EPISODE 24: Late nights and Handel operas August 22, 2011 EMMA is passionate about Handel, especially the operas. She’s sung in several Messiahs and we make – well, I make, on her behalf – an annual donation to the Foundling Museum. The Museum commemorates the Foundling Hospital, where annual performances of the Messiah, sometimes conducted by Handel himself, raised funds for the abandoned children in [...]
Quick ways to get in shape August 22, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT LAST week, a study from the Lancet revealed that exercising for just 15 minutes a day can add three years to your life and cut the risk of cancer by a heartening 10 per cent. Here are my top five ways to maximise those fifteen minutes: you won’t just achieve those [...]
Oasis of life on cold Chiswell Street August 22, 2011 Chiswell Street Dining Rooms 56 Chiswell Street, EC1Y 4SA Tel: 020 7614 0177 FOOD *** SERVICE ***** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £35 CHISWELL Street, off Moorgate, is not likely to be on your post-work route unless you work there or live in the Barbican. For it’s a long, dreary street, sort of empty-feeling, [...]
Apple reaches top of the world – but will it stay there? August 22, 2011 @steve_dinneen LAST week Apple achieved what even a year ago seemed all-but impossible – it became the biggest company in the world. In shuffling, albeit briefly, past oil giant Exxon Mobil, it joined an ultra-exclusive club of just 10 companies to have held the top spot in the history of the S&P 500. And unlike [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS August 22, 2011 BIGGEST FOOD EVENT OF THE YEAR: FRENCH LAUNDRY TO COME TO HARRODS Before Noma and the Fat Duck, the restaurant that usually vied with El Bulli for the “world’s best” title was California’s French Laundry. It’s still seen as one of the greatest places to eat on the planet (by the few who’ve managed to [...]
ECB buys €14bn of government bonds August 22, 2011 The European Central Bank bought €14.291bn (£12.4bn) of government bonds last week, down from €22bn the previous week but still enough to signal its renewed bid to tame debt market tensions is not about to wilt. The ECB reactivated its controversial bond-buying programme earlier this month after Italy and Spain came closer to succumbing to [...]
John Lewis: We will buck Xmas gloom August 22, 2011 John Lewis said it would outperform a falling retail market this Christmas, benefiting from the strength of its presence in the capital and investment, particularly in Internet shopping. Andrew Murphy, retail director at the department store chain, said UK consumers were feeling cautious and vulnerable amid government cutbacks, rising prices and fears the economy could [...]
IG boosted by market volatility August 22, 2011 The recent market volatility and heavy trading volumes have boosted sales at British spread-betting company IG Group, the company said. IG said it now expected revenues of more than £94m for the quarter ending 31 August, up from £79m in the corresponding period a year earlier. “IG Group Holdings has benefited from record levels of [...]
Oil price drops on hopes of Libyan export resumption August 22, 2011 Brent crude dropped more than $3 to below $106 a barrel on the potential for a resumption of exports from OPEC-member Libya as a six-month civil war there appeared close to an end. Libya pumped around 1.6M barrels per day (bpd), nearly two per cent of global supply, before the war cut output. Most of [...]
Amlin slumps to first half loss August 22, 2011 Lloyd’s of London insurer Amlin crashed to a £192.3m pre-tax loss in the first half of 2011 after absorbing a surge in claims from the Japanese earthquake and other natural disasters. Amlin had earlier this month already flagged up a loss of about £180m, some £65m more than analysts were expecting, because of a bigger-than-expected [...]
