18 AUGUST 1984, page 17

A Wider Circle

rr he greatest test for the policy of selling 1 state assets, and for the magic circle of six merchant banks in charge of the sales, is now three months away. Then, half of......

City And

Salomon abdicates private banking loses its most public : I. advocate as Sir Walter Salomon slips into the wings. He has ended 34 years as chairman of Rea Brothers, the City......

Poor Ould Sod

he latest excuse for the Irish economy, 1 so Richard West tells us (The Irish example', 11 August), is that they do not have North Sea oil. They may or may not have Celtic Sea......

Narcolept Writes

T hat boring bookshop in Ipswich clearly does not know its business, or read its stock. The shop has been set up to special- ise in the tedious, and will offer insomniacs and......

Thames On Fire

T hames Television is looking more sale- , able than ever. Profits before tax up by half, to £13 million, in the year which ended in March. Growth was export-led, by sales of......