25 JULY 1998, page 24

Minding The Shop

HIS bank does not say so. It does not say anything much except that nothing has yet been decided. Three new directors have just come on board and the others are get- ting to......

Hospital Case

CITY life is full of hazards as it is. At any moment I may be flattened by a scooter messenger, or bite on a bad piece of smoked salmon, or have my arm twisted or my ear bent or......

Finders Keepers

THE search is on for a new Sleazefinder- General. Sir Gordon Downey, the first man in this ghastly job (the headhunters would rather we called him the Parliamentary Ombudsman)......

Jams Tomorrow.

OUR motorways are one of those British institutions so much envied — like Lloyd's, the BBC and the National Health Service — that nobody has dared to copy them. They are and......

Bet On A Banker

THERE is talk of a caretaker who would keep NatWest's chair warm for him, but that would only make Saturday come round more often. The world of banking is in flux, its barriers......

City And Suburban

Saturday keeps catching up with the board of the National Westminster Bank CHRISTOPHER FILDES T aking time off from his latest Savoy opera, Gilbert wrote a letter of complaint......