The Sunday Telegraph London back issues from August 2008:
day ahead
Aug 03, 2008 ... Interims Admiral, Allied Irish Bank, Aviva, Cadbury, Lloyds TSB,Mondi, Provident Financial, Rexam, Telecity Group, Travis Perkins. Finals Arm ...
Rio Tinto boosts Brazilian iron ore
Aug 03, 2008 ... Mining group Rio Tinto is to spend more than pounds 1bn to boostproduction sixfold at its Corumba iron ore mine in Brazil as ittargets markets in Latin America and the Middle East. The expansion will boost annual capacity at the ...
Guardian group braced for loss
Aug 03, 2008; ... GUARDIAN Media Group will today announce a fall in profits acrossits portfolio of print and radio businesses, which include TheGuardian and The Observer newspapers. Excluding pounds 335m of profit from the disposal of a 49pcstake in Trader Media Group, publisher of Auto Trader, ...
Dignity boosted by memorials
Aug 03, 2008 ... Families spending more on the funerals of their loved ones hasboosted profits in the undertaking industry, according to funeralchain Dignity. Dignity, the only funeral services company listed onthe London Stock Exchange, revealed its profits before tax ...
Inchcape's drive pays off in Asia
Aug 03, 2008 ... Car retailer Inchcape's shares fell 12pc to 258p despite itreporting a 4pc rise in first-half profits to pounds 130m as Asianand emerging markets offset tough trading conditions in the UK andBelgium. Chairman Peter Johnson's comments ...
Anglo-Spanish combination is at the departure gate
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE money-making record of the airline industry is extremelypoor. Having briefly returned to feast after the famine yearsfollowing the dotcom bust, the Sars virus and 9/11, carriers nowface a new profit drought caused by soaring fuel prices and aneconomic downturn. The prospect ...
The Bank needs to take risk from the taxpayer
Aug 03, 2008; ... THERE is much worthy analysis in Sir James Crosby's interimanalysis on mortgage finance published yesterday. He concluded thatthe financial markets behind much of our domestic mortgage marketwould recover in time. He went on: "When they do, however, they arelikely to be different in both ...
Vodafone defends pounds 1bn buyback to investors
Aug 03, 2008 ... Vodafone had to defend its surprise pounds 1bn share buyback toinvestors at its annual meeting as new chief executive VittorioColao predicted that the mobile phone company would keep growingprofitably despite the tougher economic climate. The group, whose departing chief executive ...
Downturn in high street sales is worst since the mid-1980s
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE high street is now suffering its worst slump since comparablerecords began a quarter of a century ago, new figures show. The pound fell by more than a cent against the dollar after theCBI reported retail activity dropped in July by far more thananalysts expected. The business ...
Starbucks cuts back in Australia
Aug 03, 2008 ... Starbucks has announced plans to shut three quarters of itsAustralian coffee shops within the next five days in its latestaggressive cull amid a slowing global economy. The American coffeegiant said it will close 61 of Australia's 84 Starbucks outlets ...
Wolfson cautious as profits slide
Aug 03, 2008 ... Wolfson Microelectronics shares fell 4pc to 117.25p after themaker of chips for mobile phones said it was cautious about thefuture given its dependence on consumer electronics. Profits tumbled 27pc to $9.1m ( pounds 4.6m) pre-tax in the firsthalf. The fall ...
St James's hit by fall in investments
Aug 03, 2008; ... ST JAMES'S Place, the wealth manager part-owned by HBOS, plungedin early trading as the group announced a 5.4pc fall in operatingprofits for the six months to June. Operating profit for the six months to June 30 was pounds114.2m, down from pounds 120.7m, but up on a consensus ...
03.08.08 seven says this is the week to ...
Aug 03, 2008; ... SURF the French New Wave once again. Jean-Luc Godard: The Ultimate Collection, a DVD box set featuring 'Alphaville','Breathless' and 11 other films, is out now REMEMBER Shakespeare isn't the only playwright performedoutdoors. Lorca's modernist marvel 'Blood Wedding' ...
