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Carphone founder raises £70m in share sale

11.06.09
David Ross, the co-founder of Carphone Warehouse who is battling to keep his property empire together, today raised over £70 million selling stakes in two listed companies ... more

Cosalt warns on its profits after shortfall

26.05.09
Cosalt, the shipping safety supplier where Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross was forced to stand down as chairman last year, warned its profits won't hit market expectations this year ... more

Carphone's Ross lobs £250,000 at Big Yellow

18.05.09
Carphone Warehouse co-founder David Ross ploughed £250,000 into Big Yellow, the self-storage firm where he quit as a director last year, as the City prepared for a fresh wave of fundraisings ... more

Devaney to lead National Express board

02.04.09
National Express has appointed veteran industrialist John Devaney, 62 to head its board... more

Bowker looks lonely at top of National Express

24.02.09
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An evening’s whiff-whaff with a charitable banker

16.02.09
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Share-pledge deadline sparks bosses deluge

23.01.09
Governance: The torrent of top bosses admitting to pledging their company shares to finance their private lives turns into a tsunami... more

Who's in and who's out

19.01.09
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Market report: Rio Tinto makes gains on talk of swoop by big holder

19.01.09
There are still pockets of interest for stock-market investors, despite the gloom surrounding the banking sector at present... more

Sainsbury's chief: I'll get Olympics right for spectators

16.01.09
Sainsbury chief executive Justin King signalled a change of focus in Olympic planning as he was confirmed as the Mayor's new appointment to the board of 2012 organising committee... more

Carphone rings up a decent Christmas as rivals suffer

15.01.09
Consumer: It was the worst-ever Christmas for the mobile phone industry, but market leader Carphone Warehouse claimed victory in the battle to get consumers to part with their cash... more

Letting Lehman go under was Paulson’s big mistake

12.01.09
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FSA clears Ross in Carphone shares row but stresses rules

09.01.09
Regulation: David Ross, the founder and former deputy chairman of Carphone Warehouse, who was forced to resign last month after he failed to disclose that he had used £130 million of his shares as security against personal loans, is off the hook... more

Commentary: Rules make it hard to tell what directors are meant to reveal

23.12.08
In the 15 days since Carphone Warehouse disclosed that its deputy chairman, David Ross, had pledged his £157 million stake in the firm against personal loans, City lawyers have been rushing to reassess their advice to clients who are directors of public companies... more

Spencer kept quiet about using shares as loan guarantee

23.12.08
Michael Spencer, the Tory party fund-raiser and one of the richest men in the City, revealed to have taken out loans against his substantial shareholding in stockbroker Numis and not made them public... more

Boris asks Sainsbury's boss to be his Olympics adviser

22.12.08
The chief executive of Sainsbury's has been asked to become the Mayor's Olympic adviser... more

Polish that estuary accent - class war is back

17.12.08
BBC presenters come and go but none with quite such scrutiny and debate as the Today programme's Ed Stourton... more

Ross knew the rules, so spare us this whitewash

15.12.08
Not for the first time in this year of all years, we're forced to contemplate the hubris of others... more

Why all the fuss about Ross deal?

11.12.08
If you consider all the things going on in the stock market that you don't know about, the undisclosed use of shares in Carphone Warehouse by founder David Ross as collateral for a loan seems to be of very little consequence... more

Shopping-centre portfolio may have tumbled by £200m

08.12.08
Retail: David Ross is believed to have used his hundreds of millions of pounds worth of shares to get loans for major property investments which have since collapsed in value.... more

Chinese university for Hackney in 2012 legacy

02.10.08
London Mayor Boris Johnson is in talks with some of China's leading universities to establish a new campus in the Olympic Park... more

WH Ireland slashes the dividend as profits take 50% plunge

18.08.08
Stockbroking firm WH Ireland blames the fallout from the credit crunch for a near-50% slump in profits... more

Progress report on the site

14.07.08
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How much, who's paying and the key players

07.07.08
Find out how much 2012 will cost, who controls the budget and how we won the Games... more

Comment: overspend on Olympic scale

20.06.08
The £9.3 billion budget for the London Olympics was already a substantial increase on the £2.4 billion that ministers initially promised as the cost of 2012... more

Olympic village runs out of cash

20.06.08
The 2012 Olympics were plunged into a major cash crisis as the firm building the athletes' village admitted it could not raise the money... more

Mayor will raid coffers to bail out Olympic village

18.06.08
Boris Johnson will propose a multi-million-pound rescue package for the Olympic village... more

Who's in and who's out

27.05.08
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Team Boris

23.05.08
The way the new Mayor runs London offers a blueprint of how a Conservative government would run the country... more

Comment: top team

21.05.08
The Mayor, Boris Johnson, has delivered on his manifesto promise to be open about the roles and pay of his top advisers... more

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