| Giles Coren at the Chiltern Firehouse
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 'It is like Le Caprice in its pomp or the Ivy before they let down the drawbridge to coach parties' There is only one restaurant in London at the moment: the Chiltern Firehouse in Marylebone. But I'm not going to review it because I don't think I can claim yet to have had a "normal" experience there, and I am not sure I ever will, or want to. It is the brainchild (and more importantly, ...
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| Rangers try to lower expectations after landing plum draw
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 Inside Ibrox Ally McCoist may have the chance to knock Dave King and the Rangers board off the back pages for the first time in weeks if his Rangers side dispose of lowly Albion Rovers and land what would be a fascinating draw against a Scottish Premiership team in the William Hill Scottish Cup semi-finals. But he will make the front and back pages if Rangers don't. Rangers could not have ...
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| Big Oil's new strategy: If you can't build a new pipeline, just overload the old one
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 Yesterday, Canadian pipeline behemoth Enbridge won government approval for its plans for 9B, one of the most contentious pipes in pipe business. While it doesn't get much press, 9B is important because it's part of a hot, new trend in trans-national pipe dreams: Skirting environmental review, and public scrutiny, by pumping dirty crude through existing pipelines rather than building new ones. Enbridge wants to use 9B to carry up to 300,000 barrels of tar-sands oil per day to Quebec for refining and export. And it is determined to not repeat the mistakes of TransCanada, the company behind the much-maligned (and very publicly held-up) Keystone XL pipeline. Thus the tactic of reusing old lines, a game that it has already played with several other pipes. One of those pipes was 6B, which dumped a million gallons plus of freshly harvested tar-sands crude into Michigan's water supply in 2010. Another is Line 5, whose capacity was expanded 10 percent recently, despite the pipeline's being over 60 years old, and ...
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