The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from February 2008:
Personally speaking Beth Jones Hollywood loves this septuagenarian. Why don't we?
Feb 03, 2008 ... Johnny Depp has held his hand, Roman Polanski has made him coffeeand Baz Luhrmann once flew from London to Paris to Los Angeles to bewith him. His latest work was nominated for best screenplay and wontwo other awards at the Golden Globes. It also has four Oscarnominations. Ladies and ...
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Feb 03, 2008 ... CHOOSE between two William Blake exhibitions at Manchester'sWhitworth Gallery: one on slavery (until 6 April), the other examining his artistic legacy (until 26 April); 0161 275 7450 GET INTO Afropop with Vampire Weekend's self-titled album, justreleased, ...
GENIUS: I KNOW IT WHEN I HEAR IT
Feb 03, 2008; ... I HAVE IN MY TIME BEEN FORTUNATE to meet a large number of thegreat and the good of this world. Most, if truth be told, were notas great as they would have you believe. My few brushes withHollywood glitterati, for example, on the whole confirm a suspicion that the mostnecessary ...
STILL OUR DARLING EXCLUSIVE JULIE CHRISTIE, CINEMA'S MOST BELOVED CONTRARIAN, CLAIMS SHE'S NEVER BEEN THAT PRETTY, THAT CLEVER, OR THAT BOTHERED ABOUT WINNING AN OSCAR. IS SHE MAD? QUITE THE OPPOSITE, FINDS DAVID JENKINS
Feb 03, 2008; ... It's just gone 11 on the morning that Julie Christie has beennominated for the Best Actress award in this year's Oscars. She's onthe balcony of her Santa Monica hotel, rhapsodising about the view -'It looks over the sea, and the light in LA is so utterly stunning.It's a rare, rare light, ...
THE ART OF SITTING STILL ART IT'S NOT ENOUGH JUST TO TAKE YOUR CLOTHES OFF AND DO NOTHING - THE BEST SITTERS OFFER SOMETHING 'CHALLENGING' TOO. ONE OF BRITAIN'S FEW FULL-TIME LIFE MODELS SHARES HER SECRETS WITH RICHARD JOHNSON
Feb 03, 2008; ... ROSEMARIE ORWIN DRAGS THE HAIR OFF HER FACE AND ties it up,revealing wonderful cheek bones and a long, graceful neck. As shediscusses this morning's poses with Neil Drury, the art tutor, sheprepares to loosen the ties around her robe. Life models don't liketo undress in front of their ...
Who's that girl? Famous life models laid bare
Feb 03, 2008; ... Dora Maar (as seen in 'Dora Maar au Chat'; Pablo Picasso, 1941) The socialist photographer Dora Maar was Picasso's mostintriguing lover. She helped galvanise him politically in the mid-1930s and modelled for myriad works, including the Weeping ...
THE BOOK THAT STARTED THE MADNESS SOCIETY FORTY YEARS AGO, MARYLIN BENDER'S 'THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE' EXPOSED THE LIVES OF THE EMERGING JET SET IN ALL THEIR PROFLIGATE, TRIVIAL - YET GRIPPING - GLORY. TODAY, SHE REMAINS SCATHING ABOUT 'THIS RIDICULOUS THING CALLED CELEBRITY CULTURE'.
Feb 03, 2008; ... IN LATE 1967, THE NEW YORK DEPARTMENT STORE BERGDORF Goodmanmounted an unusual window display. Several of its grand windows,which stretch along 100 yards of prime Fifth Avenue property, weredecorated with giant, blown-up index pages from the season'spublishing sensation, Marylin Bender's ...
MARYLIN BENDER ON ...
Feb 03, 2008 ... JACKIE KENNEDY WHEN JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT, THE FASHION INDUSTRYWENT BERSERK WITH JOY. UNLIKE PRINCESS MARGARET, WHO BROUGHT AFASHION PHOTOGRAPHER INTO THE BOSOM OF THE ROYAL FAMILY AND THENPROCEEDED TO DRESS ERRATICALLY, JACQUELINE KENNEDY HAS NEVER RENEGEDON THE ...
