The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from August 2007:
THE LONDONER'S DIARY
Aug 01, 2007
ROYAL ASCOT winner Drawnfromthepast is among the 12 declared for... [Derived headline]
Aug 01, 2007
Man killed in street stabbing
Aug 01, 2007
VODAFONE Derby winner Authorized will make his next appearance in the... [Derived headline]
Aug 01, 2007
THE LONDONER'S DIARY
Aug 01, 2007
THE LONDONER'S DIARY
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THE LONDONER'S DIARY
Aug 01, 2007
The white stuff to chill ; WINES OF THE WEEK
Aug 01, 2007;
MET CHIEF 'HUNG OUT TO DRY ON MENEZES' ; Head of anti-terror squad is the only officer criticised over Tube shooting
Aug 01, 2007; ... SENIOR officers at Scotland Yard today expressed fury over the"scapegoating" of Britain's antiterror chief over the shooting deadof Jean Charles de Menezes. Andy Hayman, head of counter-terrorism and intelligence, isexpected to be singled out for his actions in the aftermath of ...
Fay Maschler's best of 2007
Aug 01, 2007 ... LIFE CULTURE: PAGES 32 33 Our food ...
New-boy Hipkiss can bury 'rubbish' jibe
Aug 01, 2007 ... New-boy Hipkiss can ...
FREDDIE'S BACK IN THE SWING
Aug 01, 2007 ... Driving force: Andrew Flintoff steps up his recovery from ...
Terry's fitness fight for opener Blues skipper may miss ; Blues skipper may miss Wembley showpiece
Aug 01, 2007; ... JOHN TERRY is losing his battle to be fit for Sunday's CommunityShield clash with Manchester United at Wembley. The Chelsea skipper pulled out of last night's 2-0 win overBrondby after aggravating his broken toe in last weekend's defeat byRangers. Worryingly for head coach ...
Twist in Tevez row aids Blades
Aug 01, 2007; ... SHEFFIELD UNITED directors met with lawyers today to discusstheir next step in light of the latest twist in the Carlos Tevezaffair. The emergence of a second contract which West Ham offered to theArgentine has given the Yorkshire club fresh hope in their 50millioncompensation ...
Cash boost for Donmar as Frost/Nixon grips the US ; British show makes $8.5m on Broadway
Aug 01, 2007; ... IT was one of last year's biggest West End hits and now theDonmar Warehouse production of Frost/Nixon has taken Broadway bystorm. The drama, about David Frost's fateful interviews with USpresident Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, hasgrossed $8.5 million ...
Rayhani can show the old guard he is here to stay
Aug 01, 2007; ... RAYHANI looked a real improver when scoring at Newmarket on hisreturn to action this season and is ready to step up and take thescalps of some familiar old favourites in tomorrow's ABN AmroGoodwood Cup at 3.25. One of the reasons for the popularity of stayers' races in theFlat ...
IRISH motormouth Michael O'Leary, ; CITYSPY
Aug 01, 2007 ... IRISH motormouth Michael O'Leary, pictured, may have been onholiday for Ryanair's firstquarter results, but that did not stophis customary volley of abuse at airport owner BAA. "Abject facilities, a third rate service and extortionate prices,particularly at Stansted," he rants. Not ...
EVERYONE knows China and India ; CITYSPY
Aug 01, 2007 ... EVERYONE knows China and India are the world's new powerhouseeconomies. But do their citizens benefit? The two nations accountfor 64% of GDP in the 23 Asian- Pacific countries but rank just 15thand 17th ...
TAKING STOCK ; YOUR AT-A-GLANCE GUIDE
Aug 01, 2007 ... Deutsche Bank today delivered second-quarter profits up 32% toe2.7 billion (1.8 billion) on revenues e6.9 billion higher at e8.9billion as its investment banking arm avoided the US subprime crisisand made a fortune on credit trading. Property giant Savills continued its drive into ...
SOME admirable old-style Scottish ; CITYSPY
Aug 01, 2007 ... SOME admirable old-style Scottish parsimony from HSBC, which usedthe same picture of four Chinese ladies fan-dancing in front ofShanghai landmarks for this year's ...
TAYLOR WIMPEY bosses are ; CITYSPY
Aug 01, 2007 ... TAYLOR WIMPEY bosses are in bullish mood following the successfulmerger of Taylor Woodrow and George Wimpey to create Britain'sbiggest housebuilder. But where ...
