TIED TO THE TRACK October 4, 2011 West Ham not allowed to ditch athletics facility for 125-year lease of London 2012 Olympic Stadium WEST HAM will not be able to scrap the running track once they have moved into the Olympic Stadium, despite concerns being raised over its effect on sight lines and atmosphere. Baroness Ford, chair of the Olympic Park Legacy [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS October 4, 2011 PwC Andrew Sentance has been appointed as a senior economic adviser at PwC, following his retirement as a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee, effective from 7 November. Prior to serving on the MPC from October 2006 to May 2011, Sentance’s roles included director of economic affairs at the CBI, director of [...]
Fronting a brand new family business October 2, 2011 THE Asprey name is undoubtedly familiar to you. The British luxury brand has been around since the time of Queen Victoria. For 200 years the family sold luxury goods to the world’s well-heeled before being bought out by a devoted customer. Sadly, when William Asprey, the seventh line of the family, came to start up [...]
Robertson: Spurs must end Olympic Stadium row September 28, 2011 SPORTS MINISTER Hugh Robertson last night urged Tottenham to accept a £17m public funding package and drop their legal battle for the Olympic Stadium. Mayor of London Boris Johnson made the take-it-or-leave-it offer, which would helps Spurs build a new ground in north London, yesterday in a bid to head off next month’s scheduled High [...]
A whirlwind weekend in Hong Kong September 25, 2011 Hong Kong is epic. Everything about the city is exaggerated. The skyline. The escalators. The humidity. Once a busy trading port, it still thrives on exchange, be it financial bonds or dried fish. Being an island, Hong Kong has to work harder than other cities because it can’t reach out into the suburbs for a [...]
History lives on in the City of Angels September 18, 2011 WELCOME to LA. Embrace the pain!” jokes leading man Scoot McNairy in the touching 2007 indie flick In Search Of A Midnight Kiss. McNairy’s character is a failed, lonely screenwriter trying to woo a failed, lonely actress (Sarah Simmonds) on a New Year’s Eve date. His poignant words echo around the famous Orpheum Theatre, a [...]
Swann proud of chance to lead England September 14, 2011 ENGLAND spinner Graeme Swann revealed his most difficult task since being handed the captaincy of the Twenty20 side was keeping the appointment a secret for two days. With regular skipper Stuart Broad set to miss the double header against the West Indies next week with a shoulder injury, England have turned to the Nottinghamshire twirler. [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING September 12, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES UNICREDIT CHIEF SIGNALS RIGHTS ISSUE TO INCREASE CAPITAL LEVELS UniCredit has given its clearest signal yet that it will seek to raise its capital buffers as market turmoil continues to hit European bank shares. In his first big interview since becoming chief a year ago Federico Ghizzoni told the Financial Times that details [...]
LONDON’S MAYORS IN THE FRAME FOR STYLE September 4, 2011 WHO ARE the City’s most stylish cyclists? Boris Johnson and Michael Bear, says fashion photographer Horst A Friedrichs, who has immortalised the Mayor of London and the Lord Mayor in a Square Mile photography exhibition of London cyclists on their two-wheeled vehicle of choice. Johnson and Bear are joined in the City Cycle Style exhibition, [...]
theatre HIGHLIGHTS THIS AUTUMN eight of the best September 1, 2011 THE TEMPEST Theatre Royal, Haymarket Ralph Fiennes, soon to be starring in his own film version of Shakespeare’s play Coriolanus, takes on the iconic role of Prospero in this must-see production (see right). It’s the first major London staging of the Bard’s mysterious final play in years, and also happens to offer the prospect of [...]