FOCUS ON: NOTTING HILL July 26, 2012 NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT TRAVEL AND EDUCATION Located in the heart of West London, Notting Hill is among the most desired areas to live in the world. It is served by a wealth of transport links, with the central line from Notting Hill Gate taking just 16 minutes to get into the City. [...]
Q and A July 26, 2012 DIRECTOR, DOUGLAS AND GORDON Q I’ve had my property on since March and, after the Budget, knocked £350,000 off the price to get under the £2m SDLT bracket. I’ve still not sold. What are my options, given I can’t afford to go lower? A No comfort here but many sellers are in the same situation. [...]
No idyll this: Cairo Year One July 26, 2012 All day every day for a year, Nermine Hammam roved around Tahrir Square and Zamalek in Cairo. Armed only with her Nikon camera, she was snapping the Egyptian revolution – the initial 18-day uprising and its grisly aftermath. With 70,000 pictures to choose from by the close of the year, Hammam had to perform an [...]
Have a very VIP Olympics July 26, 2012 THE OLYMPICS have finally arrived and London’s VIP landscape is ready and set to go. There are a number of venues across the capital being transformed to cater to deep-pocketed high-rollers who have a penchant for partying. The first of such pop-ups is The Retreat in the City which is being created this week at [...]
A good week for music at the Royal Albert Hall July 26, 2012 Prom 12: This was the third outing for Daniel Barenboim’s Palestinian-Israeli West Eastern Divan Orchestra this proms, midway through its Beethoven symphony cycle. We were treated to a superbly sonorous, expressive and caramel-like Pastoral Sixth and a slightly too-quiet famous Fifth, interspersed with work by modern French composer Pierre Boulez. There was something of a [...]
China have the power to beat USA in Olympic gold rush again July 26, 2012 OLYMPIC fever is upon us at last. With one study suggesting home support can boost a host nation’s medal haul by over 50%, Team GB’s official target of 48 medals, just one more than they claimed in Beijing four years ago, seems conservative. Sporting Index’s spread of 62-64 is more realistic but we shouldn’t get [...]
Hannon’s Maureen to bounce back from unlucky Newmarket run July 26, 2012 IT’S a relatively quiet weekend on the racing front as everyone eagerly awaits Frankel’s next start in Wednesday’s QIPCO Sussex Stakes. However, there is still some decent action and the main tip is Richard Hannon’s MAUREEN in tomorrow’s Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot (3.25pm). The daughter of Holy Roman Emperor was an unlucky loser in [...]
OSBORNE URGED TO ACT AS DIP DEEPENS July 25, 2012 BUSINESS leaders, economists and politicians demanded a new economic strategy from the government yesterday, claiming its approach had been shown up as a failure after GDP nose-dived in the second quarter. In yet another blow to beleaguered chancellor George Osborne, the Office for National Statistics released preliminary data that showed GDP down 0.7 per cent, [...]
US Treasury secretary: Libor fiasco is fault of the British July 25, 2012 AMERICAN authorities did all they could to warn British regulators over flaws in the Libor system, as far back as 2008, the defiant US Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner told politicians in Washington DC yesterday. Geithner faced a grilling in front of the House financial services committee, yet insisted that US regulators warned the Bank of [...]
Carnwath leaves Barclays as Del Missier gets £8.8m July 25, 2012 EMBATTLED bank Barclays suffered another significant loss yesterday as a third board member resigned in the wake of mounting turmoil following the devastating Libor scandal. Non-executive director Alison Carnwath left the bank after almost two years on the board citing time pressures, as she holds numerous other directorships across the City. Although she has not [...]
