We鈥檙e far too modest to mention our IBP magazine of the year award last week, ahem, but of course much of our success is thanks to the everyday, sometimes eccentric contributions of building folk - talking of which 鈥�
A life on the ocean waves
The interview at 星空传媒 Live with Lendlease boss Neil Martin last week () took me back to the days when its predecessor Bovis was part of the P&O shipping empire. P&O鈥檚 results were always a highlight for one of my then cub reporters, who would trundle off to the firm鈥檚 opulent offices on Pall Mall to listen to P&O鈥檚 executive chairman Lord Sterling move seamlessly from how luxury cruises in the West Indies were doing to how things were going at the rather less glamorous Bluewater shopping centre, which it was then building. It always struck my hack that Lord Sterling was rather more comfortable talking about boats than he was about muddy boots. Dry land versus choppy waters, I鈥檓 tempted to say.
Barrow boy makes good
A former security guard at an Argos store in north London, who went on to become a property developer, has now been elected as president of the Gambia. Adama Barrow returned to the Gambia in 2006 to set up Majum Real Estate, a property company managing private real