With big beasts long disappeared into the jungle, unknowns rapidly rising while early runaway leader gives lacklustre performances, these papers chose to play down a significant event in British politics - the choosing of a possible future prime minister. You could argue that Independent readers do not vote Tory, so are not worried about the leadership fight. With a politically sectarian press in this country, it always amuses me when a newspaper offers "helpful" advice to a party it campaigns to keep out of power.. Chef Jamie Oliver's restaurant Fifteen, set up to help disadvantaged teenagers gain new skills, has made an operating profit for the first time.
The venue, in east London, was established in 2002 and formed the basis of his Channel 4 series Jamie's Kitchen, which showed the trials and tribulations of the trainees as they struggled with their new careers. Figures to be posted tomorrow at Companies House will show pre-tax profits of £197,925, compared with a £166,000 loss in 2003. During its first year, the restaurant had a loss of £600,000 owing to the huge start-up costs. Oliver has set up another branch of the restaurant in Amsterdam and hopes to open further outlets in Cornwall and Melbourne, Australia. The fast-talking chef, now starring in Jamie's Great Italian Escape, said: "This is a result of the amazing hard work of all our staff who work tirelessly to make sure that every customer has a great time when they come to Fifteen.
We anticipate even better results next year and the year after."Future profits will go into the charitable Fifteen Foundation, which oversees the costs of staff training and contributes towards opening further restaurants.. Martin Bashir is about to hit the big time in America. The former Panorama reporter is to co-host ABC News's Nightline programme. Next month, he will take the place of Ted Koppel, who has anchored the programme throughout its 25-year history. Bashir, 42, has been a reporter for ABC since September last year, and finds himself in interesting company. The US boasts a tribe of British journalists who have left their mark on the culture, for good or ill, ever since PG Wodehouse began working in New York in 1904. Since then, Brits have colonised the nation's supermarket tabloids and achieved prominence across its newspapers and magazines. For every familiar name - Tina Brown, former editor of the New Yorker, and her husband Sir Harry Evans, who ran Random House publishers; Glenda Bailey, editor of Harper's Bazaar; political writer Christopher Hitchens - scores more quietly get on with the business of selling news and entertainment to Americans.One title alone tells you much of what you need to know about what we do better than the Americans.
