25 MAY 1991, Page 23

Canary needs a mate

THE brakes are on at Canary Wharf, where no new tenant has signed up since last July. Mark you, if all the tenants whose imminent arrival has been forecast by the City press's canary-fanciers had actually turned up — from Barclays Bank via Saatchi & Saatchi to the new financial futures exchange, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the De- partment of the Environment and (most recently) Lintas and D'Arcy Masius Ben- ton & Bowler — they would need an extension. I assume that this wishful think- ing stems from Canary Wharf's public relations advisers, who are still based in Mayfair and Fleet Street. They may now have to set an example.