The 100 club PHOTOGRAPHY SHOOTING YOUNG, GOOD-LOOKING PEOPLE FOR A LIVING INSPIRED MARK STORY'S NEW PASSION PROJECT: FINDING BEAUTY IN THE OLDEST FACES ON EARTH.
Feb 03, 2008; ... AT THE THOUSANDS OF CASTING SESSIONS that Mark Story hosted in the 1970s and 80s, when he was adirector of commercials, one thing always struck him: 'The funniestand most interesting people that turned up were the old people whowere not actors. It was their faces and how ...
Like, totally squashable CINEMA
Feb 03, 2008; ... Cloverfield Things We Lost in the Fire Cloverfield (15) arrives before us bearing the simplest of allpossible plots: a bunch of glamorous young New Yorkers are partying,flirting and bickering when their intrigues are rudely interruptedby a monster seemingly intent upon ...
OTHER RELEASES
Feb 03, 2008; ... Penelope Over Her Dead Body Underdog Battle for Haditha Still Life Freebird Penelope (U) Truly a fairy tale for the nose-job generation, this sparklyslice of body dysmorphobia stars Christina Ricci as a girl cursedwith the face of a pig ....
MY FAVOURITE MOVIES DIRECTOR TAMARA JENKINS
Feb 03, 2008 ... I've always been interested in movies with family themes, andOzu's Tokyo Story (1953) is one that blows me away. It's about anageing couple who go to Tokyo to visit their grown-up children, onlyto be grossly neglected and maltreated there. They're such goodpeople, yet their children are ...
DVDs Out this week
Feb 03, 2008; ... YELLA Artificial Eye 365DVD, 12, pounds 18.88 Yella, the leading character in Christian Petzold's drama of east-west relations in reunited Germany, leaves home in the former DDRfor a new life in Hanover but cannot shake off her ex-husband. Hedrives her, they crash, she ...
Something of the night about him
Feb 03, 2008 ... Johnny Depp's louring mask of a face as Sweeney Todd (right), thethroat-slitter of Fleet Street, has been the cause of much delight.'Black magic,' thought James Christopher (Times). Nigel Andrews(Financial Times) was moved to pen his review in verse - well,doggerel: 'Lord, Mr Depp, ...
Always look on the dark side ART
Feb 03, 2008; ... Juan MunozA Retrospective The 16th-century Spanish mystic, Saint Teresa of Avila, oncecompared life to a night in a cheap hotel. The 20th-century Spanishartist, Juan Munoz, would probably have deemed that too rosy a viewof the human condition. The sculpture that greets visitors to ...
ART CHOICE
Feb 03, 2008; ... Alexander Rodchenko Hayward Gallery, London SE1 (0871 663 2519)to 27 April. Subtitled 'Revolution in Photography', this exhibitionfeatures 120 works by one of the leading ...
Double infidelity THEATRE
Feb 03, 2008; ... The Lover/The Collection Happy Now? The first-night audience at The Lover and The Collection - theComedy Theatre's double bill - were treated to their firstPinteresque pause even before the curtain went up. The officialstart time was 7pm. The proceedings didn't actually ...
THEATRE CHOICE
Feb 03, 2008 ... Gilbert & Sullivan Gielgud Theatre, London W1 (0870 040 0046) to1 March. Raymond Gubbay presents a season of three G&S operettas,led by some unlikely stars: TV impressionist Alistair McGowan(below) ...
THe big shots are sad as well as bad JEFF GOLDBLUM TELLS ROBERT GORE-LANGTON WHY HE HAS COME TO LONDON TO TAKE ON THE SYSTEM THAT NURTURED HIM
Feb 03, 2008; ... A play about corporate cynicism and greed in Hollywood? Who better to write it than America's most macho playwright,David Mamet. Speed-the-Plow is a high-tension hate-letter to thegrindmill of Hollywood. The title is taken from an old motto Mametonce saw on a plate: 'Industry ...
OTHER THEATRE
Feb 03, 2008; ... Uncle Vanya Uncle Vanya Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames (0871 230 1552) to 9 February Peter Hall has faced many nerve-jangling opening nights in hiscareer, but few can have been as make-or-break as the press night ofhis latest production, for English Touring ...
