How to be a water baby July 12, 2010 YOU never regret a swim,” the saying goes, and anyone who swims regularly will concur. It’s the ultimate summer workout – you can huff and puff outdoors without breaking a sweat. But if you want to work out in the water, you’re going to have to resist the temptation to just splash and paddle. You [...]
FIVE OF THE BEST OUTDOOR POOLS July 12, 2010 HAMPSTEAD HEATH SWIMMING PONDS, NW5 1QR Unlike anything else in London, the Hampstead Heath ponds are three distinct oases of nature and calm just a few kilometres from the centre of the world’s largest cities. Swim amid the lilies, willows and assorted plant life in one of three ponds that date back to 1860: one [...]
CELLULITE-BUSTERS: WE REVIEW TWO July 12, 2010 CELLUTOX AROMA SPA OCEAN WRAP After booking a last minute summer break, I had one week to get myself bikini-ready. Although I upped my gym-going, I quickly realised that nature would need a hand. A buff, a scrub and a seaweed wrap were called for, so the Cellutox sounded fantastic. After the buffing, a delicious [...]
A superb Ambassadeur’s reception July 12, 2010 The Milroy 5 Hamilton Place, W1J 7ED, Tel: 020 7317 6108 Cost per person without wine: £40 THOSE accustomed to the opulence of Les Ambassadeurs, the exclusive London casino, may not be blown away by the Milroy, its in-house restaurant. But now that it has opened to the public for lunch, those of us for [...]
TASTING NOTES July 12, 2010 IN his current book describing London’s early Victorian gambling scene, Gentlemen & Blackguards, author Nicholas Foulkes points out that Crockford’s, then the most famous and exclusive gaming club in town, was as known for its fine food as it was for relieving aristos or their fortunes. As with The Milroy (see above), that’s still the [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS July 12, 2010 LARDER OF LONDON REOPENS For a foodie city, one thing London is shamefully short of is quality food markets. Anyone who’s had enough of fighting their way through the Borough Market hoards can now instead fight their way through the West End hoards each Saturday at the newly-launched Foodlovers Market in Soho, once reputed as [...]
Falkland Oil and Gas shares down as exploration draws blank July 12, 2010 SHARES in Falklands Oil and Gas slid by almost two thirds after its efforts at the Toroa exploration well drew a blank. The AIM-listed explorer confirmed that the Toroa F61/5-1 well will now be plugged and abandoned after it was drilled to a total depth of 2476 metres but failed to encounter any reservoired hydrocarbons. [...]
UK economy grows by 0.3pc July 12, 2010 THE economy grew at the same pace as previously estimated in the first three months of this year, according to official data. Figures from the Office of National Statistics showed that the economy grew by 0.3 per cent. The long-awaited GDP figures came from revised data after concerns that the initial figures released had not [...]
Santander expands branches with SEB deal July 12, 2010 SANTANDER has agreed to buy Swedish bank SEB’s German business for 555 euros (£466.5m) The sale will double the size of Santander’s German branch network. SEB has 173 branches in that country and a million customers. It wants to concentrate on merchant banking and wealth management in Germany. Santander’s acquisition is its second major move [...]
BAA passenger numbers hit by strike July 12, 2010 BAA has said the number of passengers using its airports fell in June because of disruption sparked by the BA cabin crew dispute. Passenger numbers in BAA’s airports fell 1.7 per cent compared with June 2009. BAA said that without the strike it would have expected traffic to have been at the same levels as [...]
