Recently added articles from The Evening Standard (London, England):
- Speaker's wife kept shopping taxis waiting at our expense
- May 14, 2008; NICHOLAS CECIL ... COMMONS Speaker Michael Martin's wife kept a taxi waiting whileshe did her supermarket shopping and then claimed it on expenses, itemerged today. The revelation is likely to raise fresh questions over her use oftaxpayers' cash, but Mr Martin and his wife Mary were cleared todayof ...
- Drive ban for Soames after quad bike trip
- May 14, 2008; PAUL CHESTON ... TORY MP Nicholas Soames was disqualified from driving for twomonths and ordered to pay [pounds]250 in fines and costs today fordriving his uninsured quad bike on the open road. Mr Soames had been following the Crawley and ...
- World No1 Henin to quit tennis
- May 14, 2008; CHRIS JONES ... JUSTINE HENIN will stun tennis today by retiring aged just 25,writes Chris Jones. The seven-time Grand Slam champion will confirm her decision at apress conference this afternoon. The world No1 had hinted all was not well earlier this monthahead of the German Open, where she ...
- Horse ahead by a nosedive after saddle trips her
- May 14, 2008; KIRAN RANDHAWA ... SHE has fallen head over heels. Literally. After the saddle slipped from underneath jockey Anna-KatharinaBromann, her mount Schattenlady crashed into the safety rails,unseating the jockey. In it subsequent attempts to dislodge the slipped saddle ...
- Shock as Johnston chases a funds lift of [pounds]212m
- May 14, 2008 ... JOHNSTON Press, publisher of regional newspapers ranging from theYorkshire Post to the Worthing Herald, stunned investors with a[pounds]212 million fund-raising today most of it through a rightsissue. The group said advertising revenues had fallen sharply in recentweeks, and ...
- Russian phones supremo sacked ; TELECOMS
- May 14, 2008 ... MISSING City AM founder Leonid Rozhetskin's rival Leonid Reimanhas been sacked as Russia's Communications Minister. Reiman, who effectively controlled Russia's mobile phone market,became minister in 1999. Before London-based Rozhetskin went missing from his ...
- Small shop strain
- May 14, 2008 ... SMALL traders in London bear a disproportionate share of thecountry's tax burden. Because business rates reflect high Londonrents, regardless of an individual business's level of profits, thepressure on small shops is heavy. This burden is all part of thestruggle for traders who lack the ...
- Julianne in the can at Cannes
- May 14, 2008 ... Let it roll: actress Julianne Moore at Cannes today, where ...
- Busy Boris's heavy workload ; He takes on job of overseeing transport and will resume his columns
- May 14, 2008; PAUL WAUGH, GIDEON SPANIER ... BORIS JOHNSON maintained the frantic pace of his mayoralty todayas it emerged that he will personally oversee London's transport aswell as resume his newspaper columns. Less than a week after confirming that he will chair theMetropolitan Police Authority, the Mayor made a ...
- BANK CHIEF: RECESSION IS A REAL RISK ; King gives his bleakest forecast yetJobless up, inflation up, growth fallingJobless up, inflation up, growth falling
- May 14, 2008; JONATHAN PRYNN, HUGO DUNCAN ... THE Governor of the Bank of England warned for the first timetoday that the British economy faces recession. In a gloomy assessment, Mervyn King became the first such seniorfigure to use the "R word" and said it was "quite possible" theeconomy would contract this year and early ...
- Norris set for comeback at the helm of Crossrail
- May 14, 2008; KATHARINE BARNEY, PAUL WAUGH ... FORMER Tory mayoral candidate Steve Norris is expected to becomechairman of Crossrail in a return to public life, it can be revealedtoday. The man who lost out to Ken Livingstone four years ago will alsotake a seat on the board of both Transport for London and the ...
- Boys murder girl, 14, over pregnancy fears ; WORLD IN BRIEF
- May 14, 2008 ... A PREGNANT 14-year-old was strangled by three boys and her bodyburnt and thrown down a well in Italy after she claimed one of themwas the father. The boys, aged 15, 16 and ...
- Curfew after bombs kill 60 in 'pink city' ; WORLD IN BRIEF
- May 14, 2008 ... A DAY-LONG curfew was imposed in Jaipur's "pink city" in westernIndia today, a day after eight bombs, most strapped to bicyclesripped through its bustling streets, killing about 60 ...
- Brown starts fightback with [pounds]200m plan to buy unsold homes for poor
- May 14, 2008; JOE MURPHY ... GORDON BROWN launched his political fightback today with plans tobuy unsold homes to help poor families into good properties. Some [pounds]200 million of taxpayers' money will be used toscoop up newly built properties that developers have been unable tosell. Only an estimated ...
- Desperate hunt for coach trip Britons lost in quake zone
- May 14, 2008; AMAR SINGH ... FEARS were growing today over the safety of 19 British touristswho remain missing after the Chinese earthquake. Tour operator Kuoni said they were "working round the clock" tocontact the party, who were travelling in the disaster zone onMonday when the 7.9-magnitude tremor ...
- 19-year-old arrested over Jimmy's death
- May 14, 2008; BENEDICT MOORE-BRIDGER ... DETECTIVES hunting the killer of Jimmy Mizen have arrested a 19-yearold man. Officers swooped on prime suspect Jake Fahri yesterday afternoonafter an all-ports alert. A warrant for Fahri's arrest was issued after the teenagerallegedly dumped blood-stained clothes at his ...
- Darling: [pounds]2.7bn tax giveaway could stave off a slump
- May 14, 2008; JOE MURPHY ... ALISTAIR DARLING today compared his [pounds]2.7 billion giveawayto the popular American tax rebate saying it could stave off aslump. The Chancellor said he was "worried" about the impact of petroland food price rises on family budgets, which risked depressing ...
- Ofsted plans to boost inspections at popular schools
- May 14, 2008; DOMINIC HAYES ... POPULAR schools could see their reputations challenged as theeducation watchdog prepares to get tough on substandard teaching. Ofsted announced today that teachers in schools previously judgedto be performing satisfactorily or better would face more scrutinyduring lessons by ...
- Pilot averted disaster in Stansted emergency ; NEWS IN BRIEF
- May 14, 2008 ... A CARGO plane escaped disaster when three of its four enginesfailed after taking off on a night flight from Stansted. TheLockheed L188C's 38-year-old pilot turned back as the plane ...
- Cayzers set to reap TGE riches on AIM ; IN BRIEF
- May 14, 2008 ... CALEDONIAN Investments, the quoted vehicle of the City's Cayzerfamily, is set to make a fortune on the float tomorrow of a Germanshipping firm. TGE, which designs storage systems for ...
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