CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS March 24, 2011 LOVEFiLM Nick James has been appointed as new digital technical development director at the online film rental company. James will work alongside Lesley Mackenzie, group digital officer, on the technical co-ordination of new device platforms, building technology partnerships and further developing back office technical infrastructure. He joins LOVEFiLM from twocashew, a media consultancy responsible for [...]
BEST OF THE BROKERS March 24, 2011 ENRC UBS rates the Kazakh miner “buy” with a 12-month target price of £13. ENRC’s results on Wednesday met the broker’s expectations, with earnings per share beating forecasts by 13 per cent due to exceptional items linked to an acquisition. UBS expects the firm’s costs to rise in line with the industry as it undertakes [...]
I’m leaning towards Pisa in the Dubai World Cup… March 24, 2011 TOM Queally rides Twice Over for Henry Cecil in tomorrow’s Dubai World Cup and the pair are as short as 2/1 with Paddy Power to land the staggering £3,846,154 first prize. The triple Group One winner looked really impressive over course and distance at the beginning of the month and is definitely the one to [...]
Sri Lanka not home and dry against Three Lions March 24, 2011 SRI LANKA vs ENGLAND TOMORROW – 9.00 AM SKY SPORTS ENGLAND’S World Cup story has taken more twists and turns than a Bollywood classic and in spite of themselves – just as in all good movies – the protagonists of this tale still have the chance of a happy ending. If the Three Lions are [...]
BORIS SEEKS THE NEXT BLANKFEIN IN LONDON’S POOREST POSTCODES March 24, 2011 ANY City recruiters out there with a nose for talent will be interested to hear about the latest initiative from Boris Johnson’s Fund for London – a scheme to help disadvantaged young Londoners have a better shot at the UK jobs market. Young London Working provides a central employment hub to connect jobless young people [...]
Cooper defying the limits March 24, 2011 Film LIMITLESS Cert: 15 REMEMBER seeing that poster on the Underground with the guy from The Hangover advertising something called “The Clear Pill”? Well that was actually part of the ad campaign for Bradley Cooper’s latest film, Limitless. It’s a clever marketing trick which the film itself lives up to. Cooper plays Eddie Morra, a [...]
GO STATEMENT WITH A BIG BESPOKE BELT March 24, 2011 HOW much thought do you give to your waist-wear? Probably, if you’re like most people, not much. But, Elliot Rhodes, London’s only bespoke belt-makers, trying to change that with two shops that are more like fantasy dressing up wardrobes than leather goods shops. “The more I looked at belts, the less I could find of [...]
Going private in the Maldives, at long last March 24, 2011 For years, the Indian Ocean’s most exquisite islands, the Maldives, have been solely the preserve of hotels. Now, they’ve begun to open up to foreign buyers, thanks to new laws introduced by the pro-enterprise President Mohamed Nasheed. Before Nasheed, elected two years ago, leaseholds were too short to attract European buyers – but they have [...]
Golfing resorts offer more for life’s non-golfers March 24, 2011 GOLF might have a reputation for being an older man’s pursuit, but with so many resorts launching new spas and property developments, it seems like the old country club vibe of golfing properties is experiencing a renaissance. Take PGA Catalunya, close to Barcelona, that launched the development La Selva apartments last November and the Palheiro [...]
No prams allowed: where singles rule March 24, 2011 ACCORDING to 2009 statistics from the Office of National Statistics General Household Survey, the number of single women has more than doubled over the past three decades. Singleness is on the rise and London is increasingly being divided into two camps: buzzy, occasionally gritty singleton hotspots stuffed to the rafters with bars – and family [...]
