City favourite M restaurant branches out with third site in Canary Wharf October 11, 2021 Canary Wharf may still be a little quieter than usual but restaurateur Martin Williams is soon to give commuters another reason to head back to their desks. He is set to open the third M Restaurant across two floors of the Newfoundland building – the UK’s sixth tallest building – overlooking the Thames and the [...]
Met in Priti Patel’s sights after Everard murder October 11, 2021 THE Home Office is reportedly ready to take on a major reform of the Metropolitan Police. Tensions between the Home Secretary Priti Patel and Met commissioner Cressida Dick have continued in the aftermath of the sentencing of PC Wayne Couzens – who raped and murdered 33 year old Sarah Everard whilst a serving officer – [...]
Big-money London property sees bumper 2021 October 11, 2021 Some 352 £5m-plus transactions have completed this year already, more than in the entire years of 2020 and 2019. That includes 94 homes selling for more than £10m. Nearly half of all sales were in Chelsea, Kensington, Belgravia, Notting Hill and St. John’s Wood. Savills, which compiled the data, said the market had predominantly been [...]
Editorial: If tax cuts worked in a crisis, why not after it, too? October 8, 2021 AS A RULE, when one tries something, and it works, one continues it. Having finally mastered penicillin, Alexander Fleming did not go back to the drawing board. Nor, having invented the telephone, did Alexander Graham Bell eschew his new contraption in favour of the carrier pigeon. Past success is worth repeating is a maxim worth [...]
ECB chair to step down after just a year in the job October 7, 2021 Ian Watmore has stepped down as chair of the England and Wales Cricket Board after serving just a fifth of his five-year term. The ECB said the decision was mutual. Watmore said he was stepping down “in mindfulness of my own wellbeing and that of the game which I love.’ Watmore and the ECB have [...]
The City View with MoneyWeek and Avado October 7, 2021 In this episode Andy Silvester speaks to Mark Creighton of professional development firm Avado Learning and John Stepek, Executive Editor of MoneyWeek.
The fairway for women October 6, 2021 The decision to allow women to qualify for the Open Championship has been welcomed by Ryder Cup captain Ian Woosnam and major winner Jose Maria Olazabal. The Royal & Ancient Golf Club, which governs the game, has changed the entry criteria for the oldest tournament in the world to let leading women qualify on an [...]
Tory conference: Boris Johnson’s speech in full October 6, 2021 Prime Minister Boris Johnson delivered his second leader’s speech at Conservative conference today. Here is his speech in full. Isn’t it amazing to be here in person the first time we have met since you defied the sceptics by winning councils and communities that Conservatives have never won in before – such as Hartlepool in [...]
Mothercare’s new passage to India October 6, 2021 Buggies to bibs retailer Mothercare is to enter the potentially lucrative Indian market where there are 110m toddlers. Mothercare has signed a franchise agreement with Shopper-Stop to open 40 stores in India over the next five years. The first outlet will open in April 2006. “The exciting thing about India is there are 110m kids [...]
Minorplanet spins October 6, 2021 Shares in Minorplanet plummeted dramatically as it announced it would go bankrupt if its share placing and open offer were not fully taken up. The company provides vehicle tracking systems to fleet operators. Clients include Boots and Harrods. It has placed 21m new ordinary shares with institutional investors, raising £10.5m. It has also made an [...]
