2 MAY 1987, page 18

City And Suburban

Time for the scourge of City cartels to take on the oligarchs CHRISTOPHER FILDES I t is time for Sir Gordon Borrie, Director-General of Fair Trading and scourge of City......

Hitting The Roof

ODD: we spend more on keeping ourselves housed than on 'anything else, but when the cost of houses goes up, we do not count that as inflation. If we did, we should see inflation......

Rolls Gets A Booster

THE Government announced its price for Rolls-Royce first thing on Tuesday morn- ing. At lunchtime the Bank of England set off a cut in the banks' base rates. By evening a......

Law And Order

GEORGE Law, Morgan Grenfell's 'com- pliance officer' (the man who sees to it that the rules are kept) has survived his bank's embarrassments and departures — with advantage.......

Sir Kit's Transfusion

THE road to success in the Midland Bank was long thought to be Bold Street, Liver- pool. Determined clerks from such north- ern branches would rise to be chief general manager,......