Former Northern Rock shareholders reacted with fury to news that they will get no compensation from the Government after it nationalised the bank two years ago... more
Former shareholders in Northern Rock failed in their second legal attempt to force the Government to pay them hundreds of millions of pounds compensation after the bank was nationalised two years ago ... more
Analysis: A year ago, BBC News dropped a bombshell the City will never forget. Northern Rock, one of the country's biggest mortgage lenders, had run out of cash and was going cap in hand to the Bank of England for emergency funding... more
Legal Analysis A hedge fund that bought heavily into Northern Rock is claiming its human rights were violated when the mortgage lender was nationalised in February... more
Monaco-based multimillionaire Jon Wood is an unlikely champion of the dispossessed - and even allies in the fight against nationalisation seem wary of him
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When people talk about the success of the City, they tend to overlook the law firms although the magic circle of big City houses have been profitable, and lucrative for their higher-level employees, while managing to avoid for the most part coming under foreign ownership. The law, even English law, remains a less international profession than most of the other City activities... more
French bank BNP Paribas said yesterday that its board had not discussed the possibility of a bid for Société Générale, its high-stepping rival recently bought low by a rogue trader who cost it e4.9 billion (£3.6 billion)... 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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