IT'S SUMMERTIME - THE LIVING SHOULD BE EASY
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE GLORIOUS AMERICAN WRITER Flannery O'Connor (who died today in1964) once wrote, 'Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think theuniversities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifleenough of them.' It is summertime, the sun shines and I ought to be out ...
Personally speaking A week in a South African jail and I'm John Pilger in prison overalls
Aug 03, 2008; ... I'm spending a week in a South African jail for a new television series called The Prisoner. I'm notsure why the programme makers thought of me - possibly because I'msuch an unlikely candidate. My last trip abroad was to the Cannesfilm festival and even that felt like a dangerous ...
DIVA BOOT CAMP PHOTOGRAPHY TONY MCGEE SPENT TWO YEARS IN SEARCH OF PERFECTION AMONG A GROUP OF WORLD-CLASS BALLET STUDENTS. SEVEN HUNDRED ROLLS OF FILM LATER, HE FOUND IT
Aug 03, 2008; ... Three hundred and forty-seven steps up at the Central School ofBallet, Clerkenwell, there's a high-ceilinged, raftery room filledwith light. Reaching that room is the peak of any student's career,because it's there that the best dancers get personal tuition fromtheir teachers. And to be ...
We're all ears INTERVIEW DICK BRUNA, THE 80-YEAR-OLD CREATOR OF MIFFY, THE pounds 150 MILLION RABBIT, LEADS A LIFE OF ALMOST ZEN- LIKE SIMPLICITY - OR AT LEAST HE WOULD IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE JAPANESE GROUPIES.
Aug 03, 2008; ... DICK BRUNA HAS ALREADY MADE TEA and brought over biscuits, and now he leans forward from a chairin his airy, top-floor Utrecht studio. Spectacular white walruswhiskers twitch expectantly and behind a pair of oval spectacles,his eyes twinkle. This man - Geppetto made flesh - does ...
The real heart of darkness ADVENTURE HERMAN PERRY KILLED AN OFFICER, FLED THE AMERICAN ARMY AND FOUND PARADISE AMONG BURMESE HEADHUNTERS. HIS INCREDIBLE STORY HAS LARGELY GONE UNTOLD - UNTIL NOW. BRENDAN I. KOERNER REPORTS
Aug 03, 2008; ... It is best to use discretion when confronting an emotionallyshattered man, especially if he's holding a semi-automatic rifle.Harold Cady, a young lieutenant in the United States Army, shouldhave heeded that common-sense advice on the morning of 5 March,1944. But several fellow soldiers ...
OTHER RELEASES Married Life The Love Guru Space Chimps El Bano del Papa Cass
Aug 03, 2008; ... Married Life (PG) Ira Sachs's follow-up to his atmospheric 2005 breakthrough FortyShades of Blue artfully shuffles a quartet of accomplished playersbetween the parlours and bedrooms of late-1940s America. StolidHarry (Chris Cooper) and his hot-to-trot wife, Pat ...
DVDs
Aug 03, 2008; ... SATYAJIT RAY (VOL. 1) ????? ART383, PG, pounds 29.50 Satyajit Ray, India's greatest film-maker, combined Easternsensibilities with Western cultural sophistication. This first boxin a selection of his best works focuses on the 1960s. Charulata(1964), from a novel by Nobel ...
I must go down to the seas again Turmoil and Tranquillity
Aug 03, 2008; ... When the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich opened to thepublic in 1937, its core holdings came from three great privatecollections of the time, namely those of Sir James Caird, Sir BruceIngram and Captain Eric Palmer, along with the historic GreenwichHospital Collection as well as ...
ART CHOICE
Aug 03, 2008; ... Foto: Modernity in Central Europe 1918-1945 Dean Gallery, Edinburgh (0131 624 6200) to 31 Aug. Thebreathtaking rise of modernist photography, amid the interwarferment across central Europe. Featuring Hannah Hoch, AndreKertesz, El Lissitzky and Laszlo ...
primary sex talk THEATRE Under the Blue Sky Collaboration Taking Sides
Aug 03, 2008; ... There is a certain kind of play that is being constructed thesedays that reminds me very much of the architecture that I see goingup around the country. It is not terribly attractive, lackscharacter, does not appear to be built to last and, if not actuallypre-fab, then it certainly seems ...
