21 SEPTEMBER 1991, page 25

City And Suburban

Poll-struck City gets a lick and a promise and my fiver gets the fever CHRISTOPHER FILDES E lection fever rages in the City, and making a market in polling dates is the hottest......

Uncrossed Purposes

IF YOU find yourself spending the night in your local jail, or trying to collect your ,council's tax, or riding shotgun in a squad ;car, then you will have been caught up by the......

Shock Therapy

SOMEONE looking remarkably like the man from the Pru has dumped 22 million shares in Royal Insurance. I now hope to see the Royal dump its shares in the Prudential. These......

Hanson On Form

THE TWO noble bidders at Hanson have excelled themselves. Bidding for Beazer, they pick up a company at its last gasp under the burden of debt, and priced accordingly. It is......

K.c.o.b.e.

I AM delighted to learn that the City's senior banker has been honoured for his services. He is not, as you might think, some aging Baring or supernumerary Barc- lay. Kung Chao......