A shareholder battle erupts over control of Healthcare Locums, the nursing recruitment company which spectacularly came to grief earlier this year after the discovery of accounting irregularities... more
Robert Halfon, the Tory MP for Harlow, has been taking no prisoners in his attempts to expose the extraordinary power of the Institute For Fiscal Studies in Whitehall circles... more
Martin Hughes, the high-profile hedge-fund manager and majority owner of Toscafund Asset Management, took a massive pay cut last year but still collected a cool £15 million... more
Some fund managers believe the banks have started to run ahead of events following their recent strong rally. But Morgan Stanley reckons there may still be something to go for... ... more
Stock-market superbear Albert Edwards has had a change of heart. The global market strategist with Société Générale reckons the recent plunge in share prices has brought valuations to levels that even trenchant bears such as he might decide makes them look cheap... more
It's been a few days of differing fortunes for those investors who took up shares in the massive placings launched last week by Barclays and its rival Lloyds TSB... more
London Gateway, the £1.5bn container port under construction on the Thames at Thurrock, will have capacity to unload six of the world's largest ships at one time and have as much impact on the capital as a new airport or half a dozen Westfield shopping centres
With London Fashion Week kicking off on Friday, British designer Matthew Williamson tells Rosamund Urwin about breaking up with his ex, post-show partying and his new model man
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