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Give yourself a £5,000 bonus: advice for cash-strapped Londoners

13.10.11
Everyone is feeling the pinch at the moment, but by economising on the basics it's possible to save a small fortune. Jasmine Gardner gives her advice to cash-strapped Londoners... more

Home in on a mortgage move to beat the crisis

27.09.11
On the money: The spectre of a fresh global economic crisis means homeowners who are languishing on standard variable-rate mortgages need to switch now, brokers warn... more

BT chief picks up £2.4m pay and bonuses

27.05.11
Ian Livingston, chief executive of British Telecom, collected £2.4 million in pay and cash bonus last year with a further £1.4 million in shares due to him in three years' time... more

Comet sell-off talk sparks interest in Kesa Electricals

16.05.11
British shoppers may be shunning its stores, but Comet owner Kesa Electricals was at least in demand among investors today... more

BT is fined £300,000 after engineer’s fatal ladder fall

16.12.10
British Telecom is fined £300,000 for breaches of health and safety laws which led to the death of an engineer in a fall from a stepladder ... more

Wi-fi trial will let commuters browse internet on Underground

29.10.10
Commuters will be able to go online at Tube stations for the first time in a groundbreaking trial starting on Monday... more

Man Group tops Footsie as City feverishly talks up bid from Mellon

07.10.10
Could predator be set to turn prey at Man Group? The City is hot with talk that the hedge fund manager, which is buying rival GLG, is about to be snapped up by the Bank of New York Mellon... more

London as you've never seen it from the top of the BT Tower

15.09.10
This weekend the BT Tower opens to the public for the first time since 1981 — and the 360-degree view from the top is amazing... more

Project Canvas 'will kill TV quality and choice', claims Virgin Media

03.08.10
Virgin Media complains Project Canvas, the BBC and BT-backed venture to bring internet access to TV, will be anti-competitive... more

BT boss doubles pay with £1.2m bonus

26.05.10
Ian Livingston, chief executive of BT, is paid a £1.2 million bonus to almost double his total package to £2.1 million... more

Banks still on the slide despite Vince Cable’s plans stalling

13.05.10
Market Round-up: The City may be celebrating news that Vince Cable will not be put in charge of reforming the nation’s banks but the sector’s shares are still sold off... more

VICTIMS: Politicians and stars ‘caught in the trap’

09.07.09
List of those targeted in News of the World operations to hack mobile phones and purchase confidential information is a wide cross-section from the worlds of politics and showbusiness... more

There ain’t no cure for summertime blues in the City

25.06.09
A couple of years ago, it was pretty much guaranteed that from the fourth weekend of July through to the first week of September the City shut down... more

BT gets staff to work for rivals to cut costs

19.06.09
First British Airways asked staff if they felt like working for nothing. Now British Telecom says they should go and work for rivals - just for a while... more

Xstrata on retreat despite success of £4bn cash call

18.03.09
Mining giant Xstrata today confirmed that its whopping £4.1 billion rights issue had been a runaway success... more

Footsie unshaken by huge rise in American jobless

06.03.09
A dramatic rise in the number of Americans who lost their jobs last month saw the US unemployment rate today rise to its highest in 25 years and raised fresh fears about the health of the world's biggest economy... more

BT warns of new charges blow after 81% plunge

12.02.09
Telecoms: BT Group has warned it could face "further substantial" charges at its troubled Global Services division as it revealed an 81% collapse in third-quarter profits... more

BT faces £17m bill for pensions protection

11.02.09
Telecoms: Telecoms giant BT faces a near-£17 million bill after it was ordered to make several years of payments into the scheme that covers pensions when firms go bust. ... more

City venue 'loses thousands' after BT error blocked calls

22.01.09
A fledgling City business is struggling to survive after a British Telecom error blocked customer calls for 26 days... more

10,000 jobs axed at BT as 1000 bankers go too

13.11.08
BT axed 10,000 jobs and more than 1,000 City bankers were facing unemployment as the full impact of the economic downturn took hold... more

Market report: Barclays hit as brokers slam fundraising plans

03.11.08
Its rivals may have hogged the headlines with news of further write-downs, but it was Barclays that attracted some undesired attention from brokers... more

BT warns of an £80m blow to profits and Global boss goes

31.10.08
Telecoms: Telecoms giant BT issues a shock profits warning that its profits will come in some £80 million lower than expected in the year to next March... more

Job cut costs clip bottom line at BT

31.07.08
Telecoms group's net profits fell 35% in first quarter as the cost of job cuts takes its toll... more

BT plans a £1.5bn superfast step-up for broadband

15.07.08
BT today promised millions of customers the chance to receive superfast broadband - running at five to 10 times current speeds - by the time of the London Olympics in 2012... more

I rejoice in my freedom from the coils of a computer

11.07.08
It is well-known among my peers that I have no computer, that I first write illegibly by hand and then legibly - a polished transcript - on a manual typewriter... more

Verwaayen signs off from BT with revenues surprise

15.05.08
Ben Verwaayen signs off as chief executive of BT Group after six years in charge on a high with much better than expected trading in the final three months of its financial year... more


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