OTHER THEATRE West Side Story
Aug 03, 2008; ... West Side Story redefined the musical when it first appeared in1957. The inspired reworking of Romeo and Juliet depended for itsnarrative as much on Jerome Robbins's fusion of ballet, contemporaryand jazz dance as it did on Leonard Bernstein's sensational scoreand Stephen Sondheim's ...
swan revolution DANCE National Ballet of China's Swan Lake The Wizard of Oz
Aug 03, 2008; ... Swan Lake might seem a curious, coals-to-Newcastle choice for theCovent Garden debut of the National Ballet of China, but Mme ZhaoRuheng's 50-year-old company is no stranger to the classics. Therewere Russian ballet teachers in China as far back as the 1930s -Margot Fonteyn had her first ...
CDs Out this week
Aug 03, 2008; ... The 20-year-old French pianist Ilse de la Salle is a realvirtuoso but also a true musician. In the Shostakovich she is joinedby trumpeter Gabor Boldoczki, who shares her delight in its playfulwit and sentiment. The Liszt is a tour de force and never vulgar andshe is particularly ...
an eye-opener of a show CLASSICAL Iolanta
Aug 03, 2008; ... Tchaikovsky's last opera is enjoying something of a revival. Afragile piece, far removed from the drama of Eugene Onegin or TheQueen of Spades, and lacking a single 'baddie' of the kind favouredby traditional opera fans, Iolanta has been coming steadily into itsown ever since Opera ...
swell-to-great guys ORGANIST JAMES O'DONNELL PLAYS MESSIAEN AT THE PROMS
Aug 03, 2008; ... Big themes thread their way through this summer's Promsprogramme, themes that by their very nature give rise to variation.The major celebration of Olivier Messiaen's centenary is a case inpoint, for in addition to inspiring several orchestral concerts ofhis music, the anniversary is also ...
which one do you like? POP Kylie Minogue
Aug 03, 2008; ... It's difficult to say what story the strictly sensational KylieMinogue might be telling as she performs the third night of a week'sseason at the O2 Arena. To go by the sets, props, dancing charactersand costume changes, the story being told involves robots, Americanfootballers, ...
CDs Out this week
Aug 03, 2008; ... This Californian quintet play the sort of gentle, articulate folkthat leaves you feeling not only entranced but strangely edifiedtoo. They've been variously likened to the Decembrists, Iron & Wine,Bright Eyes and Elliott Smith, which is true - and they're at leastas good as if not better ...
DANCE JASON WEBSTER ON HOW ONE MAN FOUND ADVENTURE, PASSION AND TRAVEL IN A DANCE Long After Midnight at the Nino Bien: The Tango and Argentina BY BRIAN WINTER HEINEMANN, pounds 16.99, 247 pp T pounds 14.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Aug 03, 2008; ... This is a story about a young man seeking adventure andexperience in a world where such things appear ever harder to find.Brian Winter, a young Texan, dreamed of becoming a journalist in themould of Ernest Hemingway, unfortunately he reached adulthood in thelate 1990s, 'when seemingly ...
HISTORY JERRY BROTTON IS FASCINATED BY THE STORY TOLD BY A PAINTER'S PROPS Vermeer's Hat: The 17th Century and the Dawn of the Global World PROFILE, pounds 18.99, 272 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Aug 03, 2008; ... We are drawn to Vermeer's paintings as mundane enigmas. Theyappear to capture moments of banal domestic life utterly removedfrom the pressures of the wider world: a woman reading a letter by awindow, a couple flirting at a table, a maid pouring a jug of milk,a young girl wearing a pearl ...
TITLE DEED HOW THE BOOK GOT ITS NAME 'zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance' by robert pirsig
Aug 03, 2008; ... What is the connection between Ray Bradbury and Robert Pirsig? Wetend to think of Pirsig's novel Zen and the Art of MotorcycleMaintenance (1974) as having a title of unique quirky brilliance.But it drew for inspiration on a whole corpus of earlier books, manyof which had been extremely ...
