One of Britain's biggest home emergency insurance providers is forced into compulsory liquidation, leaving homeowners and landlords in the lurch... more
Brit Insurance is heading off the stock market, but said in its last results as a public company that it is doing well enough to demand the top price from its new owners... more
Market round-up: Rumours of interest in Lookers are revived, with the City’s big mouths claiming that a private equity firm is mulling a bid worth 95p per share... more
Bowler hits back at Shane Watson's claim that he is the weak link in the England team and insisted the criticism would serve to spur him on in the Ashes... more
England’s cricket team fails to attract a full house for the opening day of the third Test against Pakistan as fans continue to turn their backs on the oldest form of the game... more
Shares rallied from opening falls after several billion pounds' worth of takeovers were dangled in front of City speculators in order to whet their appetites ... more
The cheers rang around Lime Street in the City today after Lloyd's of London broker Brit Insurance chose to withdraw its £221 million bid for rival Chaucer and thereby avoid the possibility of involving itself in a bidding war... more
Three of the largest specialist insurers listed on the London stock market revealed they lost or made barely any money on their financial investments in 2008... more
Insurance: Brit Insurance confirmed its reputation as one of the most prudently managed Lloyd's of London operators when it signalled that profits will be much higher than the market was expecting... more
As Gordon Brown takes his entire cabinet to Birmingham to show the Government is connecting with the majority of the electorate, businesses are voting with their feet... more
London fashion designer Hussein Chalayan and Tate Modern architects Herzog and de Meuron are among winners of the inaugural Brit Insurance Design Awards... more
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