The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from June 2009:
Murder-hunt tycoon 'acted in self-defence' ; Kinga came at me with lipstick stun gun, suspect tells ex- girlfriend
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE tycoon wanted over the murder of his millionaire girlfriendwas attacked by her on the night she died, a friend claimed today. Ian Griffin said he was assaulted by Kinga Legg shortly beforeshe was found battered to death in the bathroom of their Paris hotelroom. The former ...
Nestle staff walk and talk to be world's fittest firm
Jun 01, 2009; ... "WALKING meetings" and water have replaced boardroom discussionsand after-work drinks at one of London's biggest firms. More than 600 desk-bound Nestle workers have been ordered to walkmiles around their office as the food company tries to prove it hasthe world's healthiest ...
Job fears for Vauxhall workers as GM set to file for bankruptcy
Jun 01, 2009; ... VAUXHALL'S parent company General Motors was expected to file forChapter 11 bankruptcy protection today in a move which putsthousands of British jobs in doubt. GM -- the biggest car manufacturer in the world until last year -- is desperately seeking to restructure its stricken ...
It's all a question of location
Jun 01, 2009 ... SIR Victor Blank must be pleased that this Friday's annualmeeting of Lloyds Banking Group takes place in Edinburgh. Unlike Sir Fred Goodwin, who had to face the hostility of localshareholders at last year's Royal Bank of Scotland annual meeting,Blank must be hoping that most of his ...
Setting 999's wheels in motion ; Are you a biker wanting to make a difference? Then join the motorcycling paramedics on the road helping London patients
Jun 01, 2009; ... LONDON Ambulance Service paramedics have taken delivery of 12 newmotorcycles on which to respond to patients in the capital. The new bikes will be used to answer 999 ambulance calls incentral and east London, areas where heavy traffic congestion canslow response times. Shaun ...
TRADER TALK
Jun 01, 2009 ... SMALL-cap boutique Aberforth Partners has ramped up its exposureto specialist printing business Domino Printing Sciences from7,652,500 shares to 10,991,921 or 10.07%, worth Pounds 23.63million. Aberforth manages around Pounds 1.2 billion in retail andinstitutional small-cap mandates. The ...
PORTFOLIO
Jun 01, 2009 ... BUY VODAFONE Charles Stanley reckons investors should snap upshares in telecoms giant Vodafone, giving it an accumulate rating.It notes that corporate activity, especially in Germany, Ghana,Poland, South Africa and Qatar, is continuing to develop "atrelatively low cost" and that ...
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Tom's passion ; As Arcadia is revived in the West End and his translation of The Cherry Orchard opens at the Old Vic, the playwright lets down his guard
Jun 01, 2009; ... ISEEM," says Tom Stoppard, "to be failing in my intention to beas boring as I possibly can be for selfprotection." It's true.During our conversation the normally cautious and circumspect 71-year-old playwright has railed against modern architecture andNorman Foster's "sinister" gherkin, ...
Chrysler goes bankrupt as GM waits in the wings
Jun 01, 2009; ... AMERICAN car and jeep giant Chrysler formally went bankrupt todayas part of a Washington rescue plan which it is hoped will be atemplate to save General Motors. With GM set to file for bankruptcy protection today, thousands ofGM workers in the UK at Vauxhall returned to work today ...
Lloyds ponders sale of Insight ; NEWS IN BRIEF
Jun 01, 2009 ... LLOYDS Banking Group is considering a sale of Insight Investment,the fund manager it acquired as part of the deal to take over HBOS.Deutsche Bank, HBOS's advisers, have been asking potential buyers ...
Long, profitable life of vaccines means its not just the ill clamouring for them
Jun 01, 2009; ... ADIRTY-BROWN brick building close to Northern Line station MillHill East is an unlikely place to find the saviour of thepharmaceuticals industry. But there, in a "highcontainment"laboratory in one of only four World Health Organisation InfluenzaCentres in the world, scientists are racing ...
Egypt telco mulls bid for RBS Pakistan units
Jun 01, 2009 ... EGYPT'S Orascom Telecom and Rojhan Capital investment haveexpressed an interest in buying Royal Bank of Scotland's Pakistanioperations, the bank said today. Orascom Telecom owns Pakistan's biggest mobile company, PakistanMobile Communications (Mobilink). RBS is selling assets ...
