TRAVEL NOTES April 3, 2011 BYBLOS’S NEW SEASON PACKAGE To celebrate opening for the 2011 season, Saint Tropez’s most iconic hotel, Byblos, is offering a seductive package to entice early season weekenders. Enticements are indeed numerous, with an Alain Ducasse restaurant, Byni’z for tapas and cocktails by the pool, a luxurious Sisley spa, recently refurbished rooms and suites and the [...]
A unique blend of Swiss refinement April 3, 2011 The well-heeled traveller automatically thinks of the imposing Dolder Grand when staying in Switzerland’s financial centre. He is wrong to do so. Filling nine lovingly restored, historic townhouses in the very heart of Zurich, the Widder Hotel is a deluxe little hotel in a quiet street just off Bahnhoffstrasse, the top class shopping street. The [...]
Real world social networking helps to keep the Silicon Roundabout turning April 3, 2011 FORGET Silicon Valley and Cambridge’s Silicon Fen, the Silicon Roundabout celebrated by David Cameron in a speech late last year is the UK’s newest and coolest hub of entrepreneurship. Dozens and dozens of IT start-ups lie just around London’s Old Street roundabout, spreading into Shoreditch and further east. The area’s cheap rent drew them in [...]
HARLAN’S LICENCE TO THRILL HIS CITY FANS April 3, 2011 NEVER mind capital markets – when clients meet Craig Coben, head of equity capital markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, they are far more interested in talking about when his famous brother, the US author Harlan Coben, is publishing his next novel. “A lot of the bank’s corporate and private equity clients – ranging [...]
BILL OF THE WEEK April 3, 2011 A step back in time for this week’s bill from 11 November 1918, which can be seen as part of an exhibition at Dr Johnson’s House on Gough Square from tomorrow until 30 July. When the gathering of 31 distinguished diners – including the first Viscount Northcliffe Alfred Harmsworth, founder of the Daily Mail, the [...]
Euro millions offer timely reminder to Tottenham March 31, 2011 TOTTENHAM have received a huge incentive as they prepare to resume their chase for a top four finish after it emerged their Champions League participation in the first half of the season swelled their income by almost 50 per cent. Spurs, who lie fifth ahead of their trip to Wigan tomorrow, saw revenue for the [...]
…but injuries threaten to ruin on-field results March 31, 2011 SPURS manager Harry Redknapp admits injuries have left him with a threadbare defence as he prepares for a pivotal four days of the run-in. Redknapp has just two fit centre-backs ahead of tomorrow’s Premier League trip to Wigan and Tuesday’s European glamour tie against Real Madrid, having seen four consigned to the treatment room. “We [...]
Second arrest over explosives scare probe at Olympic Park March 31, 2011 POLICE swooped to arrest a second person yesterday after a female security guard at the Olympic Stadium was found to be in possession of explosives and a Class A drug. A 43-year-old man was arrested at his home in Wales on suspicion of possessing an explosive substance. The development came after the arrest of the [...]
Murali will play through pain barrier for World Cup final March 31, 2011 SRI LANKA spinner Muttiah Muralitharan will play through the pain barrier in order to be a part of his side’s attempt to win the World Cup at the expense of India tomorrow, according to his coach Trevor Bayliss. Muralitharan, 38, missed a net session yesterday in Mumbai and has struggled with niggles through the course [...]
Is it time to bring back terraces to top flight football? March 31, 2011 YES JULIAN HARRIS NO FRANK DALLERES THE CLAMOUR for standing areas to be reintroduced to stadia in the top two divisions has recently grown loud enough to persuade sport minister Hugh Robertson to re-examine the case. The Premier League, Football Association and the police are all opposed or deeply sceptical of a return to terraces, [...]
