Kitty cat wins over awful rom com December 8, 2011 Film PUSS IN BOOTS Cert: U After the grouchy cash monster that was the Shrek series, Dreamworks has quite rightly laid the franchise to rest, instead focusing on the series’ most interesting character: a small cat who looks cute but kicks arse. It may well have been a disaster, but thankfully there are enough gags [...]
Look dazzling for your Xmas bash December 8, 2011 MOST of us get ready for festive bashes in the loos at work – after a crazy day. We certainly don’t have time to spare primping for mid-week dos. The key is having the outfit ready to go, but even more importantly, having the right makeup for instant glamour and shine. At the end of [...]
HOW TO GET DRESSED December 8, 2011 Founders of Rous Iland members’ Boutique www.rousiland.com Q. I’m now officially pasty white and feeling exhausted from too many parties, but there’s still over two weeks of a full social calendar before the year ends. How can I disguise my weariness and keep things exciting? A. If you’re already bored of your winter day-to-night ensembles, [...]
City to take big step towards title December 8, 2011 IT has been a rollercoaster couple of weeks for Andre Villas-Boas, but he will be delighted with consecutive 3-0 victories against Newcastle and Valencia. Consistency has been a major issue for Chelsea, though, and they face a stern test at home on Monday night against Manchester City. The West London side have lost a disappointing [...]
Sunnyhillboy on an attractive mark with McCoy in the saddle December 8, 2011 PAUL Nicholls needs just one more winner at Cheltenham over the next two days to make it 150 at the home of National Hunt racing and looking at today’s card, it might not take him that long to reach such an historic landmark. In fact, he has every chance of landing the main betting event [...]
MERKOZY IN POWER GRAB December 7, 2011 BRITAIN will lose control over corporation tax and employment rules while the City will be battered by a financial transactions tax, if a new plan devised by French and German leaders gets the green light this week. German Chancellor Merkel and French President Sarkozy outlined the controversial demands in a letter to European Council President [...]
Boris calls for referendum December 7, 2011 BORIS Johnson, the Mayor of London, yesterday broke ranks with the Tory leadership by insisting that the treaty changes being proposed by European leaders would need to be put to the British public in a referendum. Johnson’s call for a referendum on plans for a “very dominant economic government” in Europe directly contradicts David Cameron’s [...]
S&P extends its warnings December 7, 2011 CREDIT rating agency Standard & Poor’s piled further pressure on the Eurozone last night by putting the EU’s triple-A rating on downgrade watch. The US agency then added to the beleaguered bloc’s misery by issuing a similar ratings warning to some of the largest banks, including France’s Societe Generale and BNP Paribas, Italy’s UniCredit and Germany’s [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING December 7, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES DUBLIN IS URGED TO SELL NAMA AS A SINGLE ENTITY A secret report into the operations of Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency, the state agency set up to purge Irish banks of their toxic property loans, has recommended that the government should consider selling it off as a single entity. FINANCING PROBLEMS WEIGH [...]
Cameron must be radical on Europe December 7, 2011 ONCE again, the British public is being mis-sold a European treaty. Some of what is being proposed is, as advertised, about “saving” the euro by trying to make it harder for nations to overspend and over-borrow. But what has imposing a Tobin tax on London, to raise billions that would be transferred to Brussels, got [...]
