Chrysan: lost in translation? November 12, 2012 RESTAURANT CHRYSAN 1 Snowden Street, EC2A 2DQ Tel: 020 3657 4777 FOOD **** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE ** Cost for two people with drinks: £160 A FRIEND of mine has recently taken up learning Japanese. So, last month, I found myself spending a surreal afternoon watching a Japanese detective drama series, Deka Kurokawa Suzuki, which really [...]
Why making a business out of wine is no mean feat November 12, 2012 THERE CAN be something very impersonal about buying a bottle of wine. You pull something off a shelf with a nice label and some fancy writing and take pot luck. Even if it’s delicious, you don’t really know a great deal about it. There may be a few uninformative notes on the back, perhaps a [...]
Some like it hot November 12, 2012 Hot punches are not in vogue. However, while it might not look as impressive as coolly flipping your cocktail down to freezing, a warm cocktail can better suit our intemperate climate. Even more tainted than the suggestion of a hot cocktail is the practice of making a punch. Punches are all too often the desperate [...]
FTSE 100 flat as market sentiment wanes November 12, 2012 The leading share index was flat in early trading, as market sentiment remained cautious as uncertainty over Greek aid talks and the US fiscal policy outlook was compounded by weak GDP data from Japan. Miners led the blue chip fallers in early deals. On the FTSE All-Share, energy support services firm Cape was down 35.12 [...]
It is time for the BBC to allow its viewers freedom to choose November 12, 2012 WHAT a mess. The BBC, Britain’s most powerful and influential media company, is in crisis; the resignation of its director general hasn’t been enough to halt the chaos. Radical changes are needed to reform, strengthen and preserve the BBC; if Lord Patten, the chairman of the BBC Trust, doesn’t want to introduce them then he [...]
Heritage to sell remaining interest in Kurdistan to Genel November 12, 2012 Heritage Oil said this morning it planned to sell its remaining 49 per cent interest in a field in Kurdistan to Genel Energy to repay a $294m (£185m) loan. Heritage will sell its stake in the Miran gas field in a deal that will see it exiting Kurdistan and focusing on a new project in [...]
BBC’s senior news executives step aside November 12, 2012 Two senior BBC news executives stepped aside this morning, just a day after the chairman said the broadcaster needed a radical overhaul. Director of BBC News Helen Boaden and her deputy Steve Mitchell stepped aside, following director-general George Entwistle’s resignation on Saturday to take the blame for airing false child sex abuse allegations against a [...]
Housebuilders report steady trading November 12, 2012 Housebuilders Taylor Wimpey, Redrow and Bovis Homes this morning said trading remained steady, despite challenging market conditions in the UK. Taylor Wimpey said sales in the second half of this year were similar to the same period in 2011. The housebuilder added that it welcomed the government’s NewBuy scheme, and that it had generated “strong [...]
Japan economy declines by annualised 3.5 per cent November 12, 2012 Japan’s economy shrank by 3.5 per cent year on year over the three months to September, official data showed this morning. Japanese GDP fell by 0.9 per cent over the three months, and was in line with expectations. While US growth showed a modest uptick in the third quarter, Japan and the Eurozone economies are [...]
BBC under fire November 12, 2012 THE BBC was thrown into disarray yesterday as it attempted to limit the fallout from the scandal that saw director-general George Entwistle resign over the weekend. BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten, who appointed Entwistle to the top role at the corporation, said the future of the BBC was at stake if the broadcaster did not [...]
