4 AUGUST 1990, page 19

Towery City

THE National Westminster Tower is the tallest branch bank in the country. The Stock Exchange Tower has seven of its floors filled up with computer equipment. The Lloyd's......

A Tycoon Writes

DEAR Mr Wakeham: I write to confirm I offer, subject to survey and contract, to buy your house for £500,000. This offer is in itself of value to you. It is bound to get into the......

City And Suburban

Bertie could tell you — Aunt Agatha doesn't want a nanny CHRISTOPHER FILDES B ertie Wooster's Aunt Agatha could look after herself. She wore barbed wire next to the skin, and......

The Walters Critique

HALF WAY through his much-puffed book Sir Alan Walters asks himself: 'Is the Walters Critique now accepted and re- spected?' Those who cannot guess his answer and want to know......

Courting Disaster

MY favourite instance of the perils of protection comes from the Investors Chronicle, which used to be printed on Wednesday but distributed on Friday, so that the Prudettial in......