Finsbury Food prey to 'exploratory' takeover
Jun 01, 2009 ... FINSBURY Food, the birthday cakes and speciality bread bakerwhich was chaired until last year by Lord Saatchi, has received atakeover bid approach. Shares in the AIM-quoted enterprise rose 5p to 26 1/2p havinggained 17% last week. In the last 12 months they have fallen from ahigh ...
THE DONMAR'S GOT TALENT ; HOT TICKETS PREVIEW
Jun 01, 2009; ... HAMLET Donmar at Wyndham's, WC2 IT'S the hottest of hot tickets -- Jude Law taking on one of theShakespeare's most challenging roles. But while most of the ticketsto the Donmar Warehouse's production of Hamlet at Wyndham's weresnapped up well in advance of Wednesday's press ...
MORE on David Elias
Jun 01, 2009 ... MORE on David Elias. As City Spy disclosed last week, thefinancier and fuel credit-card king - he built himself amultimillion-pound fortune and was the employer of Ernest Saundersafter the ex-Guinness boss came out of jail -- apparently leftpersonal debts ...
Esther faces challenge on her expenses ; Londoner's Diary
Jun 01, 2009 ... BAD NEWS for Esther Rantzen who said on Any Questions that shemight stand as an independent parliamentary candidate in Luton Southor in Totnes, Devon in protest against MPs and their outrageousexpenses. Former Private Eye editor Richard Ingrams, now editor ofThe Oldie, says he is ...
JUMP-START YOUR CAREER ; To get back on your feet when you've lost your job, you need to 'retool'. Philip Delves Broughton explains how, while Gideon Spanier looks at the rise of the new entrepreneurs SHOW LEADERSHIP, ACQUIRE EXPERTISE
Jun 01, 2009; ... GREG COLLETT was a director at Deutsche Bank in New York untilJune last year, when he succumbed to a long-standing itch to trysomething else. He had read every book he could find about changingcareer, saved his money and finally drawn up a list of things hewanted to do. With this in ...
Locations get star role in Pinewood's Pounds 200m plan
Jun 01, 2009 ... PINEWOOD STUDIOS today submitted its planning application for aPounds 200 million expansion to give film-makers access to one ofthe biggest selections of ready-made locations in the world. Project Pinewood, which was first announced two years ago, willinclude Venetian and Amsterdam ...
LOTS of crying over the spilt
Jun 01, 2009 ... LOTS of crying over the spilt white stuff in Edinburgh last week,when the Milk Summit took place. Seriously. It was intended todiscuss "Stability, Sustainability, Profitability" as well as themyriad other problems faced by the Pounds 300 million dairy sector.It was all ruined rather when ...
VIAGRA maker Pfizer, the world's
Jun 01, 2009 ... VIAGRA maker Pfizer, the world's biggest pharma firm, is reallygetting into the swing of money-raising. After last week's big bondsale, when it raised EUR 5.8 billion, Pfizer has now put two of itscompany Gulfstream jets up for sale. There's a Gulfstream Vavailable for ...
ARM muscles in on the netbook market
Jun 01, 2009; ... MICROCHIP designer ARM said today that it has started to wincontracts in the rapidly expanding market for low-cost laptops knownas netbooks. ARM said PC makers would be using ARM's processors in six newnetbook models this year. Last year 14 million netbooks were sold around ...
MARKS & Spencer is claiming
Jun 01, 2009 ... MARKS & Spencer is claiming that one of the first stores to sellout during its 125th birthday Original Penny Bazaar promotion wasthe City ...
TO the BCO (that's British Council
Jun 01, 2009 ... TO the BCO (that's British Council of Offices) conference dinnerand the introduction of the guest speaker, Alastair Campbell, byMike Hussey, head of Land Securities' ...
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Long, profitable life of vaccines means its not just the ill clamouring for them [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009; ... ADIRTY-BROWN brick building close to Northern Line station MillHill East is an unlikely place to find the saviour of thepharmaceuticals industry. But there, in a "highcontainment"laboratory in one of only four World Health Organisation InfluenzaCentres in the world, scientists are racing ...
Murder hunt tycoon 'acted in self-defence' [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009; ... THE tycoon wanted over the murder of his millionaire girlfriendwas attacked by her on the night she died, a friend claimed today. Ian Griffin apparently said he was assaulted by Kinga Leggshortly before she was found battered to death in the bathroom oftheir Paris hotel ...
