FOCUS ON: BETHNAL GREEN, E2 May 28, 2009 CITY PAVILION, CHILTON STREET, E2Price: £650,000Located just off Brick Lane and near Spitalfields market, this large three-bedroom apartment offers plenty of space for your money. It is on the second floor of a courtyard building and has a dual-aspect living room with floor-to-ceiling windows. The kitchen is open-plan and recessed to the side with solid [...]
Stoute’s Main Aim set to take Jury Stakes en route to Golden Jubilee May 28, 2009 The Derby is just over a week away and Epsom held it’s annual ‘Breakfast with the Stars’ at the course yesterday. John Oxx, John Gosden, Willie Haggas, Mick Channon and Michael Bell were just some of the trainers on hand to give us the latest news on their Classic hopefuls, while Aidan O’Brien and Jim [...]
The INSIDER May 28, 2009 I travelled all the way to Beverley on Wednesday and saw a very nice two-year-old filly win the Hilary Needler. Don’t Tell Mary is one to look out for and now I fancy her to follow-up in the Queen Mary at Royal Ascot. Sadly, the evening ended on a bad note when Manchester United were [...]
Q&A: INTERIORS May 28, 2009 Alan WaxmanMANAGING DIRECTOR AT LANDMASSQ. Dear Alan, My house is small and lacking in storage space. Is there anything I can do to make the place seem larger and use the space more efficiently?A. The first thing about having a small place is that the choice of colours is crucial to maximise the space, along [...]
Life is returning to the Docklands property market May 28, 2009 Nowhere gratifies the spirit of the property doom-mongerers like Docklands – loaded as it is with architectural emblems of the boom years; a development graveyard of flats left empty as banks fell and buyers took fright. In other words, a homebuyers’ nightmare. This, however, is proving an unfairly dim view to take. Charlie Fisher, sales [...]
DOCKLANDS HIGHLIGHTS WHERE TO EAT OUT May 28, 2009 DOCKMASTER’S HOUSEBrand new Indian restaurant that combines a glossy contemporary style with a lovely Georgian house. It’s one of Canary Wharf’s new glamorous dining spots. Hertsmere Road, E14 8JJ, 020 7345 0345 WAPPING FOODPeople trek far for a meal in this extraordinarily renovated hydraulic power station. It’s chic, low-key and a serious treat for the [...]
FA Cup final looks set to be low-scoring affair May 28, 2009 CHELSEA vs. EVERTON SATURDAY 3PM, ITV1 & SETANTA SPORTS 1 Goals have been in short supply in recent FA Cup finals and there is no reason to think that tomorrow’s clash between Chelsea and Everton will be any different. In fact, half of the last 14 finals have seen no more than one goal scored [...]
IN-RUNNING TRADING HINTS May 28, 2009 If you are planning to trade tomorrow’s game in-running on Betdaq, it may interest you to know that in the last 20 years, the side scoring first has gone on to win 14 of those 20 games within 90 minutes. In that period, only twice has the side falling behind first gone on to lift [...]
AILING GM SET FOR FINAL HUMILIATION May 28, 2009 GENERAL MOTORS (GM) is set to file for bankruptcy on Monday in a deal that will see Barack Obama’s US government own 72.5 per cent of the ailing car-maker. The way forward was cleared yesterday after dissident bondholders agreed to a deal that will give them 10 per cent of GM once it has emerged [...]
BBC, Google plan global iPlayer site May 28, 2009 THE BBC is in talks with Google about launching an international version of its hugely popular iPlayer, City A.M. has learnt. Director General Mark Thomson is leading negotiations with Google boss Eric Schmidt, which could see a global version of the internet TV service hosted on Google’s YouTube. The two firms would then split advertising [...]
