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Be honourable and repay £100,000, Wilshire told

16.10.09
Tory MP David Wilshire urged to repay expenses of more than £100,000 that he reportedly directed into a firm which he jointly owned... more

Is the price right to sign up with E.On?

05.10.09
“There is not a clear message regarding future wholesale costs movements that can be communicated to customers” E.On’s Paul Golby obliquely commented recently, on the chances of a cut in retail prices for Britain’s households...... more

Your last throw of the dice to be Lord Mayor: the City boardgame

29.07.09
It takes a career at the top of the financial world, years of assiduous networking and the support of the members of London's ancient guilds to become Lord Mayor... more

Tiger Tiger group near to bars-for-debt swap

25.06.09
Troubled West End bars chain Novus, which owns Tiger Tiger, Sugar Reef and the Zoo Bar, looks set for a refinancing that would make Barclays and RBS big shareholders... more

Ernst & Young is not top of the pops

02.06.09
A catastrophe for the noble firm of Ernst & Young, a bulwark of what has been known as the Big Four in the accountancy profession. It has been relegated to fifth in rankings of listed company auditors...... more

League send Southampton down with 10-point punishment

23.04.09
Football: The Football League has relegated Southampton to League One by deducting the club 10 points ... more

MPs should try grilling Bank’s rate-setters

21.04.09
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Bank carries on printing to escape the doldrums

09.04.09
The Bank of England stuck to its guns over its dramatic decision to print money to drag the UK out of recession... more

Grant Thornton finds it brighter on High St

06.04.09
High Street trading conditions may have turned the corner, a leading consultant claimed... more

Gordon to Obama - it's the world, not US, to blame

09.03.09
Quelle Surprise. Gordon Brown was unable to bring himself to tell to Barack Obama to his face that the global recession was the fault of America. Strange, as this was something he has been only too happy to trumpet up until now.... more

Bank cuts interest rate to record low

05.03.09
The Bank of England has slashed interest rates to another record low of 0.5%... more

Castlemore collapses and blames the banks

27.02.09
Property: One of Britain’s biggest property-developing firms collapsed into administration, in another sign of the dire state of the economy... more

Lydd racing circuit owner crashes out

20.02.09
Consumer: A karting and motorbiking centre has fallen victim to the credit crunch and collapsed into administration... more

Now City of London Corp gets political

09.02.09
So Labour is to put up candidates for the City of London Corporation elections. Labour says it wants to "highlight what is wrong with the established governance of the City of London, and how its largely unaccountable leaders have brought Britain to recession"... more

'Bond hotel' plan hit by £72m loan default

06.02.09
Property: Plans to turn the celebrated former Midland Bank building, whose vaults starred as Fort Knox in the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, into London's first six-star hotel have been thrown into disarray after the owner defaulted on a £72 million loan... more

BAT set for £1.2bn in victory over taxman

27.11.08
Tax: The Treasury faces having to pay out up to £7 billion after the High Court ruled today in a landmark case that UK firms' dividends on foreign earnings should not have been taxed... more

City's top earners hunt for ways round higher tax rates

25.11.08
Budget report: Accountants are busy looking at schemes to prevent City high-flyers and other top earners being hit by a near-60% rate of taxation on their pay packets... more

Toy sellers' double boost from VAT cut turmoil

25.11.08
The move to slash VAT could be particularly good news for Britain's struggling toy sector, which is now in line for two good Christmases on the trot... more

Economists question Darling's optimism

25.11.08
Leading economists have questioned Alistair Darling's optimism about when Britain will begin to recover from the recession... more

Small firms dismayed by Darling's small print

25.11.08
Budget report: The enthusiasm of small businesses for the Pre-Budget Report's £7 billion recession package was being dampened today as companies examined the small print... more

£125bn blackhole as tax receipts plunge

23.10.08
THE Government could face a £125billion black hole as the country tips into recession, an Evening Standard investigation reveals... more

Relief for homeowners as mortgage costs fall

08.10.08
The cost of mortgages has fallen giving home-owners a long-awaited break from the credit crunch... more

'Silver-haired' divorce rates at all-time high

29.08.08
The rate of marriage break-up between couples who have been together for decades has hit a record high, official statistics reveal... more

City tycoon Michael Spencer's £1bn break-up

29.08.08
Billionaire Tory Party treasurer Michael Spencer has separated from his wife after 25 years of marriage... more

Darling to make another U-turn on tax this week

21.07.08
Alistair Darling will carry out another U-turn on tax this week by abandoning new moves to tax foreign profits made by British firms... more

Roche shows mega-deal alive with Genentech bid

21.07.08
Swiss drugmaker Roche has offered to buy out its US partner Genentech in a deal worth £21.9m... more

City fear as shares slide

01.07.08
Shares went into a tailspin on the Stock Exchange amid fears that the economy is heading for a long-term slump... more

Private equity feels the gloom

23.06.08
Private equity executives are gloomier than they have been in five years as takeover activity dwindles in the credit crunch... more

Supply fear drives the crude price above $135

22.05.08
An extraordinary $5-a-barrel spike in the price of oil has sent crude to all-time highs... more

M&As drop by 40% amid credit crunch

16.04.08
Merger and acquisition activity in the UK slumps dramatically in the first three months of the year... more

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