Intelligent design: Made.com co-founder Chloe Macintosh talks knitting and the importance of opportunities April 26, 2015 When Chloe Macintosh sat down with a friend of a friend, she didn’t expect to get a job out of it – or to go on to become the co-founder of e-commerce furniture company Made.com. But Brent Hoberman, co-founder of Lastminute.com and mydeco.com, isn’t any old coffee meet-up – and there’s nothing ordinary or unremarkable [...]
BMW’s Peter Walker says being an official partner of England Rugby is no joke for his firm April 26, 2015 Before April finally gives way to May, let us take you back to the start of the month, and the avalanche of sometimes extremely entertaining, sometimes immeasurably unamusing April Fools that organisations feel duty bound to overwhelm us with to show how cutting edge or just plain “one of us” they are. BMW did one. [...]
Premier League: Van Gaal fumes as United come unstuck against in-form Toffees April 26, 2015 EVERTON 3 MANCHESTER UNITED 0 MANCHESTER United manager Louis van Gaal blasted his team’s lack of fight after they suffered successive Premier League defeats for the first time under the Dutchman. Fine goals from James McCarthy, John Stones and Kevin Mirallas earned resurgent Everton an emphatic fifth victory in six top-flight games and prevented United [...]
Wasps take aim at play-offs with win over Exeter April 26, 2015 WASPS boss Dai Young believes that the club have tightened their grip on the top six with yesterday’s win over Exeter and has refused to rule out finishing in the play-off places. Young’s side improved their hopes of securing European qualification with a 36-29 win over their play-off rivals at the Ricoh Arena. An early [...]
Hazard and Kane big winners on PFA award night April 26, 2015 CHELSEA playmaker Eden Hazard was last night crowned PFA Player of the Year at the 42nd edition of the awards held at the Grosvenor Hotel in London. The 24-year-old followed up his PFA Young Player of the Year gong last term by taking this season’s major accolade after netting 18 goals across all competitions for [...]
Low oil prices lead to highest number of first-quarter profit warnings since 2009 April 26, 2015 The low price of oil has caused the number of profit warnings issued by UK-listed companies to go up, according to a report by Ernst & Young (EY). Since June last year, the price of the commodity has dropped by over 40 per cent and currently stands at $65 per barrel. It's an improvement from [...]
General Election 2015: Rent controls pledged by Labour to woo “generation rent” April 26, 2015 Ed Miliband is seeking to woo a generation of voters priced out of the property market with a promise to stop landlords making significant increases to rents. The Labour leader has pledged to cap rent rises at no more than the rate of inflation over the term of a three-year tenancy if elected at the [...]
Theatre review: Ah, Wilderness! April 24, 2015 Young Vic | ★★★★☆ The life of American playwright and Nobel Laureate Eugene O’Neill was often tragic but in Ah, Wilderness! he mines his youth for comedy, and the results are unexpectedly delightful. The action takes place over the 4 July weekend, 1906, mostly at the Miller family’s Connecticut beach house. They suffer [...]
Film review: The Falling April 24, 2015 Cert 15 | ★★☆☆☆ Jean-Luc Godard once said that a story should have a beginning, middle and end, but not necessarily in that order. The Falling has several middles, even more beginnings, and an end that doesn’t resolve any of them. This is no feat of narrative ingenuity – just a mess. The setting [...]
City Moves for 24 April 2015 | Who’s switching jobs April 23, 2015 Deloitte Real Estate Gerry Biddle has been appointed senior specialist business rates consultant in Deloitte’s real estate division’s valuation advisory and business rates team. He was responsible for setting up the London specialist rating unit of the Valuation Office Agency. Aviva Investors Simon Young has been appointed UK equities fund manager at Aviva’s asset management [...]