FOCUS ON: GUILDFORD June 28, 2012 ALBURY HEIGHTS Price: £4.95m Albury Heights is a substantial family home recently built in the Georgian style. It includes six bedrooms and six en suite bath/shower rooms, reception hall, drawing room, dining room, family room and office. Contact Savills on 01483 796 820 or go to savills.com. ENNISMORE AVENUE Price: £1.85m A five bedroom double-fronted [...]
NEED TO KNOW | AREA INSIGHT June 28, 2012 TRANSPORT Guildford is located within easy commuting distance of London but sits next to the rolling countryside so many City workers crave at the weekend. Guildford mainline station offers a frequent train service to London Waterloo taking approximately 35 minutes. A season ticket will cost £890 for three months or just over £3,000 for a [...]
Spider-Man reboot really is Amazing June 28, 2012 Reviews by Steve Dinneen FILM THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN Cert 12A **** Restarting a franchise just five years after the last one finished is either very brave or very cynical. Okay, it’s the second one – Spider-Man is one of Marvel’s hottest properties, guaranteed to fill cinemas. It is just as well, then, that Marc Webb’s [...]
Extra-time beckons in final that is just too close to call June 28, 2012 SPAIN ITALY Sunday – 7.45 pm BBC One SPAIN have quietened the doubters and now they have the chance to silence them in the European Championship showdown against Italy on Sunday. It might have been more of a slog than their previous journeys to the finals of Euro 2008 and the 2010 World Cup, but [...]
Palazzo Bianco to cap off an incredible month for Gosden June 28, 2012 JOHN Gosden was crowned leading trainer at last week’s Royal Ascot for the first time in his illustrious career. It was an incredible feat to notch five winners during the most competitive racing week of the year and he looks to have an excellent chance of claiming his second Northumberland Plate tomorrow afternoon (3.20pm). I [...]
FTSE led down by scandal-hit Barclays June 28, 2012 The FTSE 100 slipped this morning as miners dipped and Barclays was dented by the Libor scandal while it was confirmed that the UK had lurched back into recession. Britain’s economy shrank by 0.3 pe rcent during the first three months of this year, official data confirmed, leaving the nation in its second recession in [...]
FTSE led down by scandal-hit Barclays June 28, 2012 The FTSE 100 slipped this morning as miners dipped and Barclays was dented by the Libor scandal while it was confirmed that the UK had lurched back into recession. Britain’s economy shrank by 0.3 per cent during the first three months of this year, official data confirmed, leaving the nation in its second recession in [...]
UK lurches back into recession June 28, 2012 Britain’s economy shrank by 0.3 per cent during the first three months of this year, official data confirmed on Thursday, leaving the nation in its second recession in four years. Data from the Office for National Statistics also showed that the economy contracted at a faster pace than previously thought in the final three months [...]
House prices slip in June June 28, 2012 House prices dropped 0.6 per cent in June, according to figures from the Nationwide. It said the end of the stamp duty holiday in March, which lifted the market early in the year, had contributed. The annual fall in prices is 1.5 per cent, the sharpest decline in almost three years, the building society said.
Debenhams sales rise June 28, 2012 Debenhams, Britain’s second largest department store group, showed its resilience in the economic downturn by beating forecasts for quarterly underlying sales and winning market share even though it faced a deluge of rain in April. The firm, ranked second in Britain after employee-owned John Lewis JLP.UL, said on Thursday sales at stores open over a [...]
