Dman, from May 1, 1999 Sunday Express "briefs." Go down to the Firecrest story. Jeff
01 May - 02 May 1999
Briefs (Sunday Express)
Briefs
Marks and Spencer is to break with a 70-year old tradition and hold its results meeting close to the City for the first time. The May meeting will be in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
BSkyB is expected to announce some 450,000 digital subscribers this week along with its Q3 figures, although analysts will be scrutinising the 'churn' figures post-Christmas.
AEA Technology is developing batteries to enable a European Space Agency spacecraft, which launches in 2003, to land on a comet for the first time.
The next meeting of the G7 counties will be held in a temporary structure in Cologne similar to the shape of the Millennium Dome.
A consortium including Talk Radio, Virgin Radio and Clear Channel is bidding for London's new digital broadcasting licence, although it faces competition from a joint approach from Capital Radio and Emap along with a Chrysalis Radio/Border TV bid.
Festival Parks Europe is a new venture to develop US-style factory outlets and entertainment centres on the continent, put together by entrepreneur Peter Thomas and TBI founder Paul Bailey.
Investors in Firecrest, the first company to be ejected from AIM, could finally see some return as the reinvented company called X-Stream, which offers free internet access, is planning a Nasdaq listing later this year.
Ryanair is launching a new low-cost service between Derry and London Stansted.
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