Bean's at war with Warnock
Aug 01, 2007 ... SEAN BEAN hit back at Neil Warnock after the former SheffieldUnited boss accused the actor of ranting at him in a foul-mouthedtirade following the club's relegation. Warnock claimed Bean stormed into his office after the 1-0 defeatto Wigan and swore at him in front of ...
Electrodes help brain injury man to speak
Aug 01, 2007; ... DOCTORS have successfully used electrical impulses to treat abrain-injured man who could only communicate through small eye orfinger movements. The 38-year-old American, who suffered the severe injury sixyears ago, could not talk, chew or swallow, and had to be fedthrough a ...
Jol lands a new princely talent
Aug 01, 2007 ... MARTIN JOL is delighted to have signed Kevin-Prince Boateng,describing him as "one of the biggest talents in Germany". Tottenham beat a host of other clubs to sign the Germany Under-21 midfielder from Hertha Berlin in a 5.4million deal. "Kevin is a talented player," said ...
Wenger makes a Sunu signing
Aug 01, 2007 ... ARSENAL have completed the signing of French striker Gilles Sunufrom Chateauroux. The 16-year-old son of a former Togo international has signed afour-year deal. Sunu's ...
Palace keep up unbeaten run
Aug 01, 2007 ... Charlton could CRYSTAL PALACE stretched their unbeaten pre-season run to eight games by drawing 1-1 with Belgian sideAnderlecht at Selhurst Park. Anderlecht, who will be playing in the Champions League thisseason, went ahead through Walter Baseggio after 26 ...
"YOU DON'T tend to go to new ; CITYSPY
Aug 01, 2007 ... "YOU DON'T tend to go to new highs and then immediately start abear market," says Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist atCharles ...
Charlton could lose Diawara
Aug 01, 2007 ... CHARLTON'S Souleymane Diawara could be joining Bordeaux just ayear after moving to The Valley. The Senegal defender, 28, was signed from Sochaux for ...
Tonight'sfriendlies
Aug 01, 2007 ... (7.45pm unless stated) Selected games: Aldershot v Charlton,Bolton v Espanyol (8pm), Hull v Newcastle, Leyton Orient ...
Handful of gains as bears deliver another mauling
Aug 01, 2007; ... JUST when City investors thought it was safe to move back intothe stock market they found themselves on the receiving end of yetanother mauling by the bears. In a jittery day for traders and investors alike, the FTSE 100index managed to reduce some of the damage, reducing its ...
LONDON'S favourite chain of Lebanese ; CITYSPY
Aug 01, 2007 ... LONDON'S favourite chain of Lebanese restaurants, Maroush, isworried about losing its upmarket image. Cherie Blair has taken tofrequenting her local Maroush round ...
POSH PROPERTY firm Savills ; CITYSPY
Aug 01, 2007 ... POSH PROPERTY firm Savills may have banned its estate agents andsurveyors from using social networking website Facebook duringoffice hours, but plenty of others in the industry have not.Bidwells has a group dedicated to "the Bidwellian Way working toohard but trying twice as hard when ...
BUT City Spy does wonder quite ; CITYSPY
Aug 01, 2007 ... BUT City Spy does wonder quite how the BBC will react to thetakeover. The Apprentice is all founded on S'r'Alan appointing thewinner to ...
CONGRATULATIONS to both BSkyB ; CITYSPY
Aug 01, 2007 ... CONGRATULATIONS to both BSkyB and Amstrad that not a word of theformer's 125 million takeover of the latter was remotely ...
TAKING STOCK ; YOUR AT-A GLANCE- GUIDE
Aug 01, 2007 ... Property giant Savills continued its drive into America today,buying New York-based real estate investment bank ...
Handful of gains as bears deliver another mauling ; MARKETROUND-UP
Aug 01, 2007; ... JUST when City investors thought it was safe to move back intothe stock market they found themselves on the receiving end of yetanother mauling by the bears. In a jittery day for traders and investors alike, the FTSE 100index managed to reduce some of the damage, reducing its ...
Helicopters and high jinks in PR stunt
Aug 01, 2007; ... WATCH out, King Newt here comes Captain Boris. You might be forgiven for thinking Mr Johnson is on the campaigntrail as he poses with a military helicopter and a clutch of airhostesses at Denham aerodrome. The pilot's uniform suggests he is a safe pair of hands on ...
How long to clear passport control at Heathrow? ; Average 15 minutes, says the Home Office An hour, says head of immigration staff
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE leader of Britain's immigration officers has said today thatthousands of passengers a day are waiting an hour or more to clearpassport control at Heathrow. John Tincey said the delays were so severe that some travellerson short-haul journeys spend longer in immigration queues ...