Do you come here often? DANCE
Feb 03, 2008; ... Tango Por Dos Sylvia Time to service the trouser press: Miguel Angel Zotto's Tango PorDos is back for another London run with a new show. Sharp suits,sluttishly lovely frocks and a first-rate orchestra are a cast-ironrecipe for a good time but Tango Por Dos is (and always has ...
Challenge coleen TELEVISION
Feb 03, 2008; ... Coleen's Real Women Wonderland: Virtual Adultery and Cyberspace Love Scams, Fiddles and Honest Claims Raines 'Coleen McLoughlin?' said my father-in-law thoughtfully. 'Doesn'tshe have more class than her fiance, Wayne Rooney?' Whereupon athunderous ...
CONCERTS CHOICE
Feb 03, 2008 ... English National Opera Coliseum, London WC2 (0870 145 1700).Revivals of Madam Butterfly (Friday, in rep to 7 March) and TheMikado (Saturday, in rep to 4 March) Daniel Barenboim Royal Festival Hall, London SE1 (0871 6632583), ...
Magic mozart CLASSICAL
Feb 03, 2008; ... Die Zauberflote Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Janowski Of all the many good reasons for going to see the Royal Opera'slatest revival of Mozart's Die Zauberflote, none is stronger thanSimon Keenlyside's Papageno. His endearing Bird Man has everythingone could wish for in this ...
CDs Out this week
Feb 03, 2008; ... When I heard this orchestra and conductor perform this work inpublic, I thought it was the finest account yet of Deryck Cooke'swondrous performing edition. This recording confirms me in myopinion. Gianandrea Noseda obtains superlative orchestral playing,which is captured by the excellent ...
NOTES ON ETERNITY MESSIAEN EXPRESSED A ROCK-LIKE FAITH THROUGH HIS VISIONARY MUSIC. WE HAVE NEVER NEEDED IT MORE URGENTLY, SAYS MALCOLM HAYES
Feb 03, 2008; ... The music of Olivier Messiaen (1908-92), one of the 20thcentury's great composers, is about the intersection of ritualdesign with one of the most radiant and passionate sound-worlds evercreated. A devout Catholic, Messiaen viewed his works as a conduitfor his unwavering faith: 'I want ...
CDs Out this week
Feb 03, 2008; ... If anyone makes a more eclectic album this year then I'm abanana. You may detect the influences of Rolf Harris, Todd Rundgren,LCD Soundsystem, Gerry Rafferty, The Chemical Brothers, Prince, BigDaddy (the wrestler), kids chanting 'aed' in late-Eighties clubs andeverything in between. But ...
Fractured philsopher POP
Feb 03, 2008; ... Cat Power 'What a band,' notes the easily distracted, highly charged ChanMarshall, performing as always as Cat Power, naturally praising, notfor the first time tonight, her group, the Dirty Delta Blues Band.They're a dandy bolting together of rugged, battle-scarred membersfrom ...
EVOLUTION THERE'S SOMETHING FISHY GOING ON WITH OUR BODIES, DISCOVERS EMMA CRICHTON-MILLER
Feb 03, 2008; ... Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5 Billion-Year History ofthe Human Body BY NEIL SHUBIN ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN PRESS, pounds 20, 229 pp T pounds 18 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 On the face of it, there is not much in common between a bearded ...
Adele POP
Feb 03, 2008; ... In recent years, much concern has been expressed about the futureof the generation gap. With parents, and even grandparents, havinggrown up every bit as steeped in pop traditions as the averageteenager, what scope could there be for youth to exult - as it oncedid - in the outrageous ...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY FRANCES WILSON RELISHES THIS MEMOIR OF AN INTENSLY LIVED LIFE
Feb 03, 2008; ... Miracles of Life BY J. G. BALLARD FOURTH ESTATE, pounds 14.99, 288 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 J. G. Ballard is now in his late seventies and suffering fromadvanced prostate cancer. Miracles of Life, his autobiography, maywell be the ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME
Feb 03, 2008; ... 'The mystery of Marie Roget' By Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe has been credited with inventing almost everymodern literary genre: the detective story, the horror story, thescience-fiction story, and so on. What he certainly did in TheMystery of Marie Roget was to ...
