Hot seat

April 1, 2002
<b><b>Into the Hot Seat this month goes </b><br><b> &amp;‘Appy &amp;‘Ammer Stephen Stone, managing director of Crest Nicholson Residential, who regrets not trying harder at footie under Harry Redknapp but makes up for it now with skiing and scuba diving</b></b><br><b><b>Family?</b></b><br> Four beautiful women (including three daughters of course)<p></p><p><b><b>First job ever? </b></b><br> At the tender age of 16, I sold programmes at West Ham as this guaranteed free entry into the match and provided me with sufficient beer money for afterwards </p><p><b><b>First job in the industry? </b></b><br> After graduating from North London Poly in 1979 with a Degree and Honours Diploma in Architecture, I joined a company of architects and surveyors based in Essex. I was encouraged to go there by my old Deputy Head Master (it turned out he was married to the company secretary). I couldn&amp;’t decide which side of the business I wanted to specialise in but was wooed by architecture as I was offered the opportunity to work on an office complex just outside Paris (it turned out I spent most of my time doing the photocopying at the office)</p><p><b><b>Your big prediction? </b></b><br> * Stephen Byers will resign (don&amp;’t need a crystal ball for that) </p><p> * There …

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