THREE OTHER GOBSMACKING VIEWS May 24, 2010 40/30 AT THE GHERKIN (MEMBERS ONLY), CITY If you’re not a member, then make sure that you know someone who is, and get them to invite you as much as possible for lunch at this extravagantly windowed restaurant. It’s like eating on a rooftop, only far more refined. 25 St Mary Axe EC3A 8AA, ww.searcys.co.uk. [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS May 24, 2010 RIVERSIDE DINNER IN A YURT Taste food straight from the fields with this travelling Riverford field kitchen, which will set up shop in nine different spots round the country in May. Food is served in a yurt, with a menu taken from the award-winning Riverford Field Kitchen in Devon. Dishes include swiss chard and anchovy [...]
Chancellor details £6bn cuts May 24, 2010 CHANCELLOR George Osborne has announced a £6bn cuts package which will hit government departments. He detailed deep cuts with the department of transport to see £683m shaved from its budget. Meanwhile the business department will be cut to the tune of £836m. The education department will take a £670m hit but the savings will be [...]
Business leaders call for cuts to red tape May 24, 2010 BUSINESS leaders have called the Government to cut back on red tape which cost companies an estimated £88.3bn last year. The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) said in a report that regulations were costing businesses dear. Director general of the BCC said: “The Burdens Barometer highlights a clear problem for UK business. ‘The cost of [...]
BP miss “deadline after deadline” in oil spill crisis May 24, 2010 BP’s has missed “deadline after deadline” in its tackling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a top US official has said. US interior secretary Ken Salazar claimed the company had fallen short on its pledges to stem the flow of oil caused by a drilling platform explosion a month ago. The comments came as [...]
AGE OF AUSTERITY AS FIRST £6BN CUT May 23, 2010 THE GOVERNMENT has started preparing people for an age of austerity, announcing £6bn of immediate spending reductions, paving the way for much tougher cuts further down the line. Details of where the axe will fall began to emerge last night, with Vince Cable’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) expected to bear the brunt, [...]
HSBC chair set to quit bank soon May 23, 2010 STEPHEN Green is set to step down as executive chairman of HSBC as part of a massive overhaul of its management structure. Former Goldman Sachs banker John Thornton is understood to have been lined up to succeed Green. The firm will break from tradition by making the chairman a non-executive role. The move is part [...]
BA strike on as talks fail May 23, 2010 A WAR of words broke out between British Airways (BA) and trade union Unite after negotiations between the two fell apart, signalling that BA’s customers will face up to 15 days of disruptions. Unite joint general secretary Tony Woodley called on BA late yesterday to drop the withdrawal of full travel perks for striking cabin [...]
We need more facts and less ranting May 23, 2010 THE end game is fast approaching for the Wall Street reforms, which will have a large impact on all sections of London’s financial and business services industries; the Senate has voted on its bill and we now await reconciliation with the House of Representatives’ version. Most of the measures in the Senate’s version would be [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING May 23, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES PRINCE ANDREW’S TRADE ROLE DEFENDED Buckingham Palace defended Prince Andrew’s globetrotting role promoting British business on Sunday after a newspaper sting appeared to show his former wife selling access to him for £500,000, offered by a reporter posing as a tycoon. Both the royal household and the government said the Duke of York’s [...]
