Efficient running requires a close relationship to your heart August 23, 2010 PERSONAL COACH AT FULL POTENTIAL THE human heart weighs about nine ounces and beats 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime. But what has it got to do with your running? Well, its performance and efficiency are unique to you and therefore a great indicator of training and recovery levels. But while many will nod [...]
The finest dining to be had on High Street Ken August 23, 2010 Park Terrace Royal Garden Hotel 2-24 Kensington High Street W8 4PT 020 7937 8000 www.parkterracerestaurant.co.uk FOOD SERVICE ATMOSPHERE LIKE the hotel that houses it, Park Terrace looks blandly corporate, even despite its Hyde Park views. Yet it was refurbished and relaunched in May, and while it may lack aesthetic vim, its food bears the hallmarks [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS August 23, 2010 A GOURMET END TO RAMADAN Break the Ramadan fast in style at Malaysian restaurant Awana. Dishes include a date korma as well as roti canai, a Malaysian bread made from a traditional family recipe, and Satay Udang, fresh tiger prawn skewers served with a signature spicy peanut sauce. Feast available until 11 Sep, the last [...]
BHP FACES RISING BID DISCONTENT August 22, 2010 MINING giant BHP Billiton could be left with a diplomatic crisis on its hands if it does not move swiftly to address growing investor disquiet over the cost of the company’s mammoth $40bn (£26bn) hostile bid for Canadian fertiliser giant PotashCorp. BHP will this week attempt to calm shareholder fears at a gruelling series of [...]
Inflation may push rates up to 8 per cent August 22, 2010 INFLATION could peak as high as 10 per cent in the next couple of years, a leading policy think tank has warned, forcing a crippling spike in interest rates up to around eight per cent. Andrew Lilico, the chief economist at the Policy Exchange think tank, believes that once the economic recovery kicks in properly [...]
Coalition under fire over City regulation August 22, 2010 PRESSURE is mounting on the government to rethink the details of its plans to transform the financial regulatory structure in the UK, which senior bankers have warned could close off avenues for discussion between regulators and the industry. Of particular concern to the banks is the new Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), which will answer only [...]
Pinewood investor ups ante on Grade August 22, 2010 MICHAEL Grade has come under fresh fire for his performance as chairman at Pinewood Studios, with activist investor Crystal Amber calling another meeting at this week’s results announcement to discuss his departure from the firm. “We are meeting with the management team on Wednesday, and are in correspondence with other shareholders,” Crystal Amber chief executive Richard [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING August 22, 2010 THE SUNDAYS The Sunday Telegraph TESCO TO OPEN DRIVE-THRU STORE It has moved into banking, pet insurance and telecoms, but Tesco will expand its reach further this week with the launch of the UK’s first ever “drive-thru” supermarket. The service will allow customers to pick up their weekly shop without leaving their car. LIDL SET [...]
Labour close to bankruptcy August 22, 2010 The Labour party is £20m in debt and “on the verge of bankruptcy”, former deputy Prime Minister John Prescott warned yesterday. The 72-year-old ex-ship’s steward, who is campaigning to become party treasurer, said Labour needed to find smarter and more cost-effective ways to take on the cash-rich Conservatives. In an implicit criticism of former leaders [...]
Aim market to return to growth August 22, 2010 The tide of firms delisting from the Alternative Investment Market (Aim) will finally bottom out over the second half of the year, heralding a return to growth for the junior market next year. Deloitte predicts the number of firms on the market will reach a low point of 1,200, a drop of almost 30 per [...]
