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'Sink school' that turned into best in the country

02.11.09

Former 'sink school' where 90 per cent of teenagers failed to achieve good GCSEs was named the best in the country... more

Carpetright rallying with a spurt in sales

28.10.09

Shares in retailer Carpetright ran 17.5p higher at 917.5p today after it revealed a jump in sales in the past 12 weeks and said it expected first half profits to beat City forecasts ... more

Tories rake in record Ł1.5m profit from conference takings

07.10.09

Conservatives set to make a record Ł1.5million profit from this year's conference... more

Stock markets plunge all over the world after a stall in US recovery

17.08.09

Stock markets around the world fell sharply today amid growing fears that the US economic revival has stalled ... more

Miners are sent reeling after China pulls off price-cut deal in Australia

17.08.09

Mining shares took a pummelling today on the back of a triple-whammy of woes ... more

Sales rise from the floor at Carpetright

05.08.09

Carpetright shares surged as the rugs retailer revealed sales have risen from the floor ... more

Footsie's 10-month peak is boosting hopes for economy

03.08.09

Shares on the London stock market surged to their highest level in 10 months amid signs that the worst of the banking crisis may be over and that even the global economy was starting to look in better shape... more

JJB gets a boost from the world’s richest man

16.07.09

Troubled leisurewear retailer JJB Sports got support from an unlikely source today — Bill Gates ... more

Carpetright downtrodden but looks to lift from rivals' woes

30.06.09

Carpet king Lord Harris of Peckham unveiled a slump in annual profits and doubted there would be an economic recovery this year... more

Oil explorer Bowleven hit by fears of new cash call

14.04.09

Shareholders in Edinburgh-based oil and gas explorer Bowleven may be forced to digest yet more bad news... more

Banks and miners take heart but oil shares drift

14.04.09

Better-than-expected results overnight from Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs set the tone for trading in London as investors returned from the Easter break... 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

Comet and Carpetright woes signal grim times

16.12.08

Retail: Further signs that retailers are poised to endure the toughest Christmas for decades emerged when Carpetright and the company behind electricals giant Comet unveiled a slump in sales... more

Ł3m of Elizabethan masterpieces emerge as Lord Harris sells off the family silver

30.10.08

The multimillionaire who is London's biggest sponsor of city academies is parting with Ł3 million of silver from his family collection... more

Pupils get say on running of flagship academies

27.10.08

Teenagers are to be given unprecedented influence over the future of the Government's flagship academies... more

Everyone is guilty: end the conspiracy of greed

29.09.08

Two banks nationalised, one bust, others taken over, thousands of jobs likely to be lost, the FTSE 100 through the floor, the effects likely to spill over into the rest of the economy — and still I'm not sure if we really get it... more

Hermes’ new rent rules give boost to High Street

26.09.08

Pension fund manager Hermes has stopped demanding large quarterly rent payments in a much-needed boost to the ailing High Street... more

Academy sponsors build 'branded' school empires

10.09.08

Wealthy academy backers are building education empires by opening chains of branded schools... more

Eight new academies ... and not one has its own swimming pool

05.09.08

City academies costing hundreds of millions of pounds are being built across London without crucial sports facilities... more

Carpetright sales floored by crunch

05.08.08

Carpet company admitted like-for-like sales in the last three months have crashed by 15.4%... more

High St heavyweights go to war with landlords

04.08.08

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Inflation and housing woe give Mervyn dilemma on interest rates

07.07.08

Soaring inflation and slowing economic growth is a toxic mix which threatens to plunge the British economy into crisis... more

Retail giants' shares in a sea of red

02.07.08

The retail sector was a sea of red on share traders' screens after Marks & Spencer's shock warning on its food sales... more

Carpetright rolls out Ł62 million but the sales pinch is on

01.07.08

Sales are falling at Carpetright as consumers count their pennies and the cost of floor coverings - much of which are oil-based products - rises... more