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City And Suburban

The Barclays branch at Little Pottering reopens with a visit from Sir Topham Hatt CHRISTOPHER FILDES A ter the branch line, the branch bank. We say that we loved them but we......

The Fatwah Strikes

THE trouble with Barclays is not in the branches but at the head office. I have long maintained that there is a fatwah on this bulbous monster in the Moorish taste, known to its......

Ken's Word, Ken's Bond

KEN Livingstone says that the Internation- al Monetary Fund is still appalling and the IMF could say the same of him. A cynical prime minister (not that we have one) might have......

Aunt Hattie's Legacy

GORDON Brown is living the Antiques Roadshow dream. This begins with an ugly old pot in the hall, which used to belong to Aunt Hattie, no beauty herself. It has been used to......

Appearance Money

IT'S a dog's life, being a non-executive director. Chairmen keep holding meetings on Wednesdays, which mucks up both weekends. Worse still, all these codes — Cadbury, Greenbury,......

Chancellors' Luck

HE has certainly been luckier than a previ- ous chancellor who, less than a decade ago, was increasing the National Debt by a bil- lion pounds every week. By way of bolster- ing......