13 APRIL 1996, page 24

Room For A View

TWO unrepeatable holes have opened up in the City of London. Enjoy them while they last. One, in St Martin's le Grand, marks the site of a nondescript office block, whose......

City And Suburban

Good news for Rupert and Samantha is moving the market in houses money CHRISTOPHER FILDES W ith the tuneless persistence of an early cuckoo, estate agents promise me that the......

All Hands To The Pumps

STRUGGLING to get the banks off Euro- tunnel's back, Sir Alastair Morton is per- forming a labour of Sisyphus, and I am here to help him. Last month, so I see, more than 200,000......

Shark's Fm Soup

JUST when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, spot that old triangular fin. Yes, it's the European exchange rate mechanism, back again by lack of popular request......

Heads In The Sand

I TURN to the Business Opportunities page of the morning paper and see five opportu- nities for investing in ostriches. This is down from seven the week before, which may have......