14 FEBRUARY 1998, page 22

Bell Push

SBC WARBURG Dillon Read (apparently incorporating Christie's) is the investment banking arm of the Untied Bank of Switzerland, or will be as soon as the Swiss authOrities give......

City And Suburban

No painless cure for our inflationary bug there's a lot of it about CHRISTOPHER FILDES T he trade union leader was lying on his sickbed when his comrades sent a message to him.......

The Square Theme Park

PRESCOTTS Bank in Cornhill was an 18th-century City survival. The Prescotts were long gone (to Hull?) and their bank was a branch of the National Westminster, but it kept its......

When You're In A Hole . . .

MY railway correspondent, I.K. Gricer, is blowing off steam. His latest proposal is to merge the Channel Tunnel rail link with the Jubilee line extension. Like that, he says, we......

. . . Stop Digging

OVER at Railtrack, they have been read- ing the Gricer report (which I published a fortnight ago) and have taken it to heart. They agree that if they are to take this hole on......

Those Who Ask Don't Get

AN encouraging note has gone out to the staff, past and present, of Harcourt Brace, the publishing house. They are being encour- aged to provide for their old age, because from......