About 90 per cent of Singlepoint's customers use Vodafone's network.It is unclear why Mr Caudwell is interested in selling the business. Vodafone is in talks with John Caudwell, the mobile phone entrepreneur, about buying The Caudwell Group's customer database in a deal which could be worth as much as £400m. The business is called Singlepoint and has 1.4 million customers derived from Mr Caudwell's Phones 4U chain.Vodafone declined to comment as did Mr Caudwell. Mr Gordon is attempting to rally critics of Derek Higgs' review of UK boardrooms in an attempt to prevent his proposals from being included in the Combined Code, the City's rulebook on corporate governance.His campaign comes as the property veteran faces a stormy annual general meeting on Wednesday, at which the National Association of Pension Funds has called on investors not to support his re-election.Mr Gordon decided to send the letters after failing to persuade Mr Higgs at a meeting last week that his proposals could have adverse consequences.The 73-year-old is understood to have come away from the meeting, which he requested, even more frustrated with Mr Higgs, who was commissioned by the Government last year to carry out a thorough review of boardroom practices. Donald Gordon, the outspoken chairman of the property group Liberty International, has written to every chairman in the FTSE 100 warning that the adoption of the Higgs review on corporate governance could have an adverse impact on the way companies are run. "In addition we continue to seek further offers from other potentially interested parties."The company rushed out the statement after Celltech, which has tabled its own £101m cash offer for OGS, bought 10.55 per cent of its shares on Friday.

"I think the OFT just found the thing so confusing that they decided they would just leave it to the Competition Commission to resolve," one analyst said.Separately, Safeway's chief executive, Carlo Criado-Perez, has admitted that it is struggling to retain the support of its suppliers as the bid battle rages on.. Britain's fifth mobile phone operator, 3, is expected to start selling its next-generation mobile handsets in about 20 Superdrug stores as soon as next month. The new service, which launched three weeks ago in the UK, has been on sale in its three stores in London's Oxford Street and High Street Kensington and in Birmingham as well as in specialist phone retailers.So far, the company has sold around 10,000 of the mobile phones, which cost between £399 and £449 each, and has recently started to deliver them to customers.3 is spending tens of millions of pounds advertising and marketing its third-generation service this year. He wants " a war that will lead to the downfall of America".. The Americans had hoped that the access to the front from its "embedded" journalists, and the sight of cruise missiles slamming into Baghdad but killing few civilians, would win Muslim hearts.But Mr Mustapha resents the mushroom clouds above Baghdad and the Iraqis injured by the bombing runs These are fast-hardening Muslim hearts, he says. "Allah's Shock and Awe – Get Ready to Face it Bush," said one.The spread of cable television (it costs the equivalent of £3 a month in Lahore) and the access to live footage from the battle front is making a profound impact on public opinion. Some people had climbed trees to hear speakers excoriating Messrs Bush and Blair Others sat on the rooftops.

One hotel in Lahore had a cricket bat as tall as a house in its lobby, and a restaurant hung its walls with pads.The war spoilt everything. It was Pakistan Day, when the army parades its missiles through the capital before cheering crowds and the country celebrates its foundation as a Muslim state. And it was World Cup Final day, the climax of a cricket contest followed ball-by-ball with fervour in South Asia for weeks Pakistanis had been preparing for this with excitement. Yet there is little trace of traditional Chinese architecture visible anywhere. The declared goal is to "integrate the 2008 Olympics with Chinese Culture and Chinese spiritual civilisation". As the theme of the piece, Olympic Park will exert a tremendous influence."Chinese propaganda also claims the north-south axis symbolises the linking of the old and new: the Forbidden City and the Olympics. Like Hitler's 1936 Olympics, the games are intended to impress upon the world that a new and powerful China has emerged. Like many of those fascinated by the unique building opportunities, he is not troubled by the association with China Central Television, which constantly runs hate campaigns against party "enemies" "It's a blank sheet of paper.

With a translucent glass-and-titanium dome, Beijingers are calling it, the "alien's egg", or, less imaginatively, the "giant turd". Hitler hated the modern Bauhaus architecture for which Berlin was once famous and wanted to evoke the imperial past, with wide Roman boulevards and neo-classical buildings dominated by a grand 250ft-high triumphal arc Mr Jiang prefers the modern, avant-garde and foreign. Taunting the allies, he asked: "Have you found what the devil that besets your soul promised you in Iraq?" To the people of Iraq's cities of Basra, Baghdad, Mosul and others, he warned that the enemy will intensify their raids as they suffer casualties on the ground "Be patient God's victory is coming.. Be tolerant," he added. Reports from journalists on the ground, however, suggested there were still pockets of resistance as well as deep resentment, concealed by initial welcoming smiles.The war effort was further frustrated by "friendly fire" accidents, which were also the bane of the Gulf War in 1991.