Marcus Wareing’s top five European romantic tables February 3, 2010 TO me a great restaurant must encompass location, ambience, as well as great food, wines and service. Top fine dining restaurants must have the element of romance in order to achieve the ambience to match everything else.” BRAS, LAGUIOLE, FRANCE “A stunning restaurant set high in the mountains of Laguiole in the southern Auvergne. The [...]
Virgin Racing ready to make history as F1’s first digital car makes test debut February 3, 2010 NEWCOMERS Virgin Racing have launched their revolutionary car – the first to be designed, built and tested entirely on computer. Driver Timo Glock, who has only raced the car on a simulator, will test the VR-01 in the flesh for the first time today at Silverstone. The design process for F1 cars typically takes into [...]
Ex-champs head Aintree list February 3, 2010 RACING: Each of the last three Grand National winners have been entered for renewal for the 2010 race, on 10 April. Last year’s 100-1 hero Mon Mome and runner-up Comply Or Die, who won in 2008, and 2007 champion Silver Birch are in included in a 112-horse list – the lowest since 2000. Comply Or [...]
Bastareaud gets French recall February 3, 2010 RUGBY UNION: France have recalled centre Mathieu Bastareaud and Benjamin Fall to the side to take on Scotland in their Six Nations opener at Murrayfield on Sunday. Stade Francais star Bastareaud regains his place despite lying about being assaulted in New Zealand in June. Full-back Clement Poitrenaud, wing Aurelien Rougerie and flanker Fulgence Ouedraogo also [...]
Woods should show humility February 3, 2010 GOLF: Legendary Tom Watson believes Tiger Woods has to “show some humility” when he returns to the golfing circuit. The world No1 is currently taking time out to attend to his private life after allegations of marital affairs emerged at the end of last year. Watson said: “He messed up. He knows he messed up. [...]
City rents jump on supply crunch February 2, 2010 RENTS in the Square Mile will rocket by 19 per cent this year as a slowdown in the rate of new developments creates a supply crisis, property consultant Knight Frank warned yesterday. Rates are predicted to jump to £52.5 per square foot as international companies expand their City headquarters and the availability of space falls. [...]
Man Utd bond deal slammed February 2, 2010 MANCHESTER United’s controversial £500m bond issue was last night slammed as the worst performing launch of the past two years. The bond, which is part denominated in sterling and partly in US dollars, has seen its price slide to 93p in the pound following worries over the club’s high debts and volatile revenue profile. The [...]
Jobless rises not over yet February 2, 2010 BRITAIN will have to endure a further deterioration in the unemployment rate over the next two years while net debt will rise for longer than the Treasury currently expects, a leading think-tank will say today. In its quarterly forecasts, the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (NIESR) predicts that the jobless rate will only [...]
Tory economic plan is a damp squib February 2, 2010 IT should have been an important moment, the day the Tories unveiled their masterplan to sort out the economy. So it was with some trepidation that I turned to George Osborne’s 23-page document, tantalisingly entitled “A new economic model”. I shouldn’t have bothered: the report is a damp squib. A few of the proposals are [...]
Car sales fall in Germany again February 2, 2010 New car registrations in Germany, Europe’s largest auto market, fell in January for the second month in a row, bucking the trend in other major European markets that are growing thanks to government incentives. The VDIK foreign carmakers association said registrations fell 4.2 per cent versus January 2009 to around 181,500 vehicles, the weakest monthly [...]
