20 questions with actress Kellie Shirley, best known as Carly Wicks from ‘Eastenders’
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Really good lyrics.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
If you cry because you’ve lost the sun, your tears won’t let you see the stars.
My Travel tycoon puts Jersey mansion on the market for £19 million
David Crossland is a fine example of a “Northern lad done good”. Starting out in the 1970s he turned two small travel agencies into a package tour empire and now with the sale of his Jersey mansion, one can see how truly successful this businessman’s career has been. (more…)
20 questions with winemaker Carlo Mondavi
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
The continued belief that we can make wine that sits along side the finest in the world. The belief that we can strive for excellence and no matter how far we have come, the truth is that we have really just begun.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
Making good wine is a skill, fine wine is an art.
The wife of the biggest Ponzi schemer in history claims she had no knowledge of what her husband – whom she’s since disowned but not divorced – did as chairman of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (more…)
This mysterious sort has a knowledge of horse racing that is second to none. His tips to readers of The Steeple Times bring home the bacon and allegedly, some say, The Tout is supposedly rather partial to a glass of Sir Anthony and Lady Bamford’s Château Léoube Rosé de Léoube when a win comes in.
20 questions with flautist Ana de la Vega
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore, non feci mai male ad anima viva – which for non-Puccini buffs means: “I lived for my art, I lived for love, I never did harm to a living soul”.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
“I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom”. (more…)
20 questions with restaurateur Max Sali of Pimlico Road’s Tinello
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
It’s always been the dream of my brother and I to have a restaurant. Being understanding of customers is our guiding force.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
My father said I should never talk about football, women and politics. They are taken rather personally.
20 questions with New York based fashion entrepreneur Byron Bradshaw
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
I’d rather be dead than boring.
20 questions with car dealer and Rolls-Royce specialist Richard Biddulph
The Steeple Times shares “wit and wisdom”. What’s your guiding force?
Service, service, service and more service.
“Don’t get even, get medieval” is, in our humble opinion, a great motto. What’s yours?
“Life is not a dress rehearsal” is one choice and my second is: “You never heard a man on his deathbed saying: ‘Gee, I wish I had spent more time at the office’”.
WPP backed CHI&Partners acquires stake in Halpern
The world of public relations can be fickle and few who work in it command the level of respect that Jenny Halpern Prince has built up since she founded Halpern on her kitchen table in 1992. Today, in an email newsletter, it was announced that a stake in her agency had been acquired by CHI&Partners, a company backed by Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP. (more…)