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Jonathan Prynn, Consumer Business Editor

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City still hasn't grasped the nettle

So we will have to wait until next month to find out if Bob Diamond got £3 million, £1 million - or nothing - for his 2011 bonus

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Actress's new role - as a cook for the homeless

A London actress has started up her own regular food deliveries to the homeless, claiming major charities turned down her offer of help.

There's no substitute for threatened eel and pie shop, says Who star Pete

Rock star Pete Townshend has joined the campaign to save one of west London's last surviving traditional pie and mash shops from demolition

Murdoch bill for scandal is £120 million and rising

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire has admitted that the phone hacking scandal has cost it more than £120 million and the bill is set to spiral far higher

Westminster leader poll 'insults democracy'

The election of a new Westminster council leader has been condemned as "an insult to democracy" because all but one of the voters supported West End parking charges

Westminster to help legal costs of parking rebel

Westminster council has offered to pay opponents of its abandoned West End "nightlife tax" half the £72,000 legal costs of their challenge to the policy

Ramsay picks up £2m bill to settle bitter dispute with father-in-law

Gordon Ramsey today ended a bitter dispute with his father-in-law

Big rise in water bills 'to wipe out energy savings'

London water bills are set to rise by an inflation beating 6.7 per cent this year to reach an average of £339

Mayfair pushes to have its own parish council

Community leaders in Mayfair want it to become the first area of central London to have its own parish council in almost half a century

Traders despair as new version of 'nightlife tax' hits town centre

A London council has been attacked for "killing" its town centre by introducing Sunday parking charges

UK braced for first double dip since the Seventies

Britain is heading for its first 'double dip' recession since the mid-Seventies after the ailing economy slumped again at the end of last year

Work on Pinnacle halts again as developers struggle for tenants

Work on the City's tallest tower has halted for a second time because of a lack of tenants for building

Parking charge crusader bids to lead council

The sole Tory Westminster councillor to publicly criticise the authority's "nightlife tax" plans for West End parking charges is to stand for leader

Jobless total hits a 17-year high as Britain slides into recession

The jobless total has soared by 118,000 to a 17-year high, raising fresh fears that the economy is already back in recession

Goldman Sachs staff get average of £239,000 as profits dip

Goldman Sachs triggered a new row over bonuses today when it revealed that it paid its staff an average of £239,000 last year despite a collapse in profits.

Clinton's billionaire backer buys Soho House in £250million deal

The Soho House chain of private members' clubs has been sold in a record breaking deal that will make its founder around £25 million while his business partner Richard Caring is set to land £125million

Albert Hall is warned to stop members selling tickets to touts

The Royal Albert Hall has been warned by the Charities Commission after boxes to major events such as the Last Night of the Proms appeared on ticket touts' websites for up to £20,000

New Docklands emerges inland as prices force bankers east

Flush young City workers are helping create an 'inland Docklands' by buying refurbishments of former warehouses, factories and council houses worth hundreds of thousands of pounds

The juggernaut is in trouble

Commentary: Tesco has not always been an easy company to love, but that has not stopped it conquering Britain. For two decades it has trounced its rivals and carpet-bombed the country with stores

Dawn chorus: You can't park there

This is the moment a driver was threatened with a £130 fine before dawn by a Westminster council traffic warden

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