After a year on the market without a nibble of interest from office tenants, 4 St James’s Square has just been sold to a wealthy American for conversion to a family house the size of a small hotel.’The age of the big house is back again,’ says Peter Wetherell of estate agent Wetherell & Co, [...]

The big question is if, however.Enterprise shares have fallen so precipitously since the bid began that a full-scale underwritten cash alternative offer has all but been ruled out. Maybe then she will see the immorality of accepting money from an industry whose product kills.Yours faithfully,JOHN MOXHAMChairmanDoctors for Tobacco LawKings College HospitalLondon, SE5. Tell them that [...]

We’re thrilled to bits, but it’s only one step,’ said Ms Baker, who is on a private visit to Britain.On Thursday there will be a hearing before the Hong Kong Attorney General, the colony’s most senior government lawyer.Amnesty International has said both women would be at ’serious risk’ of being jailed if sent back to [...]

The Zion Baptist chapel, of which Mrs Payne’s husband had been superintendent, is up for sale So is the undertaker’s. Best was Steve of The River (1937), a burlesque of Edgar Wallace’s recent film, Sanders of the River.When the Sunday Express dropped Steve in 1939 Davies, who had wisely retained the copyright, took the strip [...]

A bell rang to warn that a man with multiple chest wounds was on his way: ‘Clear the ramp]’The staff had been doubled for the night to 14 nurses, five doctors and three cleaners Every one of them was working flat out. The sharp overnight fall in Hong Kong as relations between the colony and [...]

The 200 drawings at the British
Museum give a glimpse of aristocratic taste that was both magnificent and discriminating.He could have commissioned painted ceilings and golden ballrooms but this duke relished art that was kept in his library. Within 10 years people won’t know anything about cooking except putting a chilled dish into the microwave. Other [...]