“It is now clear that Mr Mandelson took an active part in pushing nationality matters which is none of his business as Dome minister or his constituency role and quite improper when there is a question over £1m being given by these same people for a project that was desperately in need of support at [...]
Separate charges are expected to be brought under health and safety legislation, which could lead to the two companies being fined millions of pounds.The interim report revealed that the trainee driver of the service involved in the derailment should not have been at the controls. She was a month short of the experience required to [...]
Marjorie made General Foods the conglomerate it is today; it was she who had the bright idea of buying Mr Birdseye’s backyard frosting business, and turning it into something big. It is worth wondering why a woman of such consequently colossal wealth became so fervent a Democrat. The older families in Washington are known as [...]
The individual wealth of venture capitalists is a closely guarded secret but, in the case of Hicks Muse’s partners is likely to run well into nine figures. In the UK, various industry figures are thought to have built up vast personal fortunes. Its most famous exponents are Jon Moulton, managing partner of Alchemy, who narrowly [...]
With the support of the Labour conference and the TUC for a reintroduction of the link between pensions and earnings, pensioners were assured of a windfall. But the Chancellor was wrong to focus so much of his cash on all pensioners, with a boost to the state pension and the winter fuel allowance, rather than [...]
Corals is thought to have put on ice a stock market float, and its owners would welcome an exit via a trade sale. William Hill, the other big operator, owned by venture capitalists CVC and Cinven, will decide next month whether to proceed with its flotation.Both Corals and William Hill are worth about £1bn, valuations [...]
And the reason for that, I think, goes back to a process that began in the Twenties.Many of the people who, in the years following the First World War, took moving pictures out of the hands of gentleman amateurs and turned it into a national industry were former factory owners who transformed the way film [...]
When Prince did that, it was labelled “ground-breaking”, but he never managed punk rock or country, or the wonderful Prince parody “Debra”. Beck is from a different planet, unlike the “aliens attack” clowning he concluded with.In comparison, the hapless Placebo, the sound of a garage band trying to combine New Order and The Wedding Present [...]
That will no longer be there to be used for beds, nurses, doctors or drugs.”That is why our proposals are rather better.”. Hospital consultants will today warn the Government that the NHS faces a series of legal cases unless it implements European rules limiting their workload to 48 hours a week. Hospital consultants will today [...]
So long as they had a trim waist they did not care what was carried below it.Breasts – usually too small but sometimes too large – were what also brought him a lot of custom. In his early years – he was now 45 and clearly prosperous – he had operated on a lot of [...]