HISTORY JERRY BROTTON IS FASCINATED BY THE STORY TOLD BY A PAINTER'S PROPS Vermeer's Hat: The 17th Century and the Dawn of the Global World BY TIMOTHY BROOK PROFILE, pounds 18.99, 272 pp T pounds 16.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Aug 03, 2008; ... We are drawn to Vermeer's paintings as mundane enigmas. Theyappear to capture moments of banal domestic life utterly removedfrom the pressures of the wider world: a woman reading a letter by awindow, a couple flirting at a table, a maid pouring a jug of milk,a young girl wearing a pearl ...
NATIONHOOD GRAHAM HUTCHINGS IS REMINDED WHY CHINA MAY NEVER BE 'LIKE US' China: A Wolf in the World BY GEORGE WALDEN GIBSON SQUARE, pounds 14.99, 304 pp T pounds 12.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Aug 03, 2008; ... It used to be difficult to find a decent book on China in thetypical British bookshop. It sometimes still is, despite China'sgrowing clout in international affairs and the approach of theOlympic Games - the country's long-sought 'coming out' ceremony. There are exceptions and we ...
BIOGRAPHY NOEL MALCOLM LOOKS AT WHY A GERMAN COMPOSER INSPIRED A CHORUS OF BRITISH HALLELUJAHS Handel: The Man and his Music BY JONATHAN KEATES THE BODLEY HEAD, pounds 25, 432 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Aug 03, 2008; ... The British have often taken national pride in Handel's music,and they can hardly be blamed for doing so. From the moment hesettled in London in 1712, he became a central figure in English -and, for one crucial season, Irish - musical life. He took Britishnationality, lost his umlaut, ...
LITERARY LIFE
Aug 03, 2008; ... Penguin China, now three years old, has set up a literary prize called 'The Next - A Search for the New Faceof Chinese Literature'. It is very much a collaborative affair: theaward is being run with the help of Changjiang Art & LiteraturePublishing, Top Novel, a magazine for young ...
BIOGRAPHY MUNRO PRICE ON THE SCHOOLMARM CHARMS OF A ROYAL MISTRESS Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV BY VERONICA BUCKLEY BLOOMSBURY, pounds 25, 452 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Aug 03, 2008; ... 'My life ... has been a miracle.' Madame de Maintenon's words,spoken during her last years, were no overstatement. Born in aprison in western France into a penniless family in 1635, reduced atthe age of 12 to begging for food in the streets of La Rochelle,Francoise d'Aubigne rose to ...
HISTORY MALCOLM GASKILL DOES TIME WITH A PRISON WITH A PAST The Gaol: The Story of Newgate, London's Most Notorious Prison BY KELLY GROVIER JOHN MURRAY, pounds 25, 332 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 Madame de Maintenon: The Secret Wife of Louis XIV BY VERONICA BUCKLEY BLOOMSBURY, pounds 25, 452 pp T pounds xx.xx ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Aug 03, 2008; ... It is the habit of incarcerated writers to write about theirordeals. Everyone from John Bunyan to Jeffrey Archer has done it.According to Kelly Grovier, Daniel Defoe, banged up for sedition in1703, 'squeezed what he had suffered inside the prison through hisquill and out spilled Moll ...
PAPERBACKS GOD'S ARCHITECT BY ROSEMARY HILL PENGUIN, pounds 10.99
Aug 03, 2008; ... Here is a fully researched and highly readable life of the RomanCatholic architect responsible for Big Ben and three cathedrals aswell as for a host of Gothic Revival churches, though he died in1852 at only 40. It was his dissolute life (probably giving himsyphilis) ...
PAPERBACKS PISTOLS AT DAWN BY RICHARD HOPTON, PIATKUS, pounds 11.99
Aug 03, 2008; ... Duelling was always illegal, but honour mattered more than thelaw, we read in this intriguing history. Afterwards, friendshipcould be resumed. The duellists often seem to have been very badshots, and I wonder why more did not get killed, accidentally ...
