Be chairman of the board in this City penthouse May 6, 2010 SPENDING one’s working day in the boardroom is one thing, but living in one? That’s the option awaiting anyone who snaps up this smart-as-they-come penthouse on the edge of the City. The triplex three bedroom apartment called The Provenance (you’ll just have to get used to the name) sits at the top of a Victorian [...]
Venturing into the unknown May 6, 2010 ASKING entrepreneurs what they wanted to be when they were younger is always interesting. Did they have dreams of becoming an astronaut? A milkman? For Patrick Reeve, the founder of Albion Ventures, a venture capital firm, his first hankering was to become an archaeologist, but that idea was shelved early on in favour of business, [...]
SMEs looking for support at Westminster May 6, 2010 SMALL and medium-sized firms make up 99 per cent of all UK businesses, but although our nation relies on entrepreneurs to provide employment to millions of citizens, small firms have felt ignored by politicians during the election campaign and the economic downturn. A survey by accountancy firm Haines Watts, for which 650 business owners from [...]
ADVERTISING Q&A May 6, 2010 Q. I have recently started a business and am wondering whether I should be planning for an advertising campaign? A. Lots of entrepreneurs won’t be able to afford to spend on an advertising campaign when they first start out, it’s usually something that comes down the line. However, Carl Harris, business director at Cuba UK, [...]
The girl that’s helping City ladies sparkle May 6, 2010 LAUREN Adriana could have taken the easy route of gliding, It-Girl style, through her twenties. At 24, she is fashion aristocracy, being the grand-daughter of designer Paul Smith and the child of fashion world insiders. She’s friends with all the right people (including the world’s most famous jeweller Joel Arthur Rosenthal, known as JAR) and [...]
High concept meets low aspirations May 6, 2010 Film HOT TUB TIME MACHINE Cert: 15 ** PRESUMABLY the makers of Hot Tub Time Machine started with the title – as titles, and indeed ideas, for high-concept extreme silliness go, it’s a humdinger. What couldn’t be funny about a hot tub that transports you back to the neon-coloured, mullet-sporting 1980s? Hmmm – well, pretty [...]
ALSO OUT THIS WEEKEND May 6, 2010 FILM THE BACK-UP PLAN Someone allowed J-Lo to make a film again, supposedly a romantic comedy. Bad idea. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Lame and pointless attempt to remake the Freddy Kruger slasher flick. FURRY VENGEANCE Even worse, Brendan Fraser gets set upon by CGI woodland animals. I mean really. DVD THE PRISONER The recent remake [...]
ON IN LONDON | SIX OF THE BEST May 6, 2010 ART: Angela de la Cruz Head along to the Camden Arts Centre to decide for yourself whether de la Cruz, a painter who inflicts deliberate damage on her canvases, is worth her nomination for the Turner Prize as announced this week. THEATRE: Posh The Royal Court’s cracking show offers a satirical look inside the privileged [...]
Timepiece to land trial before going on to bigger things May 6, 2010 THERE is no better trainer of a filly than Henry Cecil. The master of Warren Place showed off his skills in preparing a member of the equine fairer sex for a Classic last week when only the Stewards stopped 66/1 Jacqueline Quest from landing the 1000 Guineas. However, his filly TIMEPIECE can ease the pain [...]
the INSIDER May 6, 2010 The Dee Stakes looks like a watching race rather than a betting one. Desert Myth has reportedly been going great guns at home and on his sole start broke his maiden well. Some tipsters have suggested that the 2000 Guineas wasn’t a good race after saying all winter that it was a high quality renewal. [...]
