, Hague [...]
Conservatives pledge to invest in a high-speed Internet network March 11, 2010 INVESTING in a high-speed Internet network would open up a new global trade route for Britain, boosting economic recovery and creating thousands of jobs, the opposition Conservative party claimed yesterday. The party plans to stimulate £29bn of private investment in the broadband network by opening up access to infrastructure currently dominated by BT and providing [...]
Tories in fast broadband plan January 31, 2010 A CONSERVATIVE government could use part of the BBC licence fee to fund the rollout of superfast broadband to the majority of homes by 2017. And the Tories pledged to end BT’s dominance of broadband by forcing it to give rivals access to its ducts, sewers, telephone poles and unused cables. Shadow culture secretary Jeremy [...]
Board shake-up at Mitchells & Butlers as finance chief quits to join Rentokil June 22, 2010 PUBS and restaurant group Mitchells & Butlers (M&B) has appointed Interserve’s Tim Jones as finance director replacing Jeremy Townsend, who will join Rentokil as chief financial officer at the end of August. Meanwhile, Interserve said Tim Jones, who has handed in his resignation in order to take up the role at M&B, will remain at [...]
Tories could give Sky the Ashes back November 15, 2009 Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt said yesterday that a Tory government could overturn Labour’s decision to return a host of sporting events to free-to-air channels. Last week, a government-appointed panel – led by former Football Association chief executive David Davies – recommended that the Ashes cricket, international football World Cup and European Championship qualifying matches, [...]
BBC hits back at Bradshaw as row grows September 17, 2009 THE BBC’s embattled director general Mark Thompson yesterday accused the government of trying to abolish the BBC Trust because the independent governing body opposed its own point of view. Thompson’s attack on the government came at the Royal Television Society Cambridge conference, in which he responded to culture secretary Ben Bradshaw’s comments that the BBC [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING October 18, 2009 THE SUNDAYSThe Sunday Telegraph £5.5BN PLAN FOR POWER STATIONA £5.5bn planning application, the largest ever in central London, will be made today when Ireland’s Real Estate Opportunities and Treasury Holdings reveal their blueprint for the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station. Plans for the mixed commercial and residential site, which developers say will be as iconically [...]
EX-FA BOSS BARWICK LANDS NEW CITY ROLE January 27, 2010 SOMETHING of a coup for law firm Lewis Silkin yesterday, as it announced the appointment of former Football Association chief executive Brian Barwick as a consultant in its sports law team. Barwick, of course, departed the FA under a bit of a storm cloud back in 2008, after fans and commentators alike placed the blame [...]
Outrage as telephone tax looms June 16, 2009 MILLIONS could be hit by a new “telephone tax” under government plans to fund broadband for all. Lord Carter’s long-awaited Digital Britain Report, published yesterday, outlined plans to slap a £6-a-year levy on households with a telephone line to help pay for universal broadband access. The TaxPayers’ Alliance last night said it was “inappropriate” to [...]