17 JUNE 1989, page 20

Prenant Le Biscuit

GOOD heavens, or rather tiens — c'est l'olivier de bain. Britain's noblest and most taken-over biscuit is now in the hands of the French. The previous, American, own- er, RJR......

Henry And The Tiger

THAT will show the Chinese. The great Hong Kong trading house of Jardine Matheson — 'the Princely Hong' — is bringing up reinforcements. Henry Kes- wick is to be chairman of......

The Treasury Stakes

THE PUCE linoleum of the Treasury's corridors of power echoes to the footfalls of a new civil servant. He is Sir Terence Burns, no less, the Chief Economic Advis- er, and he has......

City And Suburban

Duck loves Garbo, or the patching up of the Winships of Downing Street CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t was a melting moment, in the Grand Committee Room of Westminster Hall, when peace......