Theatre review: Bradley Cooper’s physical performance is a little too good in The Elephant Man June 5, 2015 Theatre Royal Haymarket | ★★☆☆☆ Bradley Cooper’s performance in The Elephant Man is an impressive feat of physical acting that’s a little too good for a largely uninspired play. In one of the few genuinely innovative scenes, we first see Cooper as a near-naked, barrel-chested vision of human perfection. As Joseph Merrick’s many [...]
BBC sells White City site for £87m to Stanhope and Japanese firm Mitsui Fudosan June 5, 2015 The BBC has announced the sale and sublet of its Media Village site in an £87m deal with Stanhope and Mitsui Fudosan. Read more: BBC offers James May and Richard Hammond £1m to stay Following an 18-month negotiating process, four acres of freehold land will be sold and six buildings in White City leased as part [...]
Young’s Seafood to go it alone as part of takeover June 4, 2015 YOUNG’S Seafood, the Grimsby-based fish manufacturer, will be hived off into a standalone company as part of a takeover of its owner Findus Group. Consumer group Nomad Foods, which owns fish finger maker Birds Eye, on Wednesday said it was in exclusive talks with the owners of Findus Group to buy the group. Findus yesterday [...]
What the Tories mean for employees: From fewer strikes to more free childcare June 4, 2015 In the run-up to the Queen’s Speech, the suggested repeal of the Human Rights Act dominated the headlines. But now, it’s worth giving the government’s proposals for workers more time. The coalition made great play of reducing the number of costly, time-consuming and unwarranted employment claims that businesses were forced to deal with. Now, [...]
Andrew Flintoff: ‘I can’t remember England this strong’ June 4, 2015 Ex-England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff tells Ross McLean how he expects his old side to beat Australia and regain the urn Former captain Andrew Flintoff insists the current England side is the strongest he can recall and one that is primed to regain the Ashes which were unceremoniously surrendered 18 months ago. England head [...]
London is the European capital of flushing cocaine down the loo June 4, 2015 London is the number one city in Europe for cocaine-filled sewage, flushing away an average of 737mg per 1,000 people in any one week. The estimate, calculated by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, is based on a comparison of 50 cities across the continent. The UK capital beats Amsterdam, which [...]
Tony Parsons: The rock critic turned crime writer on his new book and voting for the Conservatives June 4, 2015 DC Max Wolfe, hero of The Murder Bag and The Slaughter Man, is every bit as butch as his name suggests. He’s tough and loyal, decent but dangerous. For a certain kind of Top Gear-watching, Fleming-weaned middle-aged man, he’s the very pinnacle of masculinity. When he’s not assaulting paedophiles or wrestling with murderers, you can [...]
Timeless classics: The right watch will never go out of fashion June 4, 2015 You know exactly what period of history someone is talking about if they mention drop waists and Evelyn Waugh, or baggy jeans and grunge. Fashion, literature and music are the cultural touchstones by which we navigate our recent history. This doesn’t really hold true in the world of watches, though; the best ones are timeless. [...]
Birthday Bordeaux: In praise of Chateau Lynch-Bages, the quintessential Claret and the best present an oenophile could wish for June 4, 2015 I recently had a Big Birthday, my half century in fact, so you can imagine I took excessive care with the wine list when some old friends came round for dinner. We had a lovely white Monthelie 2008 to start and a 1963 port to round off the evening. But the star of the show [...]
Birds Eye owner Nomad Foods gets taste for Findus takeover deal June 3, 2015 Birds Eye owner Nomad Foods is in talks to buy Crispy Pancake maker Findus, in a deal which would cement the firm’s dominance in the frozen food market. Nomad, an acquisition vehicle for hedge fund tycoon Noam Gottesman and consumer boss Martin Franklin, said it was in exclusive early stage talks with the owners of [...]