The good, bad and ugly of iPad docks March 28, 2011 IT’S here! It’s here! Let us skip hand-in-hand through fields of rose petals and clouds of pure, distilled happiness, for the latest offering from Apple has finally descended to earth. The number of words scrawled in newspapers and online about the iPad 2, if placed end to end, would recede into infinity, twist back on [...]
Scents to make your spring March 28, 2011 1 St Clement’s by James Heeley. Named after the 1740s rhyme Oranges and Lemons, it has wonderful citrus notes. For men. £98, lessenteurs.com 2 212 Pop! by Carolina Herrera. Limited Pop Art-inspired edition for spring, full of bergamot and grapefruit, £36, debenhams.com 3 Huitieme Art Ciel D’Airain, “Smell of a great electric storm breaking over [...]
TOP LIB DEMS CALL FOR NEW PROPERTY TAX March 28, 2011 THE two most powerful Lib Dems yesterday called for more tax to be levied on high-value homeowners to offset the scrapping of the 50p rate of tax. Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg and business secretary Vince Cable both said those with expensive properties would be targeted when the 50p rate is eventually dropped but ruled [...]
London counts the cost of protest against cuts March 28, 2011 HSBC has slammed the attacks on its branches during Saturday’s protests as “entirely unjustified,” pointing out that it is one of the UK’s top taxpayers. Branches of Santander and HSBC were boarded up yesterday after black-clad, masked youths smashed their way into branches, where they destroyed fittings and scrawled graffiti. Lloyds TSB was also targeted. [...]
Merkel loses in heartland March 28, 2011 GERMAN chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party lost power in a regional stronghold yesterday, with early poll results showing the Greens, buoyed by Japan’s nuclear crisis, surging to their first state premiership. In Baden-Wuerttemberg state, where anti-nuclear sentiment has been mobilised by Japan’s nuclear breakdown, the Greens and Social Democrats (SPD) were set to win 47.3 [...]
Cutting spending through the ages March 28, 2011 BEWARE, dear reader: this is a trick question. Which Chancellor of the Exchequer cut spending the most in a single year? Was it George Osborne in his Budget last week, which if this weekend’s protesters are to be believed is pushing through the most “reckless” reductions imaginable? Or was it the great Tory chancellor Nigel [...]
Big Society role for Co-op March 28, 2011 DAVID Anderson, former chief executive of Co-operative Financial Services, is to head up a non-profit organisation that will provide a major source of funding for David Cameron’s Big Society Bank, City A.M. can reveal. The Reclaim Fund, which will manage up to £400m in assets from “dormant” bank accounts that have not been accessed for [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING March 28, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES HOLLYWOOD MAKEOVER FOR YOUTUBE Google is deepening its ties with Hollywood by enlisting top stars to supply original content for YouTube in a bid to boost profits and user engagement at the company’s online video site. Google has been making the rounds of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies, outlining plans to create a network [...]
Rio Tinto still short of shares March 28, 2011 Global miner Rio Tinto remains short of its target of holding more than 50 per cent of shares in Riversdale Mining , ahead of a deadline this evening on its A$3.9bn (£2.5bn) takeover offer for the Mozambique-focused coal miner. It had reached just under 40 per cent as of this morning, Rio Tinto said, with [...]
Apple sells out of iPad 2 March 28, 2011 Apple has already sold out second generation iPads in the UK after massive demand in its first weekend on sale. Those ordering online now face a wait of up to four weeks, with the US taking priority. Analysts believe Apple shifted a staggering 500,000 units in the US over the weekend of the 11 March. [...]
