16 AUGUST 1997, page 24

City And Suburban

It's a game of two halves Ken leaves the field and Eddie scores the goals CHRISTOPHER FILDES lien and Eddie Show, late result: Chancellor, 0 Governor 4 (after extra time). This......

Merger Makers And . . .

THERE is nothing like a nice chummy merger. Just think of the economies of scale. You can probably manage with fewer directors, though the ones who stay will want to be paid......

. . . Untied Utilities

THESE tactics, familiar in Britain and America, are now being discovered on the Continent. Two big Bavarian banks are merging on such chummy terms that the matchmaker is......

Say Au Revoir

WELL, there goes the ten-franc kir. It was delicious while it lasted and, for City and Suburban, a triumph of campaigning jour- nalism worthy to rank with the two-dollar......

Tuberculosis

SETTING off for the City this week, I find that London Underground can offer me a choice, of a sort. No Circle line trains, owing to on-going signal problems and not, as I might......

Barclays' Tall Storey

THE BULBOUS tower on its new head office in the Moorish taste has been an embarrassment to Barclays, and not just because of its appearance. It had been standing empty ever......