ASSASSINATION ANTHONY DANIELS EXAMINES HOW GUATEMALA'S RULERS RID THEMSELVES OF A TURBULENT PRIEST
Feb 03, 2008; ... The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? BY FRANCISCO GOLDMAN ATLANTIC, pounds 16.99, 396 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Guatemala is one of the most beautiful countries in the world,with an equable climate, wonderful Mayan ...
FOOD JUDITH FLANDERS ON CHANGING TASTES IN FOOD AND THE SUBSTANCES WE ADD
Feb 03, 2008; ... Swindled: From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee - The Dark History of Food Cheats BY BEE WILSON JOHN MURRAY, pounds 16.99, 384 pp In Defence of Food: The Myth of Nutrition and the Pleasures of Eating BY MICHAEL POLLAN ALLEN ...
LITERARY LIFE
Feb 03, 2008; ... Last year Harvard University Press published The Notebooks ofRobert Frost, an 809-page volume edited by Professor Robert Faggen.Now, thanks to a review by James Sitar, published in Essays inCriticism, the British literary journal, a squabble has broken outabout the accuracy of Professor ...
CRITICISM THOMAS JONES THINKS THIS LITERARY CRITIC SHOULD WORRY LESS ABOUT STYLE AND GET OUT MORE
Feb 03, 2008; ... How Fiction Works BY JAMES WOOD JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 16.99, 194 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 There aren't many book reviewers whose leaving one magazine to goto work for another would make the headlines. But then there aren'tmany book ...
ECONOMICS ECONOMICS IS NOT JUST A TOOL FOR BUSINESS, FINDS ED SMITH, IT'S FOR LIFE
Feb 03, 2008; ... The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of Everything BY TIM HARFORD LITTLE BROWN, pounds 18.99, 263 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Whatever happened to the 'dismal science'? Hot on the heels ofthe huge hit Freakonomics, and his own ...
FIRST NOVEL SUSANNA HISLOP IS REFRESHED BY A DOSE OF REALISM IN AN ISLAND PARADISE
Feb 03, 2008; ... The Descendants BY KAUI HART HEMMINGS JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 12.99, 283 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 'The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees areswaying, so what.' For Matt King, the sardonic protagonist of KauiHart ...
FICTION A SCANDALOUS LOVE STORY OF ANCIENT ROME FAILS TO STIR HARRIET PATERSON
Feb 03, 2008; ... Counting the Stars BY HELEN DUNMORE FIG TREE/PENGUIN, pounds 16.99, 256 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 The Orange Prize winner Helen Dunmore has many guises: poet,novelist, children's author. In this new work of historical fiction ...
FICTION JOANNA TROLLOPE'S LATEST IS ABOUT WOMEN, BUT MELISSA KATSOULIS PREFERS THE MEN
Feb 03, 2008; ... Friday Nights BY JOANNA TROLLOPE BLOOMSBURY, pounds 18.99, 336 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Joanna Trollope's latest biennial novel, Friday Nights, aims tolift the lid on female friendship via a series of set-pieces about agroup of Fulham ...
CRIME FICTION
Feb 03, 2008; ... Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis (Sort of Books, pounds 7.99) is afast-paced, refreshingly different thriller that owes much of itssuccess to its two central characters. Inspector Jian, overweight after too manybanquets and wealthy from taking bribes, has come from China tosearch for ...
FICTION DAVID ROBSON ON A TRAGI-COMEDY OF ALCOHOLISM TOLD BACKWARDS
Feb 03, 2008; ... The Irresistible Inheritance of Wilberforce BY PAUL TORDAY WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 12.99, 308 pp T pounds 11.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Disappointing second novels are an inevitable offshoot of extravagantly praised first ones ....
PAPERBACKS
Feb 03, 2008; ... THE GHOST MAP BY STEVEN JOHNSON PENGUIN, pounds 8.99 In 1854 cholera killed many hundreds in Soho alone. The Board ofHealth (and particularly the great Edwin Chadwick) was convinced thedisease was airborne and called it a miasma, reasonably in view ofthe excrement ...
