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Jonathan Prynn, Consumer Business Editor

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Prius models to be recalled in new Toyota alert over brakes

Toyota dealers in Britain are braced for a second consumer alert in less than a week with thousands of cars of the latest Prius model expected to be recalled tomorrow

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Waitrose sales soar in Marks & Spencer 'posh food' fight

Waitrose delivered another crushing blow to Marks & Spencer in the battle of the “posh food stores” by revealing that its sales soared by 15 per cent in the second half of last year

Insolvency 'more common than divorce'

The struggle to pay off debts in the recession has made “financial breakdown” more common than divorce for the first time, official figures revealed today.

Thousands of dangerous Toyota cars ‘will take months to be fixed’

Repairs to tens of thousands of potentially dangerous Toyota cars are likely to take months to complete

Celebrating Carnaby Street cool

It's 50 years since one Soho side-street started to take off as London's hippest shopping destination. Jonathan Prynn joins the celebration

Energy crisis may add £500 on to family bills, warns Ofgem

Britain is sleep-walking into an energy crisis that threatens Seventies-style black-outs and huge increases in bills, a report warns

Pension deficit of London’s government passes £10bn

The pension black hole of London’s government has risen by a third to top £10 billion, a study finds

Family-unfriendly law firms ‘failing to promote women’

Women make up fewer than one in six partners at the City’s leading law companies, a study reveals

Pay rise for nannies as mothers cut short their maternity leave

Nannies in demand in London because so many professional women are cutting short their maternity leave in the downturn

Big rise in people earning more than £1m a year

Number of people in Britain earning more than £1 million a year reaches a record 14,000

South African airlines in World Cup price-fixing probe

Six South African airlines due to fly thousands of England supporters to World Cup matches are being investigated for alleged price-fixing plot

Banks branded with riskier rating in huge blow to City

The global standing of the City is dealt a devastating blow as a leading analyst claims Britain’s battered banking system can no longer be ranked among the world’s most stable

Simon Cowell's waistband is a sign of the times

They say you can tell the state of the economy from the length of a woman’s hemline. Equally telling is the height of a man’s trouser waistband, according to a new study

Harriet Harman: I dropped my cut-glass accent for Labour

Labour Party deputy leader Harriet Harman admitted she has made her accent less posh because 'I sounded like Lady Diana'

You don’t have to be nasty, says pub chef who beat Gordon Ramsay to a Michelin star

27-year-old chef who beat Gordon Ramsay and Angela Hartnett to London’s first gastropub Michelin star tells how he wanted to leave cooking after only two weeks in a kitchen

‘Chelsea haggis’ is truffles and foie gras

They may call it haggis but it’s unlikely to go down too well in Auchtermuchty. A Chelsea brasserie has dreamed up a new recipe for the Scottish offal classic that its chef believes will be more acceptable to a west London palate

Bloomsbury regroups for a bright new future

For centuries the Bloomsbury area has been London’s 'Cinderella centre'. Now there is a multi-billion-pound vision for its renaissance

Pay freeze for millions but public sector wages rise four per cent

Pay-freeze Britain has become a harsh reality for millions of workers this winter, as companies refuse to award pay rises to staff in struggle to survive recession

Millions hit by private-sector pay freeze

Pay-freeze Britain has become a harsh reality for millions of workers this winter, official figures reveal today

Sweet memories of Cadbury's advertising slogans

They are the slogans and jingles that have been the soundtrack to all our yesterdays

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