Column Eight: Barclays battle gets moving
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Your support makes all the difference.The Barclays battle, part three . . . Brian Jones is the disgruntled account-holder and businessman from Bristol, whose previous attacks on Sir John Quinton have included a stink-bomb campaign on the bank's branches and a critical newspaper advertisement.
Yesterday's tactic apparently involved serving an enormous summons on Sir John, measuring eight feet by sixteen. The claim, for pounds 75, is for the amount of time Mr Jones says he had to spend away from his business dealing with an error made by Barclays in handling his account.
A caller describes to us what can only have been a sighting of Mr Jones, bowling along the M4 at junction 12, Swindon, heading for Barclays' head office in London.
Behind his BMW, the pin- striped driver towed a trailer with 'I'm A Barclays Victim' emblazoned across the back. . .
Despair could be in store for those who treat the Corney & Barrow restaurant in Moorgate, London, as their local canteen. Halifax Building Society, which is not renowned for its quality lunches, is said to have bought the site for about pounds 500,000 and may redevelop it.
Christopher Swinson, ousted from his senior partnership at BDO Binder Hamlyn in June following an internal coup, has found something else to occupy some of his time. Renowned as a man who stands out in a sea of grey suits, he is expected to jump on board one of the big accountancy firms although he's keeping mum on that.
For the moment, however, he's doing very nicely thank you out of expert witness work and has just been drafted on to the influential Financial Reporting Review Panel, which earlier this week successfully rapped Trafalgar House.
Birmingham Mint, which belongs to the industrial group IMI Industries, has been churning out coins all year for what the chairman, Gary Allen, calls 'emerging countries': Lithuania and Ukraine for example.
This week its customers were the slightly more developed countries belonging to the European Community after the Mint was commissioned by Birmingham City Council to make the 12 solid silver coins that John Major presented to the leaders of the 12 nations at the end of the Birmingham Summit.
Gold ones, at pounds 1,000 a throw, would presumably have looked a bit flash in mid-recession.
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