PAPERBACKS MRS WOOLF AND THE SERVANTS BY ALISON LIGHT PENGUIN, pounds 8.99
Aug 03, 2008; ... Like all her class, and despite her advanced views, Virginiaalways had servants, and Alison Light is good on her relationshipswith them. This charming book is as much about Bloomsbury as aboutthe people who kept the Woolfs' life smooth. Some members of ...
PAPERBACKS ONE TO NINE BY ANDREW HODGES SHORT BOOKS, pounds 7.99
Aug 03, 2008; ... Andrew Hodges, a sprightly and elegant writer, starts this bookabout mathematics with an easily intelligible and beguilingreference to Jane Austen, calls Orwell a grumpy old man, and tendsto begin chapters with a quickly digestible witticism. The one onSix, for example, ...
PAPERBACKS HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS BY J. K. ROWLING BLOOMSBURY, pounds 8.99
Aug 03, 2008; ... School is well and truly out in the seventh and final instalmentof J. K. Rowling's series. Harry, now 17, and his friends have leftHogwarts to embark on a frightening expedition in search of'horcruxes' (fragments of his arch-enemy Voldemort's soul), whilebeing hunted ...
PAPERBACKS SKYLARK FARM BY ANTONIA ARSLAN ATLANTIC, pounds 8.99
Aug 03, 2008; ... A cry of anguish as well as a loving tribute to her ancestors,this 'novel' is Antonia Arslan's dramatic account of the decimationof her family in the 1915 Armenian massacre in Anatolia. Hernarrative (well translated by Geoffrey Brock) is both intimate andepic in tone, ...
Road test THE LATEST SKODA IS IN THE AUDI CLASS. IT'S NOT CALLED 'SUPERB' FOR NOTHING, SAYS NEIL LYNDON
Aug 03, 2008; ... CALLING A CAR SUPERB IS, self-evidently, handing a hostage tofortune. A boxer might embroider such a sobriquet on his dressing-gown just before he came a cropper in the ring; or a singer might beset up with that handle on Blackpool's illuminations just before theaudience booed her off ...
BRIDGE
Aug 03, 2008; ... DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR? You bid via a sound and well-controlled auction to an excellentcontract. Then you give it every grey cell and come up with theoptimum line of play, only to find ... If you want to blight your Sunday morning with a hard luck story,just look at these ...
CHESS
Aug 03, 2008; ... A WORLDWIDE BLITZ TOURNAMENT was held on the Internet Chess Clubas part of the Sultan of Brunei's 62nd birthday celebrations. IMArthur Gabrielyan of Russia, playing under the name 'Dinamit',emerged victorious on 11.5/13 thanks to his defeat of America'sHikaru Nakamura, aka ...
POKER
Aug 03, 2008; ... WHEN PETER EASTGATE, from Denmark, sat down to play day one of the Main Event thisyear, he was wearing the colours and insignia of his sponsor,Ladbrokes. By the time, nearly two weeks later, that he had qualified for the final table as one of the so-called 'November ...
Centrica plots pounds 22bn British Energy deal
Aug 03, 2008; ... CENTRICA, Britain's biggest gas and electricity supplier, is tosound out institutional shareholders about reviving plans for a pounds 22.5bn all-share merger with British Energy, The SundayTelegraph has learned. Centrica, which owns British Gas, will gauge the appetite of ...
Economists say rates may rise as MPC braces for 'difficult' meeting
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE Monetary Policy Committee could blindside the markets with anincrease in interest rates this week as it convenes for a meetingeconomists describe as "the most difficult" it has faced. Although most observers still believe the MPC will keep rates onhold, markets are bracing ...
Alton Towers owner looks at bid for US attractions
Aug 03, 2008; ... SOME of Britain's biggest visitor attractions, including AltonTowers and the London Dungeon, are being lined up for a possiblemerger with the owner of Florida's Sea World, paving the way for astock market flotation that could see the combined group headstraight into the ...
Chinese state-owned oil giant Sinopec gatecrashes bid for London- listed Imperial
Aug 03, 2008; ... ONE of China's biggest state-owned oil companies has gatecrashedthe sale of Imperial Energy by launching a bid to buy the pounds1.1bn London-listed energy firm. Sinopec, which is one of China's flagship oil refiners,approached Imperial Energy last week. If it succeeds, it would ...
