The real Willy Wonka is as experimental as ever September 10, 2013 Think you love chocolate the most? Elizabeth Fournier meets choc-God Paul A Young IT’S NOT hard to be passionate about chocolate, but Paul A Young takes it to a whole new level. Reviewers and customers alike may wax lyrical about his imaginative creations, which include Marmite brownies and Eccles cake truffles. Get him talking on [...]
Five wacky Paul A Young Creations September 10, 2013 The Marmite brownie It may look like a regular brownie but Marmite’s distinctively salty tang is lurking inside. Limoncello and cucumber It may sound more like a cocktail but it’s actually a light, zingy confectionary creation. Cigar leaf caramel Young is famed for his caramel and here he pairs it with a heavy, spicy cigar [...]
Banks were the best regarded UK institutions – now just 19 per cent believe they are well run September 9, 2013 IN JUST 30 years British banks have fallen from being the UK’s most trusted institutions to some of the most loathed – and a devastating study out today shows their reputations are not improving despite the burgeoning economic recovery. According to the landmark 30th annual British Social Attitudes report, released this morning, in the 1980s [...]
Pressure on Vodafone as investors pile into Kabel stock September 9, 2013 VODAFONE is under increasing pressure to change the terms of its €7.7bn (£6.5bn) purchase of Kabel Deutschland ahead of tomorrow’s deadline, as it was revealed yesterday that shareholders have increased their stake in the company. The German telecoms operator said yesterday that Paul E Singer, of Elliott Asset Management, has increased his holdings in the [...]
New fears house bubble may undermine recovery September 9, 2013 PLANS to pump up the housing market could undo the UK’s progress towards sustained economic growth, economists warned yesterday after the chancellor welcomed the recovery. George Osborne yesterday said the return to growth vindicated his decisions to stick with the deficit reduction plans, and insisted he is working to improve living standards. Analysts praised the [...]
Osborne has defeated Ed Balls – but UK’s economy still fragile September 9, 2013 WITH the economy finally growing much more quickly, it is no surprise that the chancellor chose yesterday to show off about it. He is certainly right to be celebrating having seen off Labour’s Ed Balls, whose strident opposition to modest cuts and claims they would inflict permanent havoc are no longer credible. Osborne is also [...]
Damaged UK growth could linger for years September 9, 2013 Weak economic growth may now be the norm for the British economy unless major reforms are undertaken, according to a report out this morning. New research by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) claims that after the longest crisis in British economic history, the country may not ever be able to return to previously typical [...]
MPs attack BBC over payoffs September 9, 2013 CURRENT and former BBC bosses were accused of incompetence and back-covering by an influential panel of MPs yesterday. The grilling came after 150 leaving execs received £25m. Ex-director general Mark Thompson claimed the payoffs represented “value for money” as they were making long run savings. But MPs disagreed. “At best what we’ve seen is incompetence, [...]
Syria urged to yield weapons September 9, 2013 AS President Barack Obama struggled to rally Congress and the American people behind military action in Syria, Russia seized on a remark by his secretary of state John Kerry yesterday to say Damascus should save itself by handing over its chemical weapons. Prime Minister David Cameron joined the calls for Syria to place its arsenal [...]
What the other papers say this morning – 10 September 2013 September 9, 2013 FINANCIAL TIMES Dougan vows not to make losses Credit Suisse’s chief executive has laid out a vision for a banking industry with lower but more sustainable returns and has vowed to never again make losses. Brady Dougan, one of the very few to survive at the helm of a global bank during the tumultuous past [...]
