Hints and tips:
...Berkshire had struck a deal about six years ago to acquire an interest in Pilot Travel Centers, founded by billionaire James “Big Jim” Haslam II, patriarch of a powerful Tennessee family....
...Founded by Geoff and Laura Souster in 1978 and relocated in 2004 to a Grade II-listed former coaching inn, the tailors has cut suits for clients including Eric Morecambe, Michael Bublé, Lenny Henry and James...
...Flexjet said it would merge with Horizon Acquisition Corporation II to publicly list on the New York Stock Exchange....
...As Warren Buffett said: “As a group, lemmings may have a rotten image, but no individual lemming has ever received bad press.”...
...We start in St James’s Street, once a warren of chocolate and coffee houses, which, in turn, gave way to gambling houses before becoming the gentlemen’s clubs we know today: Boodle’s (No 28), Brooks’s (No...
...And the World War I, World War II contributed to a big reduction of inequality. Here, I take a much broader comparative and international perspective....
...swinging decade, the 13th Duke of Bedford, wore a ruffle-cuffed shirt with a giant lace bib that was pure King’s Road-meets-King James II....
...(BBC) My perfect summer Martha Stewart’s taking the helicopter, Terence Conran is in trouble on the beach, and Marlon James (pictured) is wishing he was on the Orient Express....
...James Hogg, author of the classic novel of twisted religion The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, asked John Murray II to find him a wife; Byron asked him to collect from the London...
...Read the full article from the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Lindsay Fortado and James Fontanella-Khan....
...Another myth is that muggings are rare: robbers are too scared of not being able to find their way out of the Barbican’s notoriously confusing warren of walkways....
...You can read the story from the FT’s Anna Nicolaou and DD’s James Fontanella-Khan here....
...Two works by Kerry James Marshall, who became the highest-selling living black artist last month, sold quickly from Jack Shainman and David Zwirner, reportedly for $10m combined....
...Letters in response to this article: Mifid II is just a part of the shift in asset management / From Mark Westwell, London, UK A global restructuring of monopoly capitalism / From John Ure, University...
...Warren estimates that 10 per cent of his buyers are international, with most interest coming from the Middle East....
...Founded in 1958 by James Haslam II in Virginia as a gas station, Flying Pilot now operates 750 outlets that combine gas stations and retail stores across the US and Canada under the Pilot Travel Centers...
...Her organisation, whose backers include Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor, offers one possible answer....
...The splendour of the auditoria can adjoin a warren of constrained spaces behind the curtains – and their listed status can make redesign difficult and costly....
...He has been called “secretive” and “reclusive”, nicknamed “JR” after the scheming oil tycoon in Dallas, and even “Dr No”, after the James Bond villain....
...Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway group is the largest investor in Munich Re, with more than 11 per cent....
...James Lovegrove …………………………………………………………….....
...In 1095, Pope Urban II delivered a sermon in Clermont, France, calling on Christians to recapture the holy city of Jerusalem from Muslim rule....
...Pinewood Shepperton eased 0.7 per cent to 209p after Warren James Holding declared a raised interest of 25.7 per cent....
...Lex: Berkshire Hathaway, a study in mathematics Warren Buffett, the Bob Hope of the investing world, offered investors worried about succession planning at Berkshire Hathaway little reassurance in his...
...Swiss Re handed $1.1bn to Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway in the final months of last year to repay the convertible capital notes the US investor had put into the reinsurer during the financial crisis...
International Edition