28 AUGUST 1993, page 23

Lloyd's Finds Favour

AT LLOYD'S of London, the best news for years — which is not saying much — is the rush to put money in. The merchant banks are now scrambling to come up with new schemes, and......

City And Suburban

Muddled signals and conflicting movements make for railway accidents CHRISTOPHER FILDES L 'merick Junction was so designed that all trains from all directions had to come in......

Time With The Families

I RECALL my surprise when a friend of mine at Oxford said that he was going to work for Barclays Bank. He wanted, so he said, a job he could combine with hunting. I now see that......

Who's In Charge?

I DO NOT believe that what the railways need now is franchising, or unbundling, or reorganising or restructuring. What they need is running. That is a full time job, not just......

Money With Menaces

THEO WAIGEL, Germany's finance min- ister, has been laying down the law on mon- etary union for Europe. If Frankfurt doesn't get the central bank, he says, the whole thing is......