The Evening Standard (London, England) back issues from July 2009:
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 ...
Railways are neither private nor public
Jul 01, 2009 ... ONCE, we had British Rail. Now we have something that is neithera nationalised rail system nor one that is privately run. TheGovernment's decision to take over the East Coast line franchisebetween Edinburgh and London from National Express was probablyinevitable, given the company's ...
There's now a science to writing great books
Jul 01, 2009; ... JUDGING the Samuel Johnson Prize began as an over-enthusiasticbook club -- each of us had 40 books to read in three months -- andended in personal transformation. The winning book turned out to bewhat we first tentatively described as a "strange story aboutwhales". Why choose ...
Brand poised to make his BBC comeback ; Londoner's Diary
Jul 01, 2009 ... NOW that Jonathan Ross is back on telly following his three monthsuspension by the BBC, how long can it be before Russell Brand isrestored to his former position on Radio 2? The two men were in deeptrouble last October when they left lewd messages on the actorAndrew Sachs's voicemail and ...
THE Serpentine last night threw ; Londoner's Diary
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE Serpentine last night threw a dinner at Paramount -- the clubat the top of Centre Point -- for American pop artist Jeff Koons,whose show opens at the gallery tomorrow. Guests included DashaZhukova (pictured left), Tracey Emin (pictured with Jeff Koons topright) and Jefferson Hack and ...
Sir Philip Green to buy ITV? Oh please... ; IN THE AIR
Jul 01, 2009; ... COULD Sir Philip Green really be interested in buying ITV? TheBhs boss and Britain's Got Talent creator Simon Cowell have joinedforces to work on an international TV venture together, which wouldhold the rights to Cowell's many hit formats, but the idea of Greenwanting to take over ITV ...
BORIS Johnson's City Hall planners ; IN THE AIR
Jul 01, 2009; ... BORIS Johnson's City Hall planners have criticised NewsInternational's plans to redevelop its Wapping HQ, but the Mayor isstill on good terms with the Murdoch newspaper firm. He is going toWapping to be interviewed on 10 July at an hour-long session --organised by thelondonpaper for all ...
CHOICE
Jul 01, 2009; ... NASA: TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY 9pm, BBC2 The last part of thedocumentary about Nasa's first 40 years looks at the shadow side ofspace travel, including the Apollo 13 mission, which limped homewith the aid of a device made of cardboard, duct tape and an oldsock. The mission control footage is ...
TRADER TALK
Jul 01, 2009 ... ALL-cap specialist Aberforth Partners has trimmed its stake intravel agent Holidaybreak ahead of a planned rights issue from 6.39million shares to 5.69 million or 11.65% of the total valued atPounds 16.56 million. It holds the bulk of its shares in its SmallerCompanies trust, a Pounds ...
KNIGHT can see the funny side
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 ...
Hostile media joust with Knight
Jul 01, 2009 ... BLESS. Members of the British Bankers' Association are feelingsorry for themselves. "We recently added up the number of televisionand radio interviews that have been given by the BBA in the last 12months and it is nearly ...
MORE gloom in the gloamin' north
Jul 01, 2009 ... MORE gloom in the gloamin' north of the border, where the word isthat Royal Bank of Scotland has begun outsourcing IT to ...
HEDGE fund multimillionaire Christian Hore
Jul 01, 2009 ... HEDGE fund multimillionaire Christian Hore is not the only Britonbeing dragged into the Spanish police investigation of a Majorca-based law firm. Hore, 48, an executive with Tudor Capital Europe,part of Tudor Investment, one of the world's most successful hedgefunds, is accused of ...
Dr Death and the failures that have earned him his nickname ; INTERVIEW Trained GP Edward Vandyk heads the firm that has just been hit with the second-biggest ever fine against a small- companies stockbroker
Jul 01, 2009; ... IN November 2006, stock marketquoted air-conditioning supplierWorthington Nicholls put out the following statement via its brokerBlue Oar: "The emphasis on the quality of client service has led toa high percentage of recurring revenue with existing customers,which means that the ...
Dimon banks on Obama plan
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE Dimon has spoken. Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JP Morganand the American banker who weathered the credit crunch best, isbacking the Obama administration's plan to bring banking regulationback under one roof. "A unified bank regulator is a good start," says Dimon in ...
SHUAA CAPITAL, the biggest investment [...] ; LETTER FROM DUBAI
Jul 01, 2009; ... SHUAA CAPITAL, the biggest investment bank in Dubai, has finallyresolved a bitter dispute with state investment firm Dubai BankingGroup. They ...