Locations get star role in Pinewood's Pounds 200m plan [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009 ... FANCY a canalside flat in Venice or a classic brownstoneapartment in the Bronx at affordable prices and just 20 miles awayfrom central London? Pinewood Studios today submitted planningapplication to build one of the biggest selections of ready-madelocations in the world. The ...
Mandelson makes no promises to Vauxhall staff as GM folds [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009; ... Chrysler's sale cleared Page 37 LORD Mandelson today failed to reassure up to 5,000 Vauxhallworkers their jobs are safe. With the British car maker's American parent company GeneralMotors collapsing into what is the world's largest industrialbankruptcy, the Business Secretary ...
'228 KILLED' AS JET PLUNGES INTO SEA ; BRITONS FEARED ON BOARD PARIS FLIGHTAIR SEARCH FOR BODIES IN THE ATLANTIC [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009; ... AN Air France passenger jet with 228 people on board went down inthe Atlantic today after a suspected lightning strike at 35,000ft. Flight AF 447 was four hours into its journey from Rio de Janeiroto Paris when it disappeared off radar screens 200 miles offBrazil's north-east ...
General Motors collapses into $90bn bankruptcy [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009; ... GENERAL Motors today formally collapsed in the world's biggestindustrial bankruptcy. The giant US carmaker behind such brands as the Cadillac, Buickand Hummer, filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors aspart of a Washington bailout which will cost the US taxpayer ...
Esther faces challenge on her expenses ; Londoner's Diary [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009 ... BAD NEWS for Esther Rantzen who said on Any Questions that shemight stand as an independent parliamentary candidate in Luton Southor in Totnes, Devon in protest against MPs and their outrageousexpenses. Former Private Eye editor Richard Ingrams, now editor ofThe Oldie, says he is ...
Life's a stinker for the Smithfield sows ; Londoner's Diary [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009 ... ROBERT Kennedy Jr threw down the gauntlet to the US pig businessgiants Smithfield Foods at the Hay Festival on Saturday. Kennedy, a prominent US environmental lawyer and third son of thelate Bobby Kennedy, was angered by Smithfield's attempts to stop thefilm Pig Business, to which ...
TO the BCO (that's British Council of Offices [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009 ... TO the BCO (that's British Council of Offices) conference dinnerand the introduction of the guest speaker, Alastair Campbell, byMike Hussey, head of Land Securities' ...
VIAGRA maker Pfizer, the world's biggest [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009 ... VIAGRA maker Pfizer, the world's biggest pharma firm, is reallygetting into the swing of money-raising. After last week's big bondsale, when it raised EUR 5.8 billion, Pfizer has now put two of itscompany Gulfstream jets up for sale. There's a Gulfstream Vavailable for ...
MORE on David Elias [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009 ... MORE on David Elias. As City Spy disclosed last week, thefinancier and fuel credit-card king -- he built himself amultimillion-pound fortune and was the employer of Ernest Saundersafter the ex-Guinness boss came out of jail -- apparently leftpersonal debts ...
LOTS of crying over the spilt white stuff [Edition 2]
Jun 01, 2009 ... LOTS of crying over the spilt white stuff in Edinburgh last week,when the Milk Summit took place. Seriously. It was intended todiscuss "Stability, Sustainability, Profitability" as well as themyriad other problems faced by the Pounds 300 million dairy sector.It was all ruined rather when ...
GM goes bankrupt but pledges revival in months [Edition 3]
Jun 01, 2009; ... GENERAL MOTORS became the world's biggest-ever industrialbankruptcy today but pledged to rise from the ashes by the end ofthe summer. The giant US carmaker behind such brands as Cadillac, Buick andHummer today filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors aspart of a ...
Lloyds ponders sale of Insight ; NEWS IN BRIEF [Edition 3]
Jun 01, 2009 ... LLOYDS Banking Group is considering a sale of Insight Investment,the fund manager it acquired as part of the deal to take over HBOS.Deutsche Bank, HBOS's advisers, have been asking potential buyers ...
