PROPERTY NEWS September 9, 2010 HAMPTONS RELEASES IPAD APPLICATION Hamptons International has this week become the first UK residental estate agent to launch an app for the iPad. The app allows you to view high-resolution photos and floorplans for properties and to pinpoint the location of properties on a full-screen map. You can also use GPS to search for properties [...]
LETTING September 9, 2010 Q.My tenant emailed me to say she had pest controllers in to remove mice from her kitchen. This was the first I knew of a problem. She expects me to pay. Am I liable? A.As a general rule, if the problem was there before she moved in, then you should pay for pest control; if [...]
A spa in the home is the ultimate in luxury city living September 9, 2010 IN the past a health club was where you went to get pampered, a spa was a resort with natural springs and “wellness” was a hippy concept. Now that we’re both more health-conscious and luxe-conscious, however, spa facilities – meaning pools, treatment rooms, gyms, saunas, steam rooms and more – are a part of people’s [...]
Making millions from potatoes September 9, 2010 No one has ever written a book about how to make a million from a potato, but Will Chase could. The founder of Tyrrells crisps – the posh ones that brought the vegetable crisp to the tables of the upper middle class – has now turned his hand to vodka, made from the spuds grown [...]
Let your employees Chatter all day long September 9, 2010 SALESFORCE.COM launched a mobile application for Chatter, their “Facebook for business”, this week. An employer would not be alone if she baulked at the thought of her workers checking their friends’ status updates during the working day. Particularly when a study conducted by Peninsula, the employment law firm, has found that 233m hours are lost [...]
Q&A September 9, 2010 Q.I have a business idea. Do I need market research? A.Ideas are great but good businesses are built on finding a niche – and banks will expect to see why your idea is viable. Travers Clarke-Walker, product and marketing director for Barclays Business, says: “doing market research is a good way for a business to [...]
PREVIEW: KINGS PLACE FESTIVAL September 9, 2010 AS YOU’D expect from one of the world’s great cultural cities, London is not without its fair share of arts festivals. Not many of them, however, enable you to see world-class performers for a mere £4.50. Just one in fact, and it’s running until Sunday at Kings Place, the multi-arts venue in King’s Cross which [...]
Saucy goings on in the country September 9, 2010 Film Tamara drewe Cert: 15 FINALLY: a comic book adaptation with nary a caped superhero in sight. Instead, we have Gemma Arterton in a vest and denim hotpants, reducing the male denizens of a rural backwater – and, frankly, most male viewers – to a state of sweaty-palmed lust. Arterton’s titular (pun intended) character, a [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND PREVIEWS September 9, 2010 FILM GOING THE DISTANCE Romantic comedy with Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. THE RUNAWAYS The story of Joan Jett and her band of 70s teen rockers, with Kristen Stewart. RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE Mila Jovovich kicks yet more alien butt in this umpteenth spin-off. DVD KICK ASS Post-modern superhero action nuttiness, with our very own Aaron [...]
Saamidd and Rewilding to land Frankie huge double September 9, 2010 The Ladbrokes St Leger (3.20pm), the world’s oldest classic, is tomorrow’s highlight and Frankie Dettori will be trying to win the race for a sixth time. He was second on favourite Kite Wood in last year’s renewal, just beaten by stablemate Mastery, but he looks to have an even better chance this time around. REWILDING [...]