WILL HAYLER'S GUIDE TO TOMORROW'S OTHER TV RACES AT GOODWOOD (C4)
Aug 01, 2007 ... 2.15 The ultra-consistent WANNABE POSH has finished in the firstthree in all of her last 10 starts and this Listed event looks oneof the less-competitive contests of the week. Having never run overa mile and three-quarters, there are some questions to answer overher stamina but ...
Dettori at the double as Ramonti holds on
Aug 01, 2007 ... SHEIKH MOHAMMED'S Godolphin team put a difficult start to theseason behind them with a double on the second day of action atGlorious Goodwood. Ramonti (9-2) and Frankie Dettori claimed a second Group 1 inless than two months when taking the big race of the day the SussexStakes ...
BAA: Passengers to face ten more years of misery
Aug 01, 2007; ... AIR PASSENGERS face at least another decade of misery at London'smain airports, BAA has warned. The Spanish-owned operator of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted saidthe opening of Terminal Five in March and other planned terminalimprovements would not be enough to end chronic ...
Man killed in street stabbing
Aug 01, 2007 ... A MAN has died after he was stabbed in the street. The victim, in his early twenties, was attacked just before 8pmyesterday on the South Lambeth estate in Kennington. He ...
Unions vote on 24-hour Tube strikes over collapse of Metronet
Aug 01, 2007; ... MORE than one million Tube commuters face 24-hour strikes whenthey return from the August bank holiday. The two largest Tube unions, the RMT and the TSSA, today joinedforces to ballot 2,600 members working for maintenance giantMetronet in a row over jobs and pensions. Union ...
Electrodes help brain injury man to speak
Aug 01, 2007; ... DOCTORS have successfully used electrical impulses to treat abrain-injured man who could only communicate through small eye orfinger movements. The 38-year-old American, who suffered the severe injury sixyears ago, could not talk, chew or swallow, and had to be fedthrough a ...
'Fireman Sham' pleads guilty
Aug 01, 2007 ... A MAN pleaded guilty today to impersonating a firefighter duringthe recent floods. Peter Jennings, 49, from Alvina Lane, Kirkdale, Liverpool,admitted three charges of obstructing an employee of the FireService during flooding in Tewkesbury. Stroud magistrates court heard how ...
Boris is ready for take-off ; Poll puts Johnson ahead in race for mayor
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE race for London Mayor broke wide open today when a pollrevealed a "Boris Bounce" in the capital. In the first sign that Ken Livingstone could be in trouble, asurvey showed Conservative MP Boris Johnson making gains amongtraditional Labour and Liberal Democrat voters. A ...
Labour 'keeping options open on autumn election'
Aug 01, 2007; ... LABOUR today sought to dampen speculation that Gordon Brown couldcall a snap general election this autumn. Senior party officials played down a claim by Martin Salter, avice-chairman of the party, that the Prime Minister had put them onnotice for a poll as soon as ...
Tory leader's friend in row over pass for Commons
Aug 01, 2007; ... election' THE Tory leader faced a fresh row today over aparliamentary pass given to a fundraiser. Andrew Feldman, a friend of David Cameron from, university, is amember of the party's treasury team and was given a researcher'spass by the Conservative peer Lord Harris of ...
EMI falls to Terra Firma as 2.8m bid scrapes home ; In brief
Aug 01, 2007 ... EMI's 110 years of independence came to an end today as TerraFirma, the private-equity group run by Guy Hands, won acceptancesfrom over 90% of its shareholders for a 2.8 billion takeover bid.Terra Firma's 160p-a-share cash offer was recommended by the EMIboard but teetered on a ...
Cameron: West must not fail in Afghanistan
Aug 01, 2007; ... Labour 'keeping DAVID CAMERON today warned that the West couldnot afford to fail in Afghanistan. Arriving in Kabul at the start of a twoday fact-finding mission,the Tory leader called for a "hard-headed assessment" of thesituation. While he praised the work of British troops, ...
HBOS boosts payout after mortgage fiasco
Aug 01, 2007; ... HALIFAX owner HBOS today promised its army of 2.1 million smallshareholders much bigger dividend payouts in the future after itmade a huge mistake in its main mortgage market for the first halfof the year. Chief executive Andy Hornby conceded that the bank's attempts topush its ...
Helicopters and high jinks in PR stunt
Aug 01, 2007; ... WATCH out, King Newt here comes Captain Boris. You might beforgiven for thinking Mr Johnson is on the campaign trail as heposes with a military helicopter and a clutch of air hostesses atDenham aerodrome. The pilots uniform suggests he is a safe pair of hands on thejoystick of ...
