Hairdresser to the stars, and to you March 21, 2011 WHEN your working week as a hairdresser consists of styling Natalie Portman’s do for an awards ceremony one day, jetting off to primp models for a catwalk show the next and rounding things off with a Vogue shoot, you’ve realistically reached the stage when you don’t need the hassle and pressure of running a salon. [...]
With games like these who needs to sleep? March 21, 2011 THE games calendar has been so furiously packed over the last few weeks that the line between reality and the imagined world inside my Xbox has become blurred to the point of non-existence, perhaps irredeemably so. It has got to the stage where I have started to eye regular people with suspicion, lest they attempt [...]
Episode six: Morning meeting March 21, 2011 I LEAN back in my chair, hands behind my head and look up at the ceiling. It’s been a whirlwind few weeks. Pregnant. Then pregnant some more. And on top of that, we’d spent last weekend at Emma’s parents, celebrating her birthday and with Emma desperate to tell her parents about her – our? – [...]
Caribbean Travel March 21, 2011 Jamaica BEST BEACH Jamaica is one of the few Caribbean islands that is blessed by being totally surrounded by the warm Caribbean sea. That said, the choice of beaches is unending and in Montego Bay, one of the best to experience is the Doctors cave Beach. Celebrating over 100 years as a bathing beach, it [...]
An Italian affair at the Four Seasons March 21, 2011 Amaranto Hamilton Place, Park Lane W1J 7DR Tel: 020 7499 0888 FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE Cost per person without wine: £55 AFTER its £125m makeover, the Four Seasons is looking just like you’d imagine. It’s dripping in chandeliers, coated in lacquer and bedecked with equine sculpture. It hardly feels homely, but it does feel rich. It’s [...]
Air strikes rain down on Gaddafi March 20, 2011 LIBYAN capital Tripoli burned last night after a second wave of air strikes by Allied forces. Anti-aircraft fire could be heard throughout the night despite Gaddafi’s government claiming to have ordered an unlikely ceasefire. RAF Tornados and US stealth bombers rained down missiles on Libyan tanks and anti-aircraft munitions, killing dozens of Gaddafi troops. Loyalists closing [...]
Osborne to soften blow of fuel costs March 20, 2011 GEORGE Osborne’s Budget will contain a raft of measures designed to mitigate the soaring cost of fuel. The chancellor has scrapped plans to raise air passenger duty (APD) for the fourth time in three years, City A.M. understands. He had been expected to increase the tax on holidaymakers and business travellers in line with the retail [...]
Plans to slash safety red tape March 20, 2011 Health and safety inspections are to be cut by a third in a bid to cut costs for low-risk businesses. As part of a raft of rule changes to be announced by employment minister Chris Grayling today, the government will instruct inspectors to concentrate their efforts on high risk locations, like major energy facilities, and [...]
How to reverse Britain’s slow decline March 20, 2011 GEORGE Osborne’s Budget must deliver a range of market-friendly policies to increase the rate of return on investment in the UK. That is the message from a group of economists, including Derek Scott, for years Tony Blair’s economic adviser, in a paper for the Reform think-tank. Their analysis of Britain’s accelerating relative decline, which started [...]
Daniels cut from Aviva list March 20, 2011 FORMER Lloyds chief executive Eric Daniels has been dropped from the shortlist for insurance group Aviva’s chairmanship after an outcry from shareholders. Some of the company’s biggest investors complained after news last week that Daniels, who stepped down from Lloyds last month, could succeed Lord Sharman when he leaves in 2013. Daniels has been criticised [...]
