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Martin Wainwright: No wonder the north of England has been recognised as a bastion of fine dining. We don't need to be metropolitan to thrive
At the Treasury it has already been dubbed "the balti bailout". At 9.30pm on Tuesday, Alistair Darling and about 30 of his officials took a few precious minutes off from their marathon negotiations with bankers for a takeaway curry from Gandhi's Indian restaurant in Kennington, south London. The "customer feedback" section of its website includes commendations from Gordon Brown, Jack Straw, ...
It is being called the Balti Bailout. It would have been the Poppadom Pact except there were no wafers in the takeaway curry ordered late on Tuesday night to the Chancellor's office while Treasury officials and leading British bankers worked out the detail of yesterday's £500bn rescue package.
In Thursday's article, "The great balti bailout", incorrectly we wrote that Nick Macpherson, the permanent secretary to the Treasury, gave £12,700 to Gordon Brown's Labour leadership campaign. In fact it was Paul Myners, the former Marks & Spencer chairman and ex-director of GLG, who made this donation.
It has been dubbed the “Balti bail out” . But I can reveal that the biggest deal in British financial history was in fact… a “Tandoori Turn Around”. I have it on the very best authority that when Alistair Darling and his team of Treasury ministers, civil servants and top bankers sent out for a take-away curry during their late night Treasury talks on Monday, the Chancellor ordered not balti, but ...
BALTIMORE -- Laura Lippman had her share of good fortune as she made the transition from frustrated newspaper reporter to part-time crime novelist to criti cally acclaimed best-selling author. But her bold career move didn't happen by chance.
It was when the takeaway curry arrived at the Treasury at 10pm Tuesday night that Britain's leading bankers first realised it was going to be a very long night.
The mammoth £500billion bail-out of Britain’s banks was sealed over a takeaway curry, it was revealed last night.
In yesterday's article, 'The great balti bailout', incorrectly we wrote that Nick Macpherson, the permanent secretary to the Treasur y, gave £12,700 to Mr Brown's labour leadership campaign. In fact it was Paul Myners, the former Marks and Spencer chairman and ex-director of GLG, who made this donation.
He is the TV face of the credit crunch whose dramatic scoop last week wiped millions off the price of bank shares.
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