workinproperty (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Babcock International,the Defence and energy support services firm, has completed the acquisition of the commercial arm of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) for around £50 million. UKAEA Limited, which represents a major slice of the country's nuclear expertise, oversees nuclear clean-up work at three sites in the UK and offers consultancy services in international markets. It employs around...
Dave Strickson (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Boris Johnson executive sacked for using 'N-word' slur at meeting with colleagues One of Boris Johnson's most senior directors has been sacked after he allegedly used the 'N word' at a meeting with colleagues. Nick Hoare, an interim director at the London Development Association, was dismissed hours after three staff member filed official complaints. One of the LDA's key responsibilities is to tackle...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Interim director of contracts Nick Hoare fired after allegedly using phrase including word 'nigger' A senior officer has been sacked from Boris Johnson's economic body the London Development Agency, after allegedly using a racist term in a conversation with colleagues. Sources close to the LDA said that its chief executive, Sir Peter Rogers, sacked the interim director of contracts, Nick Hoare, after...
FxDomains.net (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
The system failed for a Kelowna web hosting company which was declared bankrupt and stripped of its assets in a recent Supreme Court decision. Rackster Hosting was declared bankrupt by Supreme Court Justice Peter Rogers in a verdict issued in Vernon ...
News-Insurances (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
Kiln, the international insurance and reinsurance underwriting group, has today launched a new specialist team to underwrite international logistics risks. The team will be part of the marine & special risks division of Kiln Syndicate 510 and will specialise in providing cover for clients in the freight and transport industry, and for ports and terminal [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
• VisitLondon set to lose £1.4m • £160m hole in Olympic legacy budget The promotion of London abroad will be among projects facing budget cuts after "breathtaking incompetence" left a £160m hole in the mayor's Olympic legacy budget. A KPMG investigation that last week revealed a £159.8m shortfall in the mayor's finances itself cost more than £1m, it...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
London assembly to quiz LDA management over shortfall caused by higher-than-expected cost of acquiring land for the 2012 Olympics The head of the Boris Johnson's funding agency will today face questions over the impact of an expected £160m shortfall on projects for London. Sir Peter Rogers, chief executive of the London Development Agency, and Harvey McGrath, the LDA's chairman, will give evidence...
Bearwatch (Free subscription) | 20/08/2009
I've just watched Daniel Hannan's address to Americans on the dangers of a nationalised healthcare system. I, too, want America to carry on holding up the torch of freedom and democracy that is being doused here in the UK, so that one day we'll be able to re-light ours from theirs. But it seems to me that if you want private solutions for problems which all have (or will have), but not all can afford,...
What a Carry On News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Peter Rogers charity donation The Daily Mail has a very unflattering article about Peter Rogers leaving £3.5 million to The Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund, a charity that helps film workers who have fallen on hard times. He had no children with producer wife Betty Box, who died in 1999, and made the legacy to the Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund. David Hore, the charity’s...
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
TO SOME Peter Rogers will for ever be a legend. As the producer of the entire Carry On oeuvre he was responsible for creating the cinematic equivalent of the saucy seaside postcard, bringing out 31 films full of innuendo, bosom-heaving naughtiness and the odd brilliant line: -"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" But there is another reason why he might be considered legendary...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 14/07/2009
Funds of between £60m and £100m found missing during routine check A multimillion-pound black hole in the London Development Agency's economic and business unit is to be investigated today by members of the London assembly. Two senior officers from the agency are among the panel due to give evidence this afternoon to the assembly's budget monitoring committee after it emerged last month...
Plaid Wrecsam (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
Please see Allowances paid to members of the North Wales Police Authority. The different bands relate to distance and travelling time to authority meetings at Colwyn Bay, the close a member lives the less the allowance etc. The Allowance paid to Councillors is on top of the allowances paid to them by their respective Local Authorities. Again I make no judgement the information is provided in the interests...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13/06/2009
Recognition given for services to the public and voluntary sectors Veteran disability rights activist and chair of the government's commission for carers, Philippa Russell , has been made a dame in the Queen's birthday honours, heading a clutch of figures recognised for services to the public and voluntary sectors. One of the architects of NHS foundation hospitals, Paul Corrigan is made a CBE. Corrigan,...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 26/05/2009
Late British film producer PETER ROGERS left a substantial part of his fortune to The Cinema & Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF).The man behind the Carry On films died...
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