Boris is ready for take-off ; Poll puts Johnson ahead in race for mayor
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE race for London Mayor broke wide open today when a pollrevealed a Boris Bounce in the capital. In the first sign that Ken Livingstone could be in trouble, asurvey showed Conservative MP Boris Johnson making gains amongtraditional Labour and Liberal Democrat voters. A ...
Labour keeping options open on autumn election
Aug 01, 2007; ... LABOUR today sought to dampen speculation that Gordon Brown couldcall a snap general election this autumn. Senior party officials played down a claim by Martin Salter, avice-chairman of the party, that the Prime Minister had put them onnotice for a poll as soon as October. But they ...
Graveney: We pushed to limit
Aug 01, 2007 ... ENGLAND chairman of selectors David Graveney admits "both sidespushed it to the limit" during the ill-tempered Trent Bridge Test,writes David Lloyd. But, like skipper Michael Vaughan, Graveney does not believeEngland's behaviour "crossed the line" in a match which saw ...
Late arrival Hipkiss has the confidence to bury rubbish jibe ; One former England star didn't rate him, but the centre is now looking to reach the World Cup. By Chris Jones
Aug 01, 2007; ... AS Dan Hipkiss looked around the dressing room before making hisLeicester debut against Biarritz, he was comforted by the arrival ofAustin Healey. But the England international took the young centre to one sideand told him: "This is your first game, isn't it? You must benervous ....
Mother killed children after release from care
Aug 01, 2007; ... A MOTHER released from a mental hospital who battered her twochildren to death was today sent to a medium secure mental hospitalindefinitely. Schizophrenic Viviane Gamor, 29, was committed to the John HowardCentre, Hackney after killing her two children in January this ...
TV bottom pincher is cautioned
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE man who pinched Channel 4 news presenter Sue Turton's bottomlive on air as a joke has been let off with a police caution. Turton was speaking to camera on Oxford's flood-hit Osney Islandwhen Rufus Burdett pinched her. Police branded it "stupid andobnoxious" behaviour and ...
C4 bans phone-in contests
Aug 01, 2007 ... CHANNEL 4 is to ban profit-making phone-in contests to restorepublic trust following faked competitions.Today the TV stationpublished findings of an inquiry into Richard and Judys You Say, WePay quiz, in ...
Cipriani owners admit 5m tax evasion in U.S.
Aug 01, 2007 ... THE father and son owners of Mayfair restaurant Cipriani haveadmitted evading nearly 5million worth of taxes in America. Arrigo Cipriani, 73, and his son Giuseppe, 42, must repay about4.8 million in back taxes and penalties after pleading guilty tofiling falsified tax ...
MET CHIEF HUNG OUT TO DRY ON MENEZES ; (1)Head of anti-terror squad is the only officer criticised over Tube shooting(2)Met fury as terror chief is scapegoat
Aug 01, 2007; ... SENIOR officers at Scotland Yard today expressed fury over thescapegoating of Britains anti-terror chief over the shooting dead ofJean Charles de Menezes. Andy Hayman, head of counter-terrorism and intelligence, isexpected to be singled out for his actions in the aftermath of ...
Catch me if you can, Ken
Aug 01, 2007 ... Flying high: Boris Johnson hams it up as a character from CatchMe If You Can ....
Moscow's marvel - all thanks to one dodgy Londoner ; AND INCIDENTALLY
Aug 01, 2007; ... THE world's most famous ballet company returned to the Coliseumthis week: with a flamboyant production of Le Corsaire estimated tocost almost 1 million, the Bolshoi has kept up its extravagantreputation. Yet the Bolshoi is a dance company unlike any other. Asa Russian national ...
The Invisible Man ; Alistair Darling, the new Chancellor, has one of the shrewdest heads in government but he also has the unenviable task of stepping into the shoes of his old boss
Aug 01, 2007; ... AT THE Treasury's summer drinks party, Alistair Darling shared amischievous observation: "It's unnerving walking into the PrimeMinister's office these days and not finding somebody smiling at youon the other side of the desk," he mused. That pithy summary of TonyBlair's ever-ready ...
Murray splits with Butorac
Aug 01, 2007 ... JAMIE MURRAY is to end his tennis partnership with American EricButorac after the US Open. Murray and Butorac are 13th in the ATP men's doubles race andhave won main tour events in Memphis, San Jose and Nottingham thisyear. The Scot, elder brother of British No1 Andy, also ...