How to get the best deal exiting… August 21, 2011 PETER Jones cashed in on his Wireless Logic investment this week, pocketing a whopping £38m. This is the third telecoms business he has sold in the last year, totting up over £100m in the process. He’s after a “war chest” that will buy him a mega-retail brand to turn around. Just how does he do [...]
And how to avoid dodgy deals on the way in August 21, 2011 THE horror stories about angel investors are true,” warns Andrew Scott, a serial entrepreneur and investor. “I’ve been stung a few times. Once I was working out a contract with an investor and it was taking far longer than expected. Then at the eleventh hour, he turned round and insisted on double the exit. He [...]
Make like Bond with an Aston in the Alps August 21, 2011 AMERICAN novelist Mark Twain wrote that rambling in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland was incomparable to any opiate, legal or otherwise. Imagine the rush, then, to be booming an Aston Martin V8 Vantage S round the picturesque, vertiginous Alpine passes, past crystal-clear glacier lakes and verdant valleys where cow bells jangle for miles. I’ve been let loose [...]
TRAVEL NOTES August 21, 2011 ESCAPE TO THE TOWN AND COUNTRY If you think you’ll be in need of a late summer escape, you can enjoy it in the town and in the countryside with a rather tempting partnership deal between the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge and Cotswolds country house retreat Cowley Manor (pictured above). The package allows you a [...]
Mancini lays down law to Arsenal over Nasri deal August 21, 2011 BOLTON (2) vs MANCHESTER CITY (3) MANCHESTER CITY manager Roberto Mancini has warned Arsenal he could pull the plug on a £25m move for Samir Nasri if Arsene Wenger plays him in the Champions League against Udinese this week. Mancini saw his team go top of the Premier League with a 3-2 win at Bolton [...]
Chelsea win the race for £26m Mata August 21, 2011 CHELSEA are poised to complete their biggest signing of the summer after agreeing a fee with Valencia for winger Juan Mata. Spain international Mata will complete his move this week, subject to a medical, for a fee thought to be around £26m. He is expected to sign a five-year deal worth £70,000 a week. Arsenal [...]
Swann calls on England to finish off India this morning August 21, 2011 SPINNER Graeme Swann relished taking centre stage at last as England moved to within seven wickets of completing a 4-0 series whitewash of India at The Oval. Swann (right) claimed two wickets after England enforced the follow-on, to add to his three from India’s first innings, as the tourists ended the fourth day on 129-3, [...]
Flutey World Cup woe as Johnson picks Simpson August 21, 2011 WASPS centre Riki Flutey is set to be the most high-profile casualty when England manager Martin Johnson whittles his World Cup squad down to a final 30 today. Flutey is the victim of the injury to scrum-half Danny Care, which will see Johnson take Wasps’ uncapped Joe Simpson and Saracens’ Richard Wigglesworth as back-up No9s. [...]
Dravid steel halts England celebrations August 21, 2011 IF ENGLAND are today denied the whitewash that would provide a fitting climax to what has already been a momentous series, then it will be in large part due to Rahul Dravid. The India batsman’s stubborn 146 not out in the tourists’ first innings of this fourth and final Test at The Oval was in [...]
Wenger obituaries are being penned prematurely August 21, 2011 ARSENAL boss Arsene Wenger is a man on the brink. Saturday’s home defeat to Liverpool has detonated the myth that the Gunners were ever likely to finish in the top four and Wenger would be advised to consider jumping before he is pushed. Or so some would have us believe. But it’s hard to escape [...]
