Trading Gossip

Aug 20 2008 Liverpool Daily Post

THE brightest brains in business – or they were at the start of the evening – set off from Dale Street boozer Rigby’s, below, last night, in the final round of the Business Crime Direct pub quiz treasure hunt.

* THE brightest brains in business – or they were at the start of the evening – set off from Dale Street boozer Rigby’s, below, last night, in the final round of the Business Crime Direct pub quiz treasure hunt.

For the past eight Tuesdays, teams have been hunting for clues in city pubs, from the commercial district to the Philharmonic, bidding for prizes from meals to bottles of booze.

The Daily Post’s own team has been putting in a valiant effort, despite being forced to quaff ales a-plenty along the way, but, ahead of last night’s round, the league table was still topped by the boys and girls from Malcolm J Ross solicitors. Many nails will doubtless be bitten and sore heads nursed before the final result is announc- ed in the next day or two.

* BUT the treasure hunting doesn't stop there, as the denizens of the city’s business district will discover tomorrow night.

More than 80 chaps and chapesses, led by Peter Mather, are expected to forage for clues at Moorfields station from 6pm as part of MITIE Property Services’ Superlambanana Treasure Hunt in aid of Christies.

Trading Gossip hopes the suits won’t intrude on too many photos of Liverpool’s loveable sculptural herd.

* MEANWHILE, we understand Liverpool’s swanky Malmaison hotel may have to install a mousetrap on its cheeseboard after goings on last week.

Trading Gossip has been told that, at a charity event for Hospitality Action, one corporate type half-inched some sheep’s cheese from the hotel’s posh brasserie.

It seems the sheepish big cheese in question – whose identity couldn’t be prised from organisers for love nor money (not that we offered either) – ended up with a £28 fine to replace the Welsh rare bit of dairy.

* IS THERE no escape? Trading Gossip jetted off to a Spanish resort for its fortnight of summer sun and annual letting-down of hair, only to find on arrival at our hotel a Cheshire man propping up the bar discussing the prospects for sales of the Deeside-made Airbus A380 superjumbo.

We resisted the temptation to put him straight on a few factual inaccuracies.