HBOS launches fund to offload company stakes
Aug 03, 2008; ... HBOS, Britain's biggest mortgage bank, is to offload a pounds400m portfolio of investments in some of the country's largestprivate companies as it shrinks its balance sheet and scales backits principal investment activities. The company has asked UBS, the investment bank, to raise ...
CORRECTION
Aug 03, 2008 ... BUPA Care Homes was not sold off last year, as stated in lastweek's edition of the Sunday Telegraph Business section, and is notowned by private equity investors. It remains part of Bupa, acompany limited by ...
Legal training group joins ranks of suitors for publisher Wilmington
Aug 03, 2008; ... THE legal training group BPP which has educated some of theCity's top corporate lawyers, is putting together a takeover bid forrival Wilmington, publisher of the journalists' trade magazine PressGazette. The company has asked advisers at Dresdner Kleinwort whether itshould make ...
Oil giants muscle in on Origin deal
Aug 03, 2008; ... SHELL and BP have both approached Origin Energy about its coalseam gas assets, a move that could scupper BG Group's A$13.8bn (pounds 6.5bn) hostile bid for the Australian energy firm. Since BG made a hostile bid for Origin, the Australian companyhas been soliciting proposals on how ...
Sorrell secures option to sell TNS TV unit
Aug 03, 2008; ... WPP, Sir Martin Sorrell's marketing services group, hasnegotiated an option to sell the television monitoring arm of marketresearch company Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) as part of its pounds 1.1bn hostile takeover bid. The offer document, which WPP posted to TNS investors last ...
Carvill carves out next insurance windfall
Aug 03, 2008; ... INSURANCE entrepreneur Rory Carvill could be about to makeanother multi-million pound fortune after entering into talks tosell a stake in reinsurance broker Carvill to an American privateequity fund. Stone Point Capital, a buyout fund that specialises in financialservices, is in ...
CRUDDAS FIRM TO TAKE AXE TO WORKFORCE
Aug 03, 2008; ... CMC Markets, the financial trading business majority owned by oneof the City's richest men, is cutting just over 10 per cent of itsworkforce, write Louise Armitstead and Katherine Griffiths. CMC, founded by its executive chairman Peter Cruddas, whosefamily still controls ...
Share price plunge prompts CVC to look at Punch Taverns
Aug 03, 2008; ... CVC CAPITAL Partners, the private equity group, has beenconsidering making a takeover approach to Punch Taverns, the pubsoperator which has seen its share price fall by more than 70 percent during the past year. CVC is among a number of buyout firms that have been assessing abid ...
Scottish millionaires eye Dawnay, Day properties
Aug 03, 2008; ... A PAIR of brothers who are among Scotland's richest men areunderstood to be circling a pounds 125m portfolio of propertyassets owned by the ailing Dawnay, Day investment group. Calum and Stuart Melville, who made a multi-million pound fortunefrom the sale of their industrial ...
United Biscuits posts loss as commodity prices bite
Aug 03, 2008; ... UNITED Biscuits, the Jaffa Cakes to Jacob's Crackers owner, slumped to a pounds 24m loss last yearafter rising commodity costs and expenses linked to the company's pounds 1.6bn private equity buyout hit the business. UB, Britain's biggest biscuit maker and owned by BlackStone ...
Arabic investors find London an oasis of luxury
Aug 03, 2008; ... THERE was a certain desperation about the luxury brands whichlined up in their droves to court the Arab tourists at the firstSaudi Gulf Luxury Trader Fair at the InterContinental hotel inLondon's Park Lane yesterday, writes Lucy Barnard. Models in gold Kruszynska ball gowns ...
Cazenove merger supremo may quit after job snub
Aug 03, 2008; ... IAN HANNAM, one of the City of London's most prolific mergeradvisers, is this weekend contemplating his future after missing outon the top job at JP Morgan Cazenove. Hannam, who has overseen the flotations of natural resourcescompanies such as Kazakhmys, BHP Billiton and Xstrata, ...