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City Spy: How independent is Smith's broker?

05.09.11
Last week WH Smith said it would be doubling its share buyback programme, another £50 million worth... more

City Spy: Desmond pays tribute to Docklands founder

06.07.11
To Canary Wharf, along with Express Group boss Richard Desmond, who swept up in his Roller, with impressively muscled driver, to pay tribute to Reg Ward, the recently deceased founder of modern Docklands... more

Start-up fever among City PR firms

04.07.11
Change is afoot in the world of PR. A wave of high-ranking staff at various corporate public relations agencies are getting itchy feet and quitting to launch their own firms... more

City Spy: Pringle's crisp exit from ad land job

30.06.11
The advertising industry gave a good send-off to Hamish Pringle, departing director-general of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, with a party at the Royal Horticultural Halls in Westminster last night - complete with tubes of Pringles crisps, of course... more

City Spy: Barclays offers 7% - if you're a banker

20.05.11
Hurry, hurry: Barclays is paying 7% interest. That's a fair whack above the average 0.5% banks are paying out to savings customers, and even more generous than NS&I's new inflation-beating savings certificate. Oh, but hang on...... more

PR firms' 10% surge on bounceback

05.05.11
Britain's top public relations firms saw fee income surge an average of almost 10% last year as the industry bounced back from recession... more

Great ideas for half-term fun

19.10.10
It’s not just kids who get to enjoy the school holiday — there are great activities in the capital and beyond for all ages this month... more

City Spy: Hands puts Citi on rack over EMI deal

08.09.10
You've got to love Terra Firma boss Guy Hands' legal evidence of brown-nosing from Citigroup bankers as they allegedly persuaded him to overpay for their client, record label EMI... more

How about Sir Terry Leahy as a firm hand on Ocado tiller?

20.07.10
The Tesco chief is looking for new projects, and the online grocer may want to ditch its flashier advisers... more

City Spy: Will business still hire Peter Mandelson the gossip?

13.07.10
Will Mandy’s indiscretions be a turn-off for City firms looking to hire him as a high-powered fixer? Probably not... more

Why British business needs a takeover on this panel

01.06.10
City Comment: Sir Dominic Cadbury has delivers a scornful attack on Kraft - stinging words which will hit home on the Takeover Panel... more

City Spy: PR Week unveils its top spinners of the year

26.03.10
PR Week magazine has unveiled its Power Book of the most influential public relations practitioners, based partly on the opinions of “20 senior professional journalists”, and there are a few surprises... more

City Spy: Lord Carter’s peerage in bag for Paris move

05.03.10
Au revoir, Lord Carter. The former broadcasting minister and ex-chief executive of Brunswick has had enough of London... more

Spelling out the Keystone intrigue

25.09.09
Gulf Keystone, the AIM-listed Kurdistan explorer made a major discovery in Northern Iraq last month and saw its shares hit the stratosphere — rising from 9p to 90p in a little under three weeks... ... more

City Spy: Bid ’em up is back for M&A action

08.09.09
A giant-sized welcome is in order to Bruce Wasserstein, the Lazards chief and legendary New York banker who is leading the Kraft takeover bid for Cadbury... more

City Spy: For Carter's pal, no wheat - just chaff

23.07.09
What do government ministers do with their time? It's a moot question, given the state the country is in, but some clue comes from the exchange of emails between the recently departed communications minister Lord Carter and his former employer, Brunswick ... more

City Spy: Government minister is so cosy with Brunswick

21.07.09
Just how close has outgoing communications minister Stephen Carter been to his old employer, City public relations firm Brunswick?... more

Dot to dot career of Britain's digital tsar Stephen Carter

17.06.09
From law to advertising to Ofcom to No 10, few CVs could match that of Stephen Carter. But what will the communications minister do next?... more

Husband of Brunswick exec admits £3.2m insider charges

19.12.08
Banking: An executive at City public relations firm Brunswick has been caught up in an embarrassing insider trading case after her husband passed on confidential tips about takeovers... more

RBS ignored its own experts on the crunch

07.11.08
As Stephen Hester settles into the Fred the Shred memorial chair at Royal Bank of Scotland’s headquarters (is he going to keep the palace outside Edinburgh?), the new broom is doubtless in receipt of advice from all quarters... more

Fuel bills that fleece us all

21.10.08
THERE are some pertinent questions to be asked about energy prices and it is to the benefit of consumers that the Prime Minister is asking them. Gordon Brown has pointed out that while gas and electricity prices rose to take account of the increased price of oil, there have been no corresponding cuts in fuel bills as the price of oil comes down. Ed Miliband, the Energy Secretary, has met the six big energy retailers to tell them that the Government wants prices to fall. Meanwhile, the former head of Energywatch, Allan Asher, has said that consumers' annual bills of £1,200 could be reduced by up to a third if there were reforms to the wholesale market and greater competition between suppliers. He has a point: at a time when official inflation figures are just over five per cent, some suppliers have increased gas prices by a third.... more

Politics

08.10.08
The Tories are in the ascendancy and gaining influence. Already the key figures in Westminster and beyond are thinking about the post-Brown generation.... more

Finance

08.10.08
Britain will look to the Square Mile to pull it out of the economic mire, and these are the big names who will deliver the recovery. ... more

The rise and fall of Gordon's PR guru

03.09.08
As the Prime Minister's September 'relaunch' flops, we reveal today how internal wars in No 10 are adding to Mr Brown's problems and could lead to another very embarrassing exit... more

Of inflation hawks and bolting horses

30.07.08
There may be a three-way split at the Bank of England over what to do with interest rates, with some arguing for a cut, others a rise, and the rest no change at all. ... more

Informal boho

12.09.07
Balfour is a good-looking, independent joint whose mix of informal boho and retro-industrial styling offers a real fillip to the street.... more

Going a little overboard

29.08.07
LMNT II offers unusually good value for money but too often, dishes were spoilt by poor conception and bad execution.... more


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