FX30d aims for Infiniti and beyond May 15, 2012 It’s possible that you haven’t heard of Infiniti but it’s a company that’s prepared to kidnap a colour in the pursuit of brand awareness. How very modern. Infiniti wants to render us all unable to see the colour purple without thinking about its brand. During lunch, even my mashed potatoes were purple. Launched 20 years [...]
CAR TALK May 15, 2012 Ferrari looks to its famous racing day Ferrari is aiming to paint the track red in September when its famous Ferrari Racing Days weekend returns to Silverstone. Vintage F1 Ferraris and iconic models – including the FXX and 599XX – will all undertake demonstration laps. Ferrari owners will get a chance to race their own [...]
Cocooned in style at the Ritz’s Salon May 15, 2012 THE Salon is a little known part of the Ritz, up on the seventh floor. It’s a surprisingly unguilded haven – plainly decorated, and quiet but for the civilised murmur of ladies having their hair and nails done and the odd door closing softly behind someone going in for a treatment. Into this rarefied atmosphere [...]
EPISODE 56: OVER THE LIMIT May 15, 2012 We’ve walked to school in silence, Noel swinging his book bag, but as we enter the playground Noel asks, “Daddy, why were you sleeping in the spare room?” I’m about to attempt an answer when Billy dashes past us. Noel wheels into his best friend’s slipstream and they are gone. Somehow, during this manoeuvre, Noel [...]
Prep for summer with Rodial’s new sculpt treatment May 15, 2012 FIT IN THE CITY This week I continue my search for the city’s best beach shape-up regimes. TRIED & TESTED: THE POWER PLATE/RODIAL SUMMER SCULPT Every so often a collaboration occurs that’s so sexy you sign up for it without really knowing what it is. This summer’s sexiest link-up is between Power Plate (www.powerplate.com/uk) and [...]
Greek leftists reject proposal for technocrat government May 15, 2012 Greece’s president has asked politicians to stand aside and let a government of technocrats steer the nation away from bankruptcy, but left-wing parties have already rejected the proposal and look set to force a new election they reckon they can win. Party leaders, deadlocked since an election nine days ago, have convened at the presidential [...]
Rebekah Brooks charged with perverting course of justice over phone hacking scandal May 15, 2012 Rebekah Brooks has been charged with interfering with a police investigation into a phone-hacking scandal that has rocked the tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s media empire and sent shockwaves through the British political establishment. Brooks was charged with concealing material from detectives, conspiring to remove boxes of archive records from Murdoch’s London headquarters, and hiding documents, computers [...]
UK goods trade deficit stable May 15, 2012 Britain’s goods trade deficit stayed largely unchanged in March despite a rebound in exports to countries outside the European Union as overall import values also grew to a record level, official data showed. The Office for National Statistics said the goods trade deficit inched down to £8.56bn in March from £8.59bnin February. Economists had forecast [...]
Eurozone narrowly avoids recession May 15, 2012 The Eurozone just avoided recession in early 2012 but the region’s debt crisis sapped the life out of the French and Italian economies and widened a split with paymaster Germany. Euro zone gross domestic product stagnated in the first quarter, the EU’s statistics office Eurostat said. That was a touch better than forecast by economists, [...]
Enterprise Inns pins hopes on Olympics May 15, 2012 Enterprise Inns reported slightly weaker than expected profits but said celebrations centering on the Olympics and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee this year would help offset tough trading conditions and keep the pub group on track for the full year. The company, which has over 6,000 pubs across Britain, also said it had cut bank borrowings [...]