MORE consolidation in Dubai's troubled [...] ; LETTER FROM DUBAI
Jul 01, 2009; ... MORE consolidation in Dubai's troubled real estate industry.Emaar Properties, a listed company, will merge with three ...
Business [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... IN TODAY'S SECTION MARKS & SPENCER SALES CRISIS EASES PAGE 29'For a media ...
Handball's banking on help from Lloyds ; and all that ... [Edition 2]
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 ...
Murray's pepped up by pizza ; Back on court after epic match, Andy is a glutton for punishment [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009; ... ANDY MURRAY prepared for his Wimbledon quarter-final againstSpain's Juan Carlos Ferrero today with an extraordinary calorieintake -- including pizza, sushi and home baking. Team Murray swung into action after the Briton's fourth roundclash on Monday with Stanislas Wawrinka finished ...
Games track issue is set to run and run ; and all that ... [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... Olympics chiefs are looking for a new site for the athletics warm-up track after 2012. The facility, vital for an athletics legacy, isnear the ...
SPEED THRILLS ; New super-fast trains are slashing travel times from Kent to only 17 minutes. House-hunters should jump on board, says Anthea Masey
Jul 01, 2009; ... THIS week commuters' lives changed with the arrival of new 140-milean-hour Javelin trains from Japan running from Ashford in Kentto St Pancras. The service cuts the train journey time on the 67-mile journey from Ashford to the heart of the capital from 80minutes to only 37 minutes. There ...
SEE IT BUY IT
Jul 01, 2009 ... BUY IT: TROPICALISMO! BY PAM BAGGETT In her book Tropicalismo!(Timber Press), Pam Baggett shows how to spice up your garden with95 showstopping tropical plants. The book costs Pounds 6.99, butHomes & Property readers can buy it for Pounds 5, including p& p, bycalling 020 7372 1703 and ...
MOTHER STIRS IT UP ; It's quick, it's cheap and -- in the right hands -- it creates great style. Colour consultant for Farrrow & Ball Joa Studholme knows the power of paint, says Pattie Barron
Jul 01, 2009; ... PAINT is the cheapest, quickest way you can change your home,says Joa Studholme, colour consultant for top people's paint companyFarrow & Ball. In her own home, a two-storey Notting Hill flat sheshares with husband Andrew, a commercials producer, son Cosmo, 15and daughter Nancy, 11, no ...
Writer uses prize to plead for endangered whales
Jul 01, 2009; ... WRITER Philip Hoare has made an impassioned plea to save thewhale after winning Britain's most prestigious prize for non-fiction with a love letter to the world's biggest mammal. The author won the Pounds 20,000 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize withLeviathan, or The Whale. The victory came ...
Art buyers put their money on Doig as the next Hockney
Jul 01, 2009; ... CHRISTIE'S defied the chill of recession to stage a Pounds 19million auction of contemporary art in London -- with 86 per cent ofthe lots selling. Last night's sale did not quite match the success of a similarsummer auction at rival Sotheby's last week, when bidders paidPounds ...
50,000 WELCOME KAKA SO WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN RONALDO TURNS UP? [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... Bodyguards protected Kaka as he greeted Real Madrid fans at theBernabeu last night. The club expect to present Cristiano Ronaldo onMonday and Kaka said: "It ...
Taxpayers will foot bill for this rail mess [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... ONCE, we had British Rail. Now we have something that is neithera nationalised rail system nor one that is privately run. TheGovernment's decision to take over the East Coast line franchisebetween Edinburgh and London from National Express was probablyinevitable, given the company's ...
Bischoff the tip for Lloyds job despite denials [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... BANKING veteran Sir Win Bischoff was today still the Cityfavourite to become chairman at Lloyds Banking Group despite denialshe has already been offered the job. Analysts and investors see Bischoff as a strong candidate toreplace Sir Victor Blank, partly because he gets on with ...
TV HIGHLIGHT [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... Wimbledon - Day 9 (BBC2, 1pm - 3.25pm; 5.50pm - 8pm BBC1, 1.45pm -6pm) Men's ...
MORE gloom in the gloamin' [...] [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... MORE gloom in the gloamin' north of the border, where the word isthat Royal Bank of Scotland has begun outsourcing IT to ...
British Gas in drive to hire meter installers [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009; ... BRITISH Gas said today it will need to hire 2600 people over thenext three years to install the new generation of household smallmeters. The so-called green-collar hiring spree comes on top of the 1500jobs parent group Centrica said it will need to take on to beef upits wind farm ...
