French fancied to pile on the points in Paris March 18, 2010 FRANCE V/S ENGLAND TOMORROW-7.45PM-BBC1 FRANCE have historically tended to do well in Six Nations tournaments after Lions Tours but to suggest that their faultless record this year is due to the relative tiredness of their opponents is unfair. Marc Lièvremont’s side have been sublime at times over the last six weeks and a comparison of [...]
Derwent plots new property projects as market recovers March 17, 2010 PROPERTY company Derwent London plans to spend more than £260m on new projects in the capital after an improvement in the rental market. The FTSE 250 firm, which specialises in revamping offices in West End locations, unveiled its plans yesterday as it reported a narrowing in annual pre-tax losses for 2009. The company expects capital [...]
CELEBRITY LAWYER CEMENTS HIS STATUS March 15, 2010 CELEBRITY LAWYER CEMENTS HIS STATUS SHOWBIZ and the somewhat more drab world of the law aren’t usually professions that share column inches, but a City immigration lawyer is doing his level best to change that perception. Philip Trott, head of immigration at Bates Wells & Braithwaite solicitors, has been enjoying more than his usual share [...]
Megson in the frame for Hull job after Brown pays price for slump March 15, 2010 HULL CITY chiefs expect to appoint a new manager in the next 24 hours after Phil Brown was effectively sacked for failing to arrest their slide down the Premier League table. Brown, who took the Tigers into the top flight for the first time ever in 2008 but on Saturday saw them slip to 19th [...]
Make the most of your World Cup holiday March 14, 2010 SO, we know now where England will be based for this summer’s World Cup in June and July. Fabio Capello’s guys will set up their training camp in the small town of Rustenburg, 70 miles from Johannesburg and 60 miles from Pretoria. Aside from being a football haven come June with four World Cup stadiums [...]
The sun is shining on property in the Med March 11, 2010 THIS year’s freezing winter may well have proved a tipping point in your decision to invest in a sunny property abroad – and it couldn’t have arrived at a better time. Possibly by the time the time London’s largest overseas property fair, A Place in the Sun (held at Earl’s Court) rolls around 26-28 Mar, [...]
Tullow Oil profit plummets by 92pc March 10, 2010 TULLOW Oil’s full year profits plummeted as a slump in oil and gas prices took the shine off outstanding exploration success. The FTSE 100 oil exploration group posted a 92 per cent drop in after tax profit to £19m, compared to £226m in 2008, while sales revenue shed 16 per cent to £582m. The group [...]
WestLB receives 10 bids March 2, 2010 WestLB has received 10 non-binding bids for its real estate finance unit Westdeutsche Immobilienbank but the offers are below book value, sources said yesterday, stoking fears that a fire sale could spoil real estate asset valuations. There is no current book value for the unit but at the end of 2008, WestLB valued it at [...]
Luxury comes to Abu Dhabi’s glorious desert February 28, 2010 THE Liwa Desert is in the area known as the Empty Quarter, and is the largest uninterrupted stretch of desert in the world. This vast area, which extends into the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, was made famous through the adventures of the late British explorer Sir Wilfred Thesiger who wrote about [...]
An MBA is the gateway to the international marketplace February 24, 2010 AN Australian-born executive based in London and married to a South African banker, Nick Kontopoulos could be seen as the very essence of today’s globe-trotting business internationalist. However it wasn’t until his MBA studies led him to China that he thought that he might end up living and working there. Kontopoulos, a marketing business developer [...]