Stocking up: autumn tights October 18, 2011 What and where to buy 1 Agent Provocateur Snake hold ups £30, www.agentprovocateur.com 2 Wolford Gisella merino wool £79, www.wolfordshop.co.uk 3 Bebaroque Sea holly print £39.59, www.bebaroque.co.uk 4 House of Holland Super suspender £12, www.prettypolly.co.uk 5 Aristoc Lace tights £12, www.mytights.com 6 Falke Hibiscus pure matt £24, www.my-wardrobe.com
Squat, step and curl your way to ski fitness October 18, 2011 WHETHER you’ve already booked your ski holiday (why, how sensible you are), or are still hunting for the right chalet (the best deals come at the end of October, of course), it’s time to get excited about the slopes. You may think it’s early, but the more prepared your body is, the fewer injuries you’ll [...]
Prevent lasting pain and get back to basics October 18, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT Yesterday saw the start of Back Awareness Week, an initiative designed to promote awareness of back pain and its surrounding issues. It’s just as well, as research shows that over 80 per cent of Brits will experience low back pain at some point in their lives. Here are my top tips [...]
Episode 32: Sleepless in the City – a day in the life with baby twins October 18, 2011 00.00 Gabriella doesn’t “do” nights. Seems it’s an opportunity for babies and parents to bond. So one day ends and another begins with Emma and me feeding the twins. 01.45 Ditto – after an hour’s sleep. 02.15 Harry has colic. I pace the darkened bedroom with him wailing into my shoulder. Emma sleeps soundly. 03.15 [...]
Citroën’s new DS is a C4 evolution October 18, 2011 THE Citroën DS remains one of the coolest cars of all time. Launched in 1955, it came to define Citroën and became a cultural icon for France thanks to its groundbreaking styling and technological innovation. The French manufacturer is hoping that some of that former glory rubs off on its new DS4 – the second [...]
CAR TALK October 18, 2011 BMW 3-SERIES The all-new BMW 3-series has been launched in Munich. BMW’s most popular saloon, which will go on sale in February, is faster and more frugal – across the range – than its predecessor. It also looks quite different and has a long bonnet similar to that seen on the 5 and 7-series models. [...]
Goldman hit by third quarter loss October 18, 2011 Goldman Sachs has posted a $428m net loss in the third quarter, only its second-ever quarterly loss as a public company, hurt by sharp declines in the value of investment securities and customer trading assets. The biggest investment bank in the US saw revenues slump 60 per cent to $3.6bn, from $8.9bn in the third [...]
Inflation at three-year high of 5.2pc October 18, 2011 Inflation in Britain hit a three-year high in September driven by soaring gas and electricity bills, data showed, adding to the severe squeeze on Britons’ living standards as wages have failed to keep up with rising prices. The jump highlights the risk to the Bank of England’s recent move to revive the faltering economic recovery [...]
Air France-KLM ousts chief as it looks to restructure October 18, 2011 Air France-KLM Shas ousted its chief executive and recalled the chief architects of the Franco-Dutch merger with a brief to eradicate losses while preparing for an anointed successor. Europe’s largest airline by revenues, which has fallen behind peers due to a cocktail of costs, debts and competition, said after board talks that recovery and the [...]
Whitbread beats target and hikes dividend October 18, 2011 Britain’s biggest hotel and coffee shop operator Whitbread reported higher-than-expected first-half pre-tax profits and ramped up its interim dividend by over 50 per cent. Whitbread, which operates the Premier Inn and Costa Coffee chains, said underlying pre-tax profits rose by 15.2 per cent to £174.9m in the six months to 1 September against a consensus [...]
