SELLING March 4, 2010 Russell Hunt MANAGING DIRECTOR OF PROPERTY HUNT Q.Dear Russell, we are cash buyers but we keep losing out on houses. I thought cash buyers were supposed to have a better chance. Any advice? A.Buying your home is one of the biggest decisions that you ever have to make and it is also one of the [...]
Add a bit of fun to your nursery March 4, 2010 1 Jeeves and Wooster pendant lights by Leigh Harmer, £338.10 at www.leighharmer.co.uk 2 Coco Stylewood baby lounger by bloom, £130 at www.johnlewis.com 3 Pirate chest of drawers by Steve Allen, £299 at www.steveallen.co.uk or www.mydeco.com 4 Spot pillowcase, Cath Kidston, £10, www.cathkidston.co.uk 5 Natural History Museum remote controlled rattle snake, £32.95 at Harrods, www.harrods.com 6 [...]
Confidence in retail sector lifts Wall St March 4, 2010 US stocks rose yesterday as better-than-expected monthly sales from retailers and a drop in the number of Americans filing claims for jobless benefits pointed to stabilisation in the economy. The boost from February retail sales, which were expected to have been hurt by severe weather across the US, lifted retailers’ shares as the S&P retail [...]
A fly-away internet success March 4, 2010 THE entrance to Cheapflights, the flights comparison website, is based just off Baker Street and contains little more than a vintage advert for Pan Am that hangs on a wall and a couple of leather chairs. Its understated style is also embodied in executive chairman Hugo Burge. The Bedales and Cambridge-educated geographer was in his [...]
How to cope when a tragedy strikes March 4, 2010 ROSE Gray, the founder of the River Café who died earlier this week, is a loss to UK gastronomy. Gray’s passion for Italian food was embodied in the business she founded with Ruth Rogers in 1988. The Michelin-starred restaurant is sure to survive the loss of one of its founders. But her death should give [...]
FINANCE March 4, 2010 Q. I need to secure a loan to expand my business, but in this environment are banks still willing to lend? A.Yes, according to Stephen Alambritis, chief spokesman for the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB): “Access to finance was a major problem last year, but the availability of money set aside specifically for small businesses [...]
Animation fails to bring Alice alive March 4, 2010 Film ALICE IN WONDERLAND Cert: PG THE idea of Tim Burton turning his imaginative powers to Lewis Carroll’s children’s fantasy, and roping in his old mucker Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in the process, seems so blazingly obvious it’s a wonder it took them this long. Sadly, it seems what they were waiting for [...]
SIX OF THE BEST March 4, 2010 FILM Ponyo Japanese auteur Hayao Miyazaki’s latest flight of imagination is his uniquely surreal take on The Little Mermaid. ART Richard Hamilton Tate Modern’s fascinating retrospective of the political works of the painter, sculptor and father of British Pop Art. THEATRE Off the Endz Former So Solid Crew member Ashley Walters stars in Bola Agbajes’s [...]
OUT THIS WEEKEND March 4, 2010 FILM LEGION Supernatural thriller with Paul Bettany as an angel saving the world from God’s wrath. Sure. ONDINE Colin Farrell plays an Irish fisherman who thinks he’s caught a mermaid in his net. CASE 39 Squinty-eyed Renee Zellwegger is a social worker working with a seriously creepy kid. DVD FANTASTIC MR FOX Stop-motion animation of [...]
London’s new power couple March 4, 2010 THE day I meet Carolina Herrera and her business partner and daughter, also called Carolina Herrera, I am foolishly wearing trainers. It is the wrong choice. Not because they are in any way snooty, but because I forgot when getting dressed this morning that I am meeting two of the most elegant women alive today. [...]