'228 KILLED' AS JET PLUNGES INTO SEA ; BRITONS FEARED ON BOARD PARIS FLIGHT AIR SEARCH FOR BODIES IN THE ATLANTIC [Edition 3]
Jun 01, 2009; ... A PASSENGER jet with 228 people on board crashed into theAtlantic 200 miles from land today after a suspected lightningstrike at 35,000 feet. Air France Flight 447 was four hours into its journey from Rio deJaneiro to Paris when it disappeared off Brazil's north-east coast.A ...
TRADER TALK [Edition 3]
Jun 01, 2009 ... SMALL-cap boutique Aberforth Partners has ramped up its exposureto specialist printing business Domino Printing Sciences from7,652,500 shares to 10,991,921 or 10.07%, worth Pounds 23.63million. Aberforth manages around Pounds 1.2 billion in retail andinstitutional small-cap mandates. The ...
HOLD ; PORTFOLIO [Edition 3]
Jun 01, 2009 ... BRITISH LAND Morgan Stanley rates property giant British Land asequal weight, although it has cut the UK landlord's price target by11%, to 195p. It describes ...
BUY ; PORTFOLIO [Edition 3]
Jun 01, 2009 ... VODAFONE Charles Stanley reckons investors should snap up sharesin telecoms giant Vodafone, giving it an accumulate rating. It notesthat corporate activity, especially in Germany, ...
Long, profitable life of vaccines means its not just the ill clamouring for them [Edition 3]
Jun 01, 2009; ... ADIRTY-BROWN brick building close to Northern Line station MillHill East is an unlikely place to find the saviour of thepharmaceuticals industry. But there, in a "highcontainment"laboratory in one of only four World Health Organisation InfluenzaCentres in the world, scientists are racing ...
Finsbury Food prey to 'exploratory' takeover [Edition 3]
Jun 01, 2009 ... FINSBURY Food, the birthday cakes and speciality bread bakerwhich was chaired until last year by Lord Saatchi, has received atakeover bid approach. Shares in the AIM-quoted enterprise rose 5p to 26 1/2p havinggained 17% last week. In the last 12 months they have fallen from ahigh ...
LDV rescue bid fails as backer pulls the plug [Edition 2]
Jun 02, 2009 ... THE British motor industry lurched further into crisis today asthe rescue of vanmaker LDV fell apart. About 850 jobs at LDV's factory in Birmingham may now be lost asLDV said it has been forced into administration. It emerged today that Weststar, a Malaysian-based ...
"THE US economy will enter 'hyperinflation' [Edition 2]
Jun 02, 2009 ... "THE US economy will enter 'hyperinflation' approaching thelevels in Zimbabwe because the Federal Reserve will be reluctant toraise interest rates, investor Marc Faber said," ...
Meet Milo, my new imaginary friend ; FIRST REVIEW [Edition 2]
Jun 02, 2009; ... MICROSOFT NATAL Microsoft Gaming Expo, Los Angeles TRYING Microsoft's Natal for the first time is an odd experience.Instead of the explanation of how to play a game, you are put infront of a large screen with a camera above it. Within seconds, itbecomes obvious what you do: in the ...
Taxpayer body approves pay at Lloyds after Blank's exit [Edition 2]
Jun 02, 2009; ... HBOS by Lloyds TSB which he stitched together with chiefexecutive Eric Daniels and Gordon Brown last year. Earlier this year, UKFI used its 70% stake in Royal Bank ofScotland to vote down the Pounds 700,000-a-year pension award todisgraced former chief executive Sir Fred ...
How the recession is poisoning the Wharf ; ECONOMICS ANALYSIS
Jun 02, 2009; ... CANARY Wharf was in the midst of the banking boom that turnedLondon into the most powerful financial centre in the world -- butit could now become one of the most high-profile victims of thebust. Its majority owner Songbird Estates is perilously close tobreaching a debt agreement that ...
Arek Deng to follow her Olympic family
Jun 02, 2009 ... Arek Deng, the sister of NBA star Luol Deng, is bidding tocompete for Great Britain at the 2012 Games. The 6ft 3in sister ofthe ...
Win tickets to watch the AEGON Championships
Jun 02, 2009 ... THE London Evening Standard has teamed up with leading lifeinsurance and pensions company AEGON, the lead partner of Britishtennis, to offer readers the chance to attend this year's AEGONChampionships. In one of the strongest draws ever seen at London's Queen's Club,including ...
