The electric champagne acid test

Partisan cheering for award nominees and sponsors spontaneously broke out at the Royal Albert Hall about halfway through the eleventh annual Investor Relations Magazine UK Awards. The spirit of celebration had been there all evening; it just took a while for the cheerleaders to emerge from their stunned amazement at the laser, music and booming pyrotechnics show that opened the ceremony. By any measure, this year's UK Awards were the biggest, best and certainly loudest ever. In typically brash New