PAPERBACKS
Feb 03, 2008; ... DEATH OF A MURDERER BY RUPERT THOMSON BLOOMSBURY, pounds 7.99 Billy is an ordinary Suffolk policeman given an extraordinaryassignment: a night shift standing guard over the body of MyraHindley, who has just died. While he sits in the hospital mortuary,feeling ...
REVIEW OF REVIEWS
Feb 03, 2008 ... 'An object lesson in how a writer should not respond to events':David Sexton in the Evening Standard disliked Martin Amis'scollection of post 9/11 essays, The Second Plane, and he was notalone. Most ferocious was William Dalrymple, who objected to 'awholly un-nuanced book about ...
TURN ON It's landed: the ipod speaker dock that looks more sci-fi than hi-fi (and sounds pretty good, too) Gizmos of the week
Feb 03, 2008; ... Bowers and Wilkins' first foray into iPod speaker docks is anitem of sculpture that most likely has a shelf set aside at theMuseum of Modern Art in New York. Designed by the London agency Native, it's more cigare volant than Germanicdirigible. A hard composite shell houses two ...
ROAD TEST THE FACELIFT DIDN'T WORK, SAYS NEIL LYNDON. BUT THE FOCUS STILL DRIVES LIKE A DREAM
Feb 03, 2008; ... Ford Focus Zetec 5dr 2.0 TDCi Price pounds 20,545 Bhp 135 0-62 mph 9.3 secs Top speed 126 mph Average fuel consumption 51.3 mpg Insurance group 10E ACCORDING TO A FASHIONABLE theory that's going round, corporations are ...
IS YOUR HOME RECESSION PROOF? Zoe Dare Hall reveals the qualities that make good homes sell, when all around others are floundering
Feb 03, 2008; ... With all the pessimism surrounding the housing market, you wouldbe forgiven for thinking that the whole thing had ground to a halt:no one buying, unless for a hefty discount, and no one selling,unless they are desperate. But even in a bad climate, good homes sell - and not just ...
Simply click on the style icon From seeing how your home would look with red walls and tartan throws to buying basics or designer accessories, the latest website lets you do it all from your armchair. Sonia Purnell tries online interior design
Feb 03, 2008; ... Blonde, flirty and ferociously bright, she was the undisputedFirst Lady of Dotcom. One decade on, the irrepressible Martha LaneFox has teamed up with her old business partner Brent Hoberman to dofor wallpapers, sofas and rugs what they did for cheap flights andlong weekends abroad with ...
Ready for take-off As new budget airline routes open up, intrepid property buyers are filling the departure lounges, writes Graham Norwood
Feb 03, 2008; ... The measure of a good overseas investment property is not alwayshow much the sun shines or how low prices are. Increasingly, we lookat budget airline routes. This year, the UK's 11 budget carriers are launching 29 newroutes and where budget flights go, eager estate agents and ...
THE ROOM PLANNER In part two of her series on reclaimed furnishings, Paula Robinson digs out some British treasures
Feb 03, 2008; ... Previously, we looked to Paris and the extensive flea marketsthere for inspiration to create a beautiful kitchen. This week, it'stime to bring the French style back home and hunt for treasure inthe UK. While British kitchens could do with being less predictable,there's much to be said ...
THE FINAL PART OF OUR EXPERT'S GUIDE TO HERBS
Feb 03, 2008; ... Once you get the hang of using herbs to enliven your diet andbody, you will want to find new varieties to use, interesting waysto store them, and ways of prolonging their growing season. Thereare many fascinating avenues to explore: visiting physic gardens,talking to herbalists and even ...
How do I keep my porch dry of leaks? On the level - A builder gives it to you straight
Feb 03, 2008; ... Q. I have a west-facing front on my 1928 brick house with blackmortar joints. In driving rain and wind, I have water leaking down(presumably through the cavity) above my front porch which is flushwith the front of the house. Originally the porch was open, so waterdripping down wouldn't ...
