Landscape+Urbanism (Free subscription) | 27/11/2009
As a follow-up to the previous post , the student award finalists were announced as well, including a few of the notables images from some of the entries. “R_Ignite” was designed by four graduate students of the Manchester School of Architecture – Peter Millar, Jamie Potter, Andy Wilde and Stuart Wheeler. This proposal revitalizes port cities and greens the shipwrecking industry through...
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
SCOTS businessman and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter was yesterday given an honorary degree from Edinburgh University.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Tycoon Sir Tom Hunter is to receive an honorary degree from Edinburgh University in recognition of his philanthropy.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
RETAIL tycoon Sir Tom Hunter was today set to receive an honorary degree from Edinburgh University.
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
RETAIL tycoon Sir Tom Hunter was today set to receive an honorary degree from Edinburgh University.
Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Wheeler speaks up for UKIPSaturday, 21st November 2009A major donor to the UK Independence Party has hit out at the Electoral Commission over its decision to push UKIP for the return of a £360,000 donation while allowing the Lib Dems to keep £2.4 million given to them by a criminal now on the run.Former Tory donor and spread betting millionaire Stuart Wheeler, who donated £100,000...
UKIP (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
A major donor to the UK Independence Party has hit out at the Electoral Commission over its decision to push UKIP for the return of a £360,000 donation while allowing the Lib Dems to keep £2.4 million given to them by a criminal now on the run. Former Tory donor and spread betting millionaire Stuart Wheeler, who donated £100,000 to UKIP before the European elections said today: "I...
Tory Outcast (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
An interesting interview with Cameron in the Evening Standard today. You can read the whole thing here but if you are, like me, getting fed up of reading interviewers describing him as "surprisingly candid", "at ease with himself" or "refreshingly normal and open" then here are a few points of intrigue: "I've always thought that the fear of getting things wrong inspires...
Just Gambling (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE businessman has criticised tycoons who leave the UK to save tax, declaring it “mad” to put money before country.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
LONDON.- The Young Masters Art Prize, sponsored by AXA Insurance, will be awarded to one of sixteen international artists who have been chosen to exhibit work at the Young Masters exhibition, which opened at The Old Truman Brewery on 14 October 2009. The winner of the Young Masters Art Prize will be announced at 7:30pm at The Old Truman Brewery on Tuesday 3 November, and the prize will be continued...
Stephen's Linlithgow Journal (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
While it may retain some high profile businessmen like Sir Tom Hunter and Sir George Mathewson the SNP are losing the overall support of Scottish Business says CBI Scotland leader Iain McMillan. Talking to the Scotsman he cites episodes such as Diageo being "bullied" over its restructuring plans, the cancellation of the Glasgow airport rail link (GARL) without consultation, the blocking of...
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
FLYING Brands, the home shopping group part-owned by Scots entrepreneur Sir Tom Hunter, is to shift its flower packing and dispatch operations from Jersey to the UK mainland,
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
from Dave Stubbs of Habs Inside/Out, The great Jean Béliveau has been celebrated in photo, film, documentaries, books and magazines. His likeness has appeared on cereal boxes, bottlecaps, keychains and myriad other collectibles. He’s been immortalized in sculptures made of bronze, wood and ice. But this, Le Gros Bill says, is the first time he’s been made of corn. Chip and Tom Hunter,...
Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
A hard rain is currently falling over London, like a Wagnerian prelude to autumn. 'As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus etc etc.' I'm posting this because it cheered me up on this dreary day: David Bowie's version of Simon & Garfunkel's America, a perennial in my Top Ten favourite songs,...
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