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Job cuts announcement worries Vauxhall workers

14.09.09
The new owners of Vauxhall/Opel sent fear through the 5000-strong UK-workforce when they said they expected to make 10,500 job cuts across Europe... more

Newcastle sign up Man Utd defender Danny Simpson

14.08.09
Newcastle have signed defender Danny Simpson on loan from Barclays Premier League champions Manchester United... more

Jaguar Land Rover pushes the boat out to sell its cars

30.06.09
It may be cutting costs to the bone back home in the Midlands but Jaguar Land Rover is not shy of extravagance when it needs to keep up appearances... more

Women lack that ruthless lust for power

09.06.09
Caroline Flint, the former Europe minister, is angry at the shortage of powerful women in Gordon Brown’s Cabinet... more

Russian duel as Gazprom launches rival bid for Sibir

23.04.09
Shares of Sibir Energy remained suspended at 176¾p, where they have been since February... more

200 model elephants to cover capital for charity

21.04.09
A herd of 200 fibreglass elephants is to invade London in a show billed as the capital’s biggest public art exhibition... more

Cheaper, nicer, better – the train, plane and boat travel alternatives every Londoner should know

27.02.09
Even in the transport black hole that is Britain, there are pockets of travel quality - the Evening Standard reveals how to travel in comfort and style... more

Worry for Vauxhall over GM's job cuts

18.02.09
Engineering: General Motors' plans to cut 47,000 jobs worldwide spread more gloom over its Ellesmere Port Vauxhall plant on Merseyside... more

Investors take shine to diamonds online

13.02.09
Investment: Investors can now get their cut of diamonds more easily, with the opening of the first online exchange for the gems... more

Eddie’s words no transport of delight...

03.12.08
Stobart Group, famed for its Eddie Stobart green lorries with girls’ names, is clearly delighted to have bought Southend Airport for £21 million... more

Highlights of the lowlands in Bruegel to Rubens

28.11.08
The fashion for Dutch and Flemish masters has waned in the past half century. Bruegel to Rubens reminds us of the odd riches we now overlook.... more

V&A leads celebration of 'dazzling' age

20.10.08
London is set to go Baroque next year when the Victoria and Albert Museum heads a cavalcade of events celebrating the style epitomised by Louis XIV's palace at Versailles... more

Will the party soon be over for the Frieze crowd?

16.10.08
As London’s largest art fair opens to the public, our critic reveals the best — and the worst excesses — of the inflated contemporary market... more

Thames reveals forgotten wrecks

26.08.08
17th century warship and 'Dad's Navy' gunboat among the vessels rediscovered in huge salvage operation filmed by BBC.... more

October parade to honour heroes of the Games

19.08.08
Britain's Olympic heroes are to be paraded through London to mark the nation's best medal tally since 1920... more

That's Rich

11.08.08
After dodging US marshals and fleeing to Switzerland, one of the world's most secretive billionaires is putting his head above the parapet again... more

Britain 'set for Olympic record'

05.08.08
Britain will enjoy its best Olympics in living memory in Beijing, the minister in charge of sport claimed... more

Britain 'set for Olympic record'

05.08.08
Britain will enjoy its best Olympics in living memory in Beijing, the minister in charge of sport claims... more

Give us a run for our money or else, says Minister

05.08.08
Britain's athletes must win a record haul of medals at Beijing Olympics or risk having funding cut in build-up to 2012 ... more

Brits prepare for bumper medal haul in Beijing

02.07.08
British athletes will enjoy their most successful Olympics since the 1920 Games in Antwerp, according to forecasts... more

Tate launches appeal to buy £6m Rubens sketch

05.06.08
Historian David Starkey has backed a Tate campaign to buy a £6million oil sketch by the 17th century master Peter Paul Rubens... more

Right Rubens, wrong gallery

25.04.08
The Glynde sketch is a masterpiece worth saving for the nation, even at £6 million. But it should not go to Tate Britain, says Brian Sewell.... more

Porn from the provinces

07.12.07
Discoveries at the National Gallery is a worthy project that aims to catalogue every publicly owned painting in Britain but it is populated by some surprisingly low-rent works.... more

Found in storage... the 1650s painting used as a dartboard

21.11.07
A painting once used as a dartboard by juvenile delinquents has been identified as depicting the house of the Old Master Peter Paul Rubens.... more

Extensive range of Belgian booze on offer

03.07.07
The Dovetail Bar does a good impression of being Antwerp rather than London and provides a refreshing change from the tide of gastropubs... more

Galleries sign up for fifth Frieze Art Fair

18.04.07
New galleries from Sao Paulo, Los Angeles, Oslo and Antwerp will join the line-up for the fifth Frieze Art Fair in London this autumn.... more

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