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Wine, classic cars and art investments offered mixed returns throughout the noughties. Jill Papworth and Patrick Collinson round up the returns Wine Fine wine was the best investment of the decade, with the top French vintages...
Dudley Maasz worked on the railway in Oxford in the 1940s The family of a former railway worker who died from asbestos-related cancer has won a pay-out of almost £100,000. Dudley Maasz was exposed to the deadly material while...
The wave of affluence has not touched this poor old station. It stands as a shabby testament to the failings of the third way Clapham Junction has always been something of a symbol, serving widely in popular British culture as...
Nov 18 (Reuters) - Britain's biggest free-to-air commercial broadcaster ITV has turned to Archie Norman, 55, a turnaround specialist and former Conservative politician, to end its tortuous seven-month hunt for leadership. Here...
Central Parking System, Inc. (Central Parking), the nation's largest parking management company, today announced that its Chicago partnership, CPS Chicago Parking LLC, a partnership between Central Parking and Gomez...
LONDON (Reuters) - Rail fares will rise by an average of 1.1 percent in January, below the rate of inflation and the lowest increase since privatisation, the train operating body said on Monday. The Association of Train...
This article of mine appears in the New Statesman. Rushed through by John Major's government, privatisation has left us with fragmented and user-unfriendly railways, requiring around four times the public subsidy received by...
FirstGroup is investing in drivers on its severely disrupted cross-London First Capital Connect rail service . FCC's reliance on drivers working overtime is a legacy of old British Rail practices. When First's finance director...
Nov 14 2009 by Amy Hunt, Evening Chronicle A PROTEST was due to take place in Newcastle today following the nationalisation of the East Coast Main Line. At midnight the Government took over the rail line from National Express...
Funds specializing in niche assets such as art and wine, long the preserve of ultra-rich hobbyists, are seeing a spike in interest from more mainstream investors seeking an antidote to the complexity of hedge funds.
