Recently added articles from The Evening Standard (London, England):
BBC should ban Boyle for spoon slur, says top swimmer
Nov 02, 2009; Anna Davis ... OLYMPIC champion Rebecca Adlington today called for a comedian tobe banned by the BBC after he said she looked like a reflection inthe back of a spoon. The swimmer, 20, who won two gold medals in Beijing last year,was humiliated by "outrageous slurs" from Frankie Boyle. Her ...
BA workers in mass protest as strike threat grows over cuts
Nov 02, 2009; Dick Murray ... HUNDREDS of British Airways cabin crew today held a mass protestagainst changes to working conditions amid growing fears that theywill strike before Christmas. Union bosses, who plan to ballot thousands of staff, called foran "army" of protesters to show chief executive Willie ...
Queen's knicker-maker beats the crunch as couples stay at home
Nov 02, 2009; Rosamund Urwin ... LINGERIE firm Rigby & Peller has defied the recession thanks tocash-strapped couples spending more evenings at home. Sales at the lingerie retailer, which has a royal warrant and sixstores in London, rose 14 per cent to Pounds 10 million in thefinancial year to the end of ...
HOW exciting that the story [...] ; Londoner's Diary
Nov 02, 2009; ... HOW exciting that the story of Freedom of Information campaignerHeather Brooke is to be dramatised by the BBC. She started thebattle for MPs' ...
We celebrate best of the stage -- and pay tribute to Natasha
Nov 02, 2009; Louise Jury ... IT HAS been a year when Sam Mendes finally returned to Londontheatre, Jude Law and David Tennant were mobbed as Hamlet andaudiences flooded the West End as never before. With 2009 set to be a blockbuster year at the box office, today'slonglist for the London Evening Standard ...
Showtime for the female directors
Nov 02, 2009; ... Showtime for the female directors How Sam, Penny, ...
CHOICE
Nov 02, 2009; JANE SHILLING ... INTO THE STORM 8.30, BBC2 In 2002, Albert Finney played WinstonChurchill in Hugh Whitemore's drama of Churchill's wilderness years.Tonight Brendan Gleeson takes on the role as Whitemore depictsChurchill the war leader and inspiration of his beleaguered country.With such a huge historical ...
There's more to business than money
Nov 02, 2009; Anthony Hilton ... THE boss of BP, Tony Hayward, said this weekend in public whatmany in business believe but precious few are prepared to live by. He told the Sunday Times that there was "no industrial logic atall" in the mergers of large oil companies which were such a featureof the last decade -- ...
Favre bites hand that once fed him ; IN BRIEF
Nov 02, 2009; ... BRETT FAVRE savoured a triumphant but frosty homecoming, throwingfour touchdowns as the Minnesota Vikings beat the Green Bay Packers38-26 in the NFL. Back to face his former team for the first time since a messysplit in 2007, the quarterback was jeered by a Green Bay ...
Pounds 40 for a party? Thanks a lot
Nov 02, 2009; ... A QUESTION of etiquette: is it acceptable to invite friends andcontacts to your Christmas party and then charge them Pounds 40 ahead for the privilege? That's what Shire Health Group founderMargot James, who sold her business to Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP forPounds 4 million in 2004, is ...
Yankees closing in on World Series title ; IN BRIEF
Nov 02, 2009; ... THE NEW YORK YANKEES can clinch their first World Series tonightsince 2000 after beating Philadelphia 7-4 in game four to lead 3-1.With the score tied at 4-4 going into the ninth innings, the Yankeestook the lead with runs from Alex Rodriguez and ...
Lynch that stole Xmas
Nov 02, 2009; ... WORRYING news filtering through to the thousands of Merrill Lynchstaffers in London from the Charlotte, North Carolina, HQ of theirBank of America paymasters. There will be no Christmas party -- for a second year running.Some conspiracy theorists blame the climate of austerity ...
HOW much progress is the [...]
Nov 02, 2009; ... HOW much progress is the Financial Reporting Council making withbreaking up the unhealthy grip of the Big Four auditors? Er, none.Three years ago, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte and Ernst & Young audited 96%of the FTSE 100. Now they account for 94% of ...
Barclays turmoil as Odey sells
Nov 02, 2009; Mickey Clark ... BARCLAYS got caught up in the early turmoil which engulfed thebanking sector today and saw its shares slump to a three-month low. Its price touched 314p before rallying hard to trade 0.75p betterat 322.9p. But that compares with the 360p a share at which theQatari sovereign wealth ...
Sanctimony that leads to the real scandal of office sex
Nov 02, 2009; Chris Blackhurst ... WE were sitting in Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's (I know, I know,it's part of the job and I wasn't paying) and the chat turned tooffice sex. Andrew Moss, the chief executive of Aviva, had admitted to havingan affair with a junior colleague who subsequently left the firm.There was ...
Whitmarsh vows McLaren will be back on the button in 2010 ; British team's boss says the F1 giant's new car is already a threat and pledges Lewis Hamilton will be a title contender. By David Smith
Nov 02, 2009; David Smith ... McLAREN boss Martin Whitmarsh today warned his Formula One rivalsthat next year's car is already quicker than this year's model. The British team recovered from a wretched start -- 14 pointsfrom the first nine races -- to take 57 points from the closingeight grands prix and clinch ...
No excusing Agassi's harum-scarum tales ; Sporting Miscellanies
Nov 02, 2009; Matthew Norman ... HOW many more confessions can we take from that gushing geyser ofbelated truth-telling, Andre Agassi? Crystal meth has given way totaking speed at his father's behest, yet the drugs seem small frynext to the one that puts Manchester United's grey shirts and dartsplayer Mervin "the King" ...
Confidence is more than a numbers game ; Sporting Miscellanies
Nov 02, 2009; Matthew Norman ... THE inflation rate for sporting confidence makes Zimbabwe looklike Switzerland. A while back Michael Schumacher's agent WilliWeber insisted he was "200 per cent sure" his client wouldn't returnto F1 a day before the German announced his wish to replace FelipeMassa in the ...
TECHKNOW
Nov 02, 2009; ... Sony's snappily named STRDA5400ES amplifier has won pretty muchevery award going, and with good reason. It's not cheap at aroundPounds 1,400 but this is an astonishingly good piece of kit thatwill revolutionise both music and home cinema listening. It's simpleto set up and can even drive ...
Wipe that grin off your face, Darling, you scare me
Nov 02, 2009; ... I'VE learnt a new word, I don't mind admitting. Grin-f****d. Asin Hank Paulson saying, in Andrew Ross Sorkin's new book, Too Big toFail: Inside the Battle to Save Wall Street, that the British had"grinf****d" the US by blocking the plan to allow Barclays to takeover Lehman. It's ...
