Michael Vaughan’s 2005 Ashes winners collapsed into mediocrity but this team have all the qualities to become Test cricket’s next dominant force... more
John Rocha's latest collection near Dover Street Market celebrates 25 years in fashion. He tells Liz Hoggard why he's not posh enough for Mayfair... more
As Jasper Conran joins the family business he speaks out on body shape, his own eating disorders, Victoria Beckham and why Elton would make a great dad... more
To write about the problems now besetting the company that owns The Independent is rather like intruding on personal grief because of its significance to the O’Reilly family, most notably its patriarch, Sir Anthony John Francis O’Reilly... more
Lawyers at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer must be ringing up their Clifford Chance counterparts to gloat. Equity partners at the triple-barrelled legal firm pocketed almost twice as much as those at its Magic Circle rival last year... more
Linklaters today emerged as the highest-grossing UK legal firm as it raked in fees from advising on three of the biggest corporate collapses of last year ... more
Linklaters emerged as the highest-grossing UK legal firm as it raked in fees from advising on three of the biggest corporate collapses of last year... more
One of Britain and Ireland's great newspaper barons has given up the game as Sir Tony O'Reilly stood down for the sake of peace at the warring Independent News & Media (INM)... more
IT'S official. The economy is in recession: figures for the last quarter of 2008 show that there have been two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth... more
Consumer: The British fine pottery industry is disappearing rapidly as two historic pottery firms today joined Wedgwood and called in administrators... more
When Waterford Wedgwood went down, Robert Peston said, rightly, on the radio that the collapse of the pottery firm was a tragedy as it deprived Britain of a part of the manufacturing base it will need when the recession is over... more
Consumer: Administrators for Waterford Wedgwood, the collapsed maker of classic china and crystal, said they would cut 367 jobs from a plant in Britain... more
The Bank of England may have been forced by the economic crisis to cut interest rates to the lowest level in its history, but actually it has been rather a good week for the economy... more
The demise of Waterford Wedgwood is a sorry tale. There is red ink everywhere, the Stoke pottery operation is pointing fingers at the Irish glassmaking side, while there's much brouhaha about moving the whole manufacturing process to Indonesia... more
Consumer: Waterford Wedgwood, owner of some of the finest names ever to grace the world’s dining tables, gave up the fight for survival and called in the administrators... more
Crystal and porcelain maker Waterford Wedgwood faces an uncertain future after its lenders agreed to defer a financial evaluation for the third time this month... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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