THIS WEEK WE'RE LOVING
Jun 02, 2009; ... BESPOKE HAVAIANAS THINK Nike IDs but at a fraction of the price. Fans of the iconicBrazilian brand will have the chance to create their own unique pairof flip-flops when the UK's first Havaiana pop-up shop opens inSelfridges this week. For two weeks only, customers can choose ...
Look no handset, says Microsoft ; Xbox camera mirrors players' movements on the screen
Jun 02, 2009; ... MICROSOFT today sparked a high street computer games war byunveiling new games controller technology that it says is leapsahead of the Nintendo Wii. The Xbox 360 Project Natal system is a high resolution camera andmicrophone that tracks players' movements. Users simply move ...
Meet Milo, my new imaginary friend
Jun 02, 2009; ... FIRST REVIEW MICROSOFT NATAL Microsoft Gaming Expo, Los Angeles ****** TRYING Microsoft's Natal for the first time is an odd experience.Instead of the usual explanation of how to play a game, you aresimply put in front of a large screen with a camera above it ....
'A truly wonderful, exciting girl' ; Parents 'braced for worst' news about passengers on missing Air France flight
Jun 02, 2009; ... THE FAMILIES of two Britons and three Irish women on the missingAir France flight were today preparing themselves for the worst. It is believed a "perfect storm" in a notoriously dangerousflying zone caused the jet to crash. Patricia Coakley, from Whitby in Yorkshire, whose ...
Spaniard wins payout over 'Manuel' taunts
Jun 02, 2009; ... A SPANISH electrician who workmates nicknamed Manuel after thewaiter in Fawlty Towers is set to receive thousands of pounds incompensation. Juan Ignacio, who comes from Barcelona, sued his former employersat the private London Bridge Hospital claiming he was taunted withAndrew ...
Laura Ashley cautious over green shoots
Jun 02, 2009 ... LAURA Ashley indicated that there are signs of life on the HighStreet today when it reported a jump in revenue. In the three months to the end of May, sales rose 6.9%. Despite this result, the group says the economy continues to be"challenging and unpredictable", though the ...
Kingfisher basking in an 89% rise thanks to stay-at-homes
Jun 02, 2009; ... THE sun is coming out at DIY group Kingfisher, where sales ofgarden furniture and barbecue kit have soared thanks to goodweather. Kingfisher saw profits at its B& Q arm jump in the past threemonths as stay-at-home Brits favoured sprucing up their homes overforeign ...
ICG reflects downturn with first loss in 20 years
Jun 02, 2009 ... INTERMEDIATE Capital Group, which lends money to buyout firms tofund deals, today reported the first loss in its 20-year history asthe financial hurricane took its toll. The specialist finance house posted losses of Pounds 67 millionin the year to 31 March against profits of Pounds ...
Let's clear way for new wave of banks
Jun 02, 2009; ... IT is a basic rule of capitalism that when a company stumbles,nimble new competitors come into the market to kick it when it isdown and to try to grab its business. It is a rule that holds truefor most sectors, provided the barriers to entry are not toodaunting. Were Rolls-Royce ...
What's an ex-City worker got to do to get a job?
Jun 02, 2009; ... LAST year 28,000 workers in the wholesale financial market losttheir jobs. This year another 29,000 are forecast to go, accordingto the Centre for Economic and Business Research. "In a normal economic environment it takes 12 to 13 weeks to geta job after around 10 to 12 hours of ...
PORTFOLIO
Jun 02, 2009 ... BUY DAVIS SERVICE GROUP UBS advises shareholders to invest in Davis Service Group, atextile specialist involved in linen hire and laundry. It hasincreased the firm's price target from 280p to 335p, after DSG lastmonth issued a trading update demonstrating an 8% rise in ...
TRADER TALK
Jun 02, 2009 ... GARTMORE small-cap expert Gervais Williams has ramped up hisexposure to bio-fuel business GTL Resources from 5,404,769 shares to6,579,769 or 20.56% of the business worth Pounds 921,167. Gervaissuffered with the rest of the sector last year as liquidity left thesmall-cap market. He is ...
Harvard's 'leaders' who certainly made a difference
Jun 02, 2009 ... THE collapse of General Motors is another addition to the wall ofshame that should be decorating the front entrance to the HarvardBusiness School in Boston. Here's a very short list of Harvard alumni turned corporatecatastrophes: Jeff Skilling (Enron), Andy Hornby (HBOS), ...