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Whitbread chief executive warns on slump

13.10.09
We aren’t out of recession yet and anyone who thinks we are should take a cheap weekend away to reconsider ... more

Rudd in the money as Finsbury shrugs off recession

06.10.09
City public relations supremo Roland Rudd earned £2.9 million last year as his Finsbury agency prospered despite the credit crunch ... more

Fame is highly unlikely to live forever

25.09.09
Quite why anyone decided to make another version of Christopher Gore and Alan Parker’s exhilarating 1980 film, Fame, is beyond understanding... more

Arsenal fan raises his voice in Russia

23.09.09
Cuddly would-be Arsenal owner Alisher Usmanov is strenthening his grip on Russia’s media... ... more

Premier feels the pinch

07.09.09
Whitbread dismissed talk that the economy is recovering as it unveiled a slump in sales at its budget hotel chain Premier Inn ... more

Dot to dot career of Britain's digital tsar Stephen Carter

17.06.09
From law to advertising to Ofcom to No 10, few CVs could match that of Stephen Carter. But what will the communications minister do next?... more

City Spy: Beats having to work for a living

17.06.09
Adam Posen is not the first American appointee to the Bank of England monetary policy committee — that was DeAnne Julius, between 1997 and 2001... more

Whitbread rocked by rude awakening at Premier Inn

16.06.09
Sales have slumped at Premier Inn in the midst of the worst trading conditions in the hotel sector for 30 years... more

Whitbread takes on quality hotel market

28.04.09
Premier Inn owner Whitbread is poised to ramp up its advertising aggressively to take on hotel chains of supposedly higher quality ... more

Take the Forbes Rich List with a big dose of salt

13.03.09
The annual Forbes list of the richest people in the world is published and it is treated as gospel. Yet closer examination reveals all manner of imperfections... more

Downturn hurts but Whitbread is upbeat

02.03.09
Leisure: The recession must be serious - even Whitbread is feeling the pinch... more

Branagh and Leigh lead campaign to end illegal film downloads

16.12.08
More than 100 award-winning producers, directors and writers called for action to tackle illegal downloads of films and TV shows which they say are threatening jobs... more

Property mogul Moore returns to fray as vulture

16.12.08
Hard to believe that Jim Moore has the nerve to return, but the founder of bankrupt property seminar organiser Inside Track really is back... more

HSBC did well – by ignoring City’s rules

15.12.08
Which of our High Street banks has for the most part ridden out the financial crisis? Yep, HSBC, the bank that rode roughshod all over corporate governance rules by successively appointing their chief executives to be chairman... more

Whitbread's a warm order in the crunch

08.12.08
Leisure: Whitbread continues to be a credit-crunch winner as its Premier Inn budget hotels arm keeps luring tourists, and Costa Coffee stays frothy... more

Crunch values lift Whitbread

14.10.08
Whitbread, the business priced for the credit crunch before the term was invented, showed that its cut-price offerings are still luring punters... more

Whitbread cheers market with strong first-half results

04.09.08
Leisure: Whitbread cheered the market with a robust set of first half revenues showing that its value-for-money sales pitch is working strongly through the consumer downturn... more

Whitbread could do an asset swap with M&B

17.06.08
Deal could be the first in the next wave of consolidation likely to hit the pubs and hotels sector... more

'No slowdown' as Whitbread rises to £210m

28.04.08
Cheap hotel rooms-to-Costa Coffee group Whitbread could be the business best-placed to cope with the downturn. ... more

One of a kind

28.04.08
The slimmer, newly divorced Johnny Vegas was still the same savage tornado of shameless self-loathing, bitterness and regret at Stewart Lee's show.... more

UK's biggest host plays safe and still delivers - even at T5

09.04.08
INTERVIEW Alan Parker's restaurants, hotels and Costa Coffee make £200m-plus... more

Whitbread hotel boost in London

08.04.08
Whitbread reveals a huge expansion of its Premier Inn hotels chain in central London... more

Crime pays in a capable British caper directed with pace, panache and an eye for period

04.03.08
Film: Anyone in search of cheerfully mindless entertainment this weekend could do much worse than The Bank Job, a British caper movie by Roger Donaldson, the Antipodean director who brought us such solidly competent fare as Thirteen Days and The World's Fastest Indian... more

Critic's choice: the best comedy shows

19.07.07
It's the final weekend of the Ealing Comedy Festival, US mentalist Marc Salem continues to amaze with his mind-reading feats and Frank Sidebottom makes a welcome return.... more

Almost too much talent

13.07.07
Simon Munnery's 80-minute nostalgic retrospective perfectly summed up his enduring style - sublime wit hampered by haphazard execution, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Critic's choice: top five comedy

12.07.07
It's festival mania this weekend with Bill Bailey, Alan Carr, Stewart Lee, Reg Hunter, Michael McIntyre and Richard Blackwood all taking the stage at shows across London and the south.... more

A comic full of character

10.07.07
Sharon Lougher talks to Simon Munnery, a comic who splits opinion with his experimental, off-the-wall imagination, ahead of the former Perrier nominee's Soho Theatre run.... more

Minghella launches new film centre

13.03.07
Oscar-winning director Anthony Minghella is hosting a champagne reception to launch the British Film Institute's new multi-million pound cultural centre.... more

Celebration of offbeat laughs

07.02.07
Phill Jupitus, Stewart Lee and Richard Herring were among the comedians performing to raise money to put surreal Midlands comic Ted Chippington's early work on CD.... more

Return to the age of innocence

07.12.06
A modern audience is likely to find that Alan Parker's cod-Twenties gangster film Bugsy Malone displays a little too much sex and sin.... more

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