6 JULY 1985, page 20

Financial Health

BREAKFAST at the Savoy with Ian Mills. 'Is it true,' I ask him, 'that you are the largest employer of labour in Europe?' 'No,' he says: 'that's the Red Army. We're second.' This......

City And Suburban

Go ahead and shoot the chairman: that's what he's for CHRISTOPHER FILDES P oor Peter Laister. It is bad enough to be shot on your own quarterdeck at Thorn EMI, but to find that......

Investors' Masterclass

WHERE there's a tip there's a tap, so what do you get where there are 21 tips? You get an endowment. The point was not wasted on the City audience which filled Haber- dashers'......

Encore! Encore!

MOZART at the Mansion House, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band in Paternoster Square — the City of London will resound, this next fortnight, with the music of its own Festival. Great......