Recently added articles from The Evening Standard (London, England):
Family homes lead the rally in capital's prices
Jul 01, 2009; ... A SPRING rise in London's house prices began in prime south-westareas, figures suggest today. The bounce is said to be reverberating around the capital,offering hope that the market is stabilising. The average house price in the capital rose by 4.8 per cent fromApril to June ...
NOW BROWN TAKES OVER KEY RAILWAY ; EAST COAST LINE IS TAKEN FROM AILING NATIONAL EXPRESS EAST ANGLIA AND C2C FRANCHISES ARE ALSO AT RISK Adonis: No disruption to services
Jul 01, 2009; ... THE GOVERNMENT moved to nationalise one of Britain's main railservices today and threatened to seize control of two more. Gordon Brown's Transport Secretary Lord Adonis stepped in afterNational Express said it would walk away from its loss-making EastCoast franchise by the end of ...
TWO key dates for the BBC ; IN THE AIR
Jul 01, 2009; ... TWO key dates for the BBC: 14 July sees the publication of theannual report and 16 July is when directorgeneral Mark Thompson andother senior BBC executives are grilled by the Culture, Media andSport Select Committee. As this column has pointed out, Thompson'srefusal to give up ...
Bischoff lined up to succeed Blank at Lloyds
Jul 01, 2009 ... LLOYDS Banking Group today refused to confirm that veteran bankerSir Win Bischoff will replace Sir Victor Blank as its next chairman. Bischoff, 67, who until February was chairman of Citigroup, hasemerged as UK Financial Investments' favourite to oversee thecompletion of the merger ...
Dangers are mounting for BBC that won't listen to critics ; Director-general Mark Thompson fails to grasp scale of public anger
Jul 01, 2009; ... DOES the BBC have a death wish? I dislike lining up with thecorporation's knee-jerk critics, but I have to admit that I amrapidly becoming an exasperated supporter of Britain's, and theworld's, most renowned public service broadcaster. It is so hard to defend some of the BBC's ...
BEAUTY SPOT BEACH WAVE HAIR
Jul 01, 2009; ... LONDON is more like a seaside resort this week, so it'sappropriate that beachy waves are the summer's hair trend. Theseasprayed look, as seen on the S/S 09 catwalks for AlessandroDell'Acqua, Moschino Cheap & Chic and Paul & Joe, was trademarked bySienna Miller and Cameron Diaz and has ...
National Express fight pledge after East Coast line sacking
Jul 01, 2009; ... NATIONAL Express today said it will go to war with the Governmentafter the Department for Transport sacked it from the East CoastMain Line out of King's Cross and threatened to strip it of itsLiverpool Street and Fenchurch Street franschises. In a day of turmoil for National ...
Cattles has a boardroom clearout amid crisis [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... CATTLES, the stricken doorstep and subprime lender, today clearedout its boardroom and sacked seven senior directors after aninvestigation into accounting irregularities. Chief executive David Postings and chairman Norman Broadhurstwill leave the company immediately after lawyers ...
QUOTE OF THE DAY [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... 'Feel a bit of a prat wearing the flashers' mac in this heat,but, hey, Nike pay me very ...
KNIGHT can see the funny [...] [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... KNIGHT can see the funny side. "Not surprisingly, we receive ahuge number of calls at the BBA, many of which cast doubt on whetherthe parents of some BBA staff are married," she says. "Then thereare those who make proposals which we would have to becontortionists to carry out; a few ...
Royal Academy takes on an Arctic role ; in brief [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... The Royal Academy is to present an exhibition on climate change.The institution is joining forces with Cape Farewell, which has sentartists to the Arctic to investigate the issue. earth: Art of aChanging World will include a Cornelia ...
RETREAT FROM PARIS ; A new exhibition opening next week celebrates the forest of Fontainebleau that inspired the Barbizon painters. Philippa Stockley follows in their footsteps
Jul 01, 2009; ... FIFTY-FIVE miles south from Paris and a million miles in spirit,at the far end of the tiny village of Barbizon in Seine et Marne,with its one long main street, rue Grande, lined by stone-built andshuttered houses swathed in wisteria and pretty roses, you findyourself at the sudden edge ...
YOUR USUAL TABLE? SAME SPOT, DIFFERENT DATE AS SAATCHI DINES WITH LILY
Jul 01, 2009 ... Art dealer Charles Saatchi, a man so shy he often fails to appearat his own gallery openings, was spotted last night dining atScott's in Mayfair ...
Handball's banking on help from Lloyds
Jul 01, 2009 ... Sponsors of the London Olympics are to help the Games organiserssell the less sought-after 2012 tickets. Already Lloyds TSB, theofficial 2012 bank, has had talks about helping to shift thousandsof ...
Win tickets to second Ashes Test at Lord's
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE London Evening Standard has teamed up with BOSS Fragrances,official partner of the England Cricket Team, to give you and afriend the chance to win tickets to watch England play Australia inthis summer's Ashes Series. We have a pair of tickets to the secondnpower Test Series on ...
Rose buys time as the sales picture gets better at M&S
Jul 01, 2009; ... SIR Stuart Rose today made an attempt to calm shareholder angerat Marks & Spencer with better-than-expected sales at the HighStreet giant. Like-for-like sales, which strip out new store space, were down1.4% in the 13 weeks to last Saturday, far better than the 5.9%slump seen last ...
Northern Rock is set to ask for Pounds 3bn more
Jul 01, 2009 ... NORTHERN Rock today said it will need up to Pounds 3 billion morefrom the taxpayer once it splits into a so-called good bank, whichcan be sold off, and bad bank, which will be almost certainlyretained by the Treasury. But sources close to the nationalised bank played down ...
Aberdeen boosted by its Swiss deal ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Jul 01, 2009 ... ABERDEEN Asset Management today said assets under management willrise by nearly Swfr63 billion (Pounds 35 billion) when it completesthe Pounds 298 million purchase of Credit ...
TV HIGHLIGHT
Jul 01, 2009 ... Wimbledon - Day 9 (BBC2, 1pm - 3.25pm; 5.50pm - 8pm BBC1, 1.45pm -6pm) Men's ...
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Jul 01, 2009 ... 'Feel a bit of a prat wearing the flashers mac in this heat, but,hey, Nike pay me very ...