Hostile media joust with Knight [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... BLESS. Members of the British Bankers' Association are feelingsorry for themselves. "We recently added up the number of televisionand radio interviews that have been given by the BBA in the last 12months and it is nearly ...
HEDGE fund multimillionaire Christian Hore [...] [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... HEDGE fund multimillionaire Christian Hore is not the only Britonbeing dragged into the Spanish police investigation of a Majorca-based law firm. Hore, 48, an executive with Tudor Capital Europe,part of Tudor Investment, one of the world's most successful hedgefunds, is accused of ...
TRADER TALK [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... TRADER TALK ALL-cap specialist Aberforth Partners has trimmed itsstake in travel agent Holidaybreak ahead of a planned rights issuefrom 6.39 million shares to 5.69 million or 11.65% of the totalvalued at Pounds 16.56 million. It holds the bulk of its shares inits Smaller Companies trust, ...
PORTFOLIO [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... BUY IMAGINATION TECHNOLOGY Cazenove has upped its rating ofmobile chipmaker Imagination Technologies from in line tooutperform. The upgrade comes after US giants Intel and Apple boughtmore shares in the tech business. Shares in Imagination were up 4pat 141p. SELL AMLIN Collins ...
Rose buys time as the sales picture gets better at M& S [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009; ... SIR Stuart Rose today delivered a smaller-than-expected drop insales at High Street giant Marks & Spencer and dismissed City angerabout the power he wields as executive chairman. Like-for-like sales, which strip out new store space, were down1.4% in the 13 weeks to last Saturday, ...
Northern Rock is set to ask for Pounds 3bn more [Edition 2]
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 ...
US operations of Crabtree collapse ; NEWS IN BRIEF [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... CRABTREE & Evelyn, the luxury bath potions and fragrancesretailer, today became the latest victim of the recession when itsUS arm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The US chain --which is ...
THE Serpentine last night threw [...] ; Londoner's Diary [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... THE Serpentine last night threw a dinner at Paramount -- the clubat the top of Centre Point -- for American pop artist Jeff Koons,whose show opens at the gallery tomorrow. Guests included DashaZhukova (pictured left), Tracey Emin (pictured with Jeff Koons topright) and Jefferson Hack and ...
Don't give me a bad review you tweet ; Londoner's Diary [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... SIR KINGSLEY Amis said that a bad review spoiled your breakfastbut it shouldn't spoil your lunch. Alternatively, these days you cantweet spleen. Novelist Alice Hoffman launched a scathing attack oncritic Roberta Silman of the Boston Globe, tweeting that she was "amoron" after her review ...
BBC's lack of Brand awareness ; Londoner's Diary [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... NOW that Jonathan Ross is back on telly following his three monthsuspension by the BBC, how long can it be before Russell Brand isrestored to his former position on Radio 2? The two men were in deeptrouble last October when they left lewd messages on the actorAndrew Sachs's voicemail and ...
Seth to receive a suitable fee for follow-up ; Londoner's Diary [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009 ... IT is over fifteen years since Vikram Seth took the literaryworld by storm with A Suitable Boy, and now it seems the fetedIndian-born novelist is set to command a suitable fee for a follow-up. Word reaches me that Penguin has snapped up the rights to a newSeth novel, A Suitable Girl ....
RAIL GIANT BAILED OUT -- AND WE PAY ; EAST COAST LINE NATIONALISED: TWO OTHERS AT RISKNATIONAL EXPRESS EXIT HITS TAXPAYERS FOR 'Pounds 700 MILLION' [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009; ... TAXPAYERS are to be saddled with a huge bill for today'srenationalisation of Britain's premier high-speed rail line, theStandard can reveal. Transport Secretary Lord Adonis was forced to take control of the393-mile East Coast Main Line between King's Cross and Edinburghafter the ...
More failures and this fragile industry could derail ; COMMENTARY [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009; ... THE long-expected collapse of the National Express East Coastfranchise shows the fragility of the privatised railway system inthe face of an economic downturn -- and raises serious doubt aboutwhether the system can ever function truly in the private sector. The boss of National ...
Strategic thinker becomes biggest victim of system he created to revive industry ; PROFILE [Edition 2]
Jul 01, 2009; ... THE departure of Richard Bowker from National Express comes lacedwith irony. "He is the man who set up this blasted franchise system and he isthe one who is now its greatest victim," one rival railway executivetold the Standard today. Others today pointed to a further irony: ...