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Watchdog puts brake on Cosalt marime sale plan

11.07.11
Cosalt, the marine safety group chaired by David Ross, says the deal to sell its marine business to Survitec will be delayed due to an intervention by the OFT... more

Tracker fund buying spree drives charge by TalkTalk shares

10.03.11
TalkTalk surges 7%, but this time it wasn't takeover tittle-tattle boosting the broadband provider... more

Carphone’s David Ross sells half of Kandahar empire

06.01.11
Carphone Warehouse founder David Ross breaks up his Kandahar property empire with the £240 million sale of a shopping centre to British Land ... more

Cosalt shares up 21% on bid approach

01.11.10
Shares in Cosalt, the marine safety firm, shoot up as much as 21% to 4.38p on news of a bid approach... more

Tory donor David Ross has bad year with family firm Cosalt

02.02.10
David Ross, the Conservative donor and Carphone Warehouse founder, admits his family business was hit hard last year as profits dropped by a quarter... more

Ross returns to his role as chairman of family firm

30.11.09
The rehabilitation into polite City society of Carphone Warehouse joint founder David Ross got underway today as he was reappointed to the chairmanship of Cosalt... more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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