Even though Charan Gill is no longer the owner of the famous chain – Harlequin Restaurant Group – the title of curry king of Glasgow’ still sticks to him. Harlequin Restaurants had emerged as Europe’s biggest curry empire – with an annual turnover of £12 million and comprising 16 restaurants – when Mr Gill sold [...]
A couple from Devon are hoping to beat the property slump by raffling off their home. Brian and Wendy Wilshaw are selling the tickets for £25, but the winner could become the new owner of a £1m estate. The 11-acre estate at Morchard Bishop, near Crediton, includes a five-bedroom house, fishing lake and four [...]
A niche tender and lead notification service has just launched in the UK. TelcoTenders.co.uk provides daily leads via email of any telecommunication tender or lead for an annual fee of £129.99 (£99.99 special offer for Sept 08). Its finally good to see a niche tender notification service focusing on a particular sector. The UK market [...]
About once a month I go to the movies with a mate of mine, a kind of very tame boys’ night out. Anyway, while we were having a beer after the movie he mentioned to me that he had run into a women who owns a couple of hairdressing salons in Britain. Apparently she is [...]
Paul Smith, the man behind Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, has moved into commercial radio, buying south coast station Original 106FM. Smith, who did much to help revive the fortunes of ITV in the late 1990s as the boss of Millionaire producer Celador, has bought Original 106FM from Canadian media giant Canwest. The [...]
Gordon Brown is to launch the biggest revolution in the way Britons drive since the development of the internal combustion engine. He will meet manufacturers this week to try to persuade them to mass-produce electric cars, and is considering a remarkable plan to sell the cars cheap, together with their fuel, that is modelled [...]
A TAXI and tanning tycoon is building Scotland’s most expensive house – a £9million palace overlooking Gleneagles’ famous Queen’s golf course. Glasgow Private Hire boss Stevie Malcolm’s incredible home is being built around a £1million aquarium which rises three storeys through the centre of the property. The 44-year-old tycoon paid £1.3million for the plot, one [...]
INTRODUCING “El Fontanero” – Paul ‘The Plumber’ Davidson’s latest reincarnation after buying football club Real Mallorca. His new moniker comes courtesy of fans of the Spanish La Liga team, which cost the colourful Macclesfield inventor more than £50million in a deal sealed on Monday. And Paul, 53 – who left Silk Town for Mediterranean shores [...]
More than 30 graduates from Yorkshire and Humberside have been selected to attend a programme to help boost the number of successful female entrepreneurs in the UK. The Flying Start Programme, designed to help women launch a successful business, kicked off yesterday with a three-day residential course in Sheffield. The programme saw more than [...]
Simone Mann has been working side-by-side with her brother since they founded Commercial Group 18 years ago and she says she wouldn’t be anywhere else. “We get on extremely well and also balance each other well,” Mann says. “We have very definite strengths and weaknesses and we’ve learnt from each other. We also have [...]