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The All Party Parliamentary Football Club has organised a special screening of the game in a ministerial conference room for MPs. Clive Betts, the MP for Sheffield Attercliffe who is chairman of the club, said the Commons’ debating chamber might well be deserted for the scheduled second reading of the legislation on the Public Audit Bill for Wales.Claire Brunert of the London Ambulance Service was not expecting a quiet evening. She said a full emergency service was needed after a rise in incidents following Sunday night’s England match. Beer and sausages will be served, and the embassy’s employees will also join the ambassador.Armin Loetscher, owner of the St Moritz Swiss restaurant and club in Soho, London, said the evening would be a patriotic affair “We have Swiss television in the basement We have Swiss flags up, no English flags,” he said. The boss is coming down but I don’t think he will be getting all the drinks in, ” he said.The Swiss ambassador, Bruno Spinner, has invited around 100 embassy associates to a screening of the match at his residence in Baker Street, London.

The firm will operate on a skeleton staff and those who decide to go home early are expected to make up the lost hours at a later date. For those who continue to work, the game will be shown on TV screens in the rest room.Meanwhile, some smaller businesses are shutting for the duration of the game. Joey Jones, a carpet fitter at Styles Carpets in Bow, east London, said his boss was closing early “We’re all going down the pub We’re just shutting a little bit earlier. Manchester City Council is to show the game in the city centre’s Exchange Square on a giant screen surrounded by amphitheatre-style seating. Brent Cross shopping centre in London is also erecting a 100-seat auditorium in the mall.The Swiss watch company, Swatch, has offered the 200 staff at its Hampshire head office the opportunity to leave at 4.30pm to see the match.

For those who are still working at 5pm, hundreds of TVs have been placed in staff canteens across the country so the match can be watched during breaks, and before or after shifts.Many stores will be keeping staff and customers updated by relaying scores over the public address system and at checkouts. In 2000, he sold 51 per cent of his London company to Gucci for £50m.. Employers will be converting conference rooms into makeshift auditoriums for office screenings of England’s match against Switzerland today. Gordon Ramsay Holdings is valued at £2.6m while his restaurants, television work and “brand name” have increased that figure nearly eight-fold.Karen Millen, 42, converted her City & Guilds in fashion from Medway College into a business run from her parent’s house which she built up to an empire of 75 shops bearing her name.

Alexander McQueen, trained in Savile Row before going on to St Martin’s School of Art. Third is Laurence Graff, 66, the East End diamond merchant who took an apprenticeship at Hatton Garden before building a string of shops worldwide, valued at £450m.Jamie Oliver, 29, ranks 18th alongside fellow chef Gordon Ramsay. Oliver took a City and Guilds NVQ in home economics before going on to work at the River Caf?nd now enjoys international celebrity with his television work.Likewise Ramsay, 37, whose embryonic footballing career was cut short by injury and who was left to rely on his catering qualification from Banbury Technical College. The mobile phone tycoon is now worth £1,280m after selling his Singlepoint customer billing operation to Vodafone. At number two is Trevor Hemmings, 69, a former bricklaying apprentice from Leyland who made his fortune in gambling and leisure, and whose wealth is valued at £700m. From the fashion world come designers Alexander McQueen and Karen Millen – also worth £20m.But it is men who made their money in industry who dominate this year’s list, compiled by Philip Beresford, author of the Sunday Times’ Rich List.Of the top 25, only two are women, Ms Millen and Hilary Cropper, 63, a former apprentice at GEC who went on to lead the flotation of information technology group Xansa.Topping the list is John Caudwell, 51, who began as an apprentice at the Michelin factory in Stoke-on-Trent.