28 NOVEMBER 1998, page 32

For That Much Money. . .

WE shall now observe a moment of silence, to mark the plight of some of Britain's best- paid businessmen. (Sssh. Thank you.) Colin Sharman explains why 114 of them put their......

Someone Else's Baby

'MY LORDS, bye-bye, and Members of the House of Commons, my government Will continue with economic policies designed to build stability. Productivity will be improved by......

Subsidence

IT HAS been no pleasure to watch BTR, the house that Owen Green built, falling down. Now it has fallen to a cut-price bid from Siebe, but what a target it would have made for......

. . . They Should Worry

STILL, people like him yearn to shorten their worry lists. Booking a place in the euro will help them, they imagine. Many of them and their companies wanted the govern- ment of......

Fish And Chips

THE WORST news from the City all yea r , comes from Leadenhall Market, where I find the shutters down at Ashdowns. market itself, with its red and gold Victoue an ironwork and......

City And Suburban

A bid for the Lord Mayor's bank needs a touch of Mansion House polish CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t is something new when the Lord Mayor of London is on the receiving end of a takeover......