Think outside the forecourt for your Valentine GIFT IDEAS THAT ARE SURE NOT TO WILT
Feb 03, 2008; ... Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and garage forecourts up anddown the country will be doing a brisk trade in tired daffs or jet-lagged lilies flown halfway round the world and marked up to doublethe price. But it doesn't take much time and imagination to come upwith a real romantic ...
Turf war over Newbury board
Feb 03, 2008 ... THE ACTIVIST shareholder trying to buy Newbury Racecourse willthis week learn whether its hostile offer to buy the famousBerkshire track has been successful, write Mark Kleinman and JamesHall. GPG (UK) Holdings, a subsidiary of Guinness Peat, is attemptingto oust Newbury ...
Chinese prepare to dig deep for pounds 15bn Xstrata stake
Feb 03, 2008; ... PROSPECTIVE buyers from Asia, Europe and South America, includingone of China's biggest state-controlled banks, have made secretapproaches to buy Glencore's pounds 14bn stake in Xstrata, theLondon-listed mining group. China Development Bank, which bankrolled Chinalco's dawn raid ...
Punch swoops on wounded pubs giant Merger with Mitchells & Butlers would cement place as UK's biggest bar group
Feb 03, 2008; ... PUNCH TAVERNS has tabled a secret all-share proposal to swallowMitchells & Butlers, its embattled rival, The Sunday Telegraph haslearned. Punch is understood to have submitted the proposal late last weekfollowing M&B's disclosure that it had recorded a disastrous pounds274m loss ...
RBS bids to reassure investors over divi
Feb 03, 2008; ... ROYAL Bank of Scotland would consider offloading part of itsminority stake in Bank of China if a deepening crisis in the bankingsystem required it to raise fresh capital, The Sunday Telegraph haslearned. Sir Tom McKillop, RBS's non-executive chairman, is understood tohave met ...
Carr to probe hedge loss
Feb 03, 2008 ... ROGER CARR, the chairman of Mitchells & Butlers, is to appoint aheavy-hitting City law firm to investigate the circumstances leadingup to last week's pounds 294m hedging-related losses, writes MarkKleinman. Carr, who also sits on the boards of Centrica, the owner ofBritish Gas, ...
Jersey dairy wants big cheese status
Feb 03, 2008; ... JERSEY butter, Gorgonzola cheese and French champagne - it mightsound like the makings of a good picnic, but Channel Island farmersare hoping their dairy products will soon be associated with theseregional luxuries for a different reason. A co-operative representing Jersey's ...
Tesco 'curbs' its suppliers' prices
Feb 03, 2008; ... SUPPLIERS to Tesco, the UK's biggest supermarket, have complainedthat the retailer is not allowing them to increase their pricesuntil the end of its financial year in a bid to keep prices in itsstores down. In an attempt to counter food price inflation, suppliers sayTesco has ...
Consultants called in to give Dixons some spark
Feb 03, 2008; ... JOHN BROWETT, the new chief executive of DSGi, the electricalsretailer that owns the Currys and PC World chains, has appointedBoston Consulting Group, the management consultants, to carry out astrategic review of the business. The drafting in of the consultancy firm is the clearest ...
Property crunch hits Heathrow sale
Feb 03, 2008; ... AIRPORT group BAA's sale of its jointly owned pounds 1bnproperty portfolio has been grounded after failing to secure abuyer. BAA owner Ferrovial had hoped to sell the portfolio, which itowns 50:50 with Morley Fund Management, to pay down part of the pounds 7bn debt on the ...
Deal activity falls to 50-month low as credit crunch puts brake on takeovers
Feb 03, 2008; ... GLOBAL share offerings hit a 50-month low last month while thenumber of takeover bids fell to its lowest level since November 2004as companies shunned the capital markets amid fears of an economicslowdown. Figures showing the extent of the slump come as investment banksacross the ...
Labour MP to refer Egg to City watchdog over credit 'slur'
Feb 03, 2008; ... FURY over internet bank Egg's decision to stop high-risk customercredit cards has prompted a Labour MP to refer the matter to thebanking industry watchdog. Nigel Griffiths, a former deputy leader of the House of Commonstold BBC Radio 4 that Egg's action was "unacceptable" and that ...