WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING November 28, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES AMAZON SEEKS TO EXPAND GLOBALLY Amazon says it plans to revamp its international e-commerce platform to make it easier for the company to reach customers in new markets. The online retailer, the world’s largest by number of visitors, operates online businesses in six countries outside the US. It says it has set up [...]
Tube strike to disrupt Monday’s travel November 26, 2010 A 24-hour strike on London’s underground rail network will go ahead on Monday after talks over planned job cuts broke down, heralding the fourth walk-out since September. The strike, by members of the RMT and TSSA unions, will begin on Sunday evening, and is likely to cause further travel disruption for thousands of commuters already [...]
Spurs’ 10-day wait for stadium verdict November 25, 2010 TOTTENHAM expect to find out within 10 days whether they have the all-clear to begin work on building a new £450m stadium next to White Hart Lane. The club received a boost yesterday when Mayor of London Boris Johnson backed Haringey Council’s decision to grant planning permission for the 55,000-seater venue. Now Spurs have three [...]
Moving in on Britain’s top state schools November 25, 2010 WITH the standards of living rising and employment ever more insecure, committing your child to private education has become a risky business. Parents who have children edging towards that crucial eleventh year will no doubt be trying to unpick the admissions policies to the best state schools. They are also likely to have entertained the [...]
Trains get go-ahead head November 25, 2010 THE government yesterday confirmed the £6bn Thameslink project and a plan to order hundreds of new train carriages to ease overcrowding on the railways, but said some schemes would face more delays. Ministers also failed to announce the builders of the new rolling stock and deferred a decision about replacing the UK’s ageing Intercity 125 [...]
WHAT THE OTHER PAPERS SAY THIS MORNING November 22, 2010 FINANCIAL TIMES GENEVA SET TO TRUMP LONDON IN OIL TRADING Geneva will leave London behind and become the world’s most important trading hub for physical energy commodities, including oil, as leading companies relocate dozens of traders to Switzerland, according to industry executives. The transfers threaten the UK capital’s leadership in physical crude and oil products [...]
Hitachi tipped to win revamped high speed train deal November 22, 2010 THE government is tipped to confirm Japanese train manufacturer Hitachi this week as the winner of a slimmed-down deal to replace the UK’s ageing Intercity 125 high-speed trains. It is thought ministers have re-jigged an existing agreement with Hitachi’s consortium Agility Trains to make the £7.5bn trains it offered for the UK’s Intercity Express (IEP) [...]
Defence boss to take over at water firm November 22, 2010 WATER group United Utilities is recruiting the boss of a subsidiary of Italian helicopter and aircraft maker Finmeccanica to replace outgoing chief executive Philip Green. United, which provides water and sewage services to about 7m people in north-west England, said Steve Mogford will become chief executive on 31 March when Green steps down. Mogford is [...]
How to turn Cameron’s vision of an entrepreneurial decade into a reality November 18, 2010 DAVID Cameron has called on the nation’s “doers-and-grafters, inventors and entrepreneurs” to save us from our troubled finances. He’s not wrong. According to research commissioned by Enterprise UK, a rise of just one per cent in self-employment rates could boost the UK’s GDP by around 1.5 per cent and add approximately £22bn to the UK economy. [...]
Roadworks action demanded November 18, 2010 BAA CHAIRMAN Sir Nigel Rudd has added his name to a list of nine signatories to a letter urging the government to stop dragging its feet on roadworks policy in London. The letter, sent out by the office of London Major Boris Johnson, was today delivered to transport secretary Philip Hammond and warns that there [...]