Howzat! WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell was in action at Sir Victor Blank's charity cricket match over the weekend when he suffered a minor travesty of justice at the hands of former CBI chief Lord Jones, aka ex-trade minister Digby Jones... more
Ian Storey, former financial controller of iSoft, the IT company at the heart of a £2 billion upgrade of NHS computers, is barred from acting as a chartered accountant for eight years... more
Four former directors of iSoft, the IT firm at the heart of a £2 billion NHS computer upgrade, are charged with conspiracy to make misleading statements... more
According to Ofcom, the British are watching more television than ever — an average, in 2008, of three hours and 45 minutes a day (which is a 3.2 per cent increase on the previous year)... more
Investors might begin to wonder whether it has become the most poisoned chalice in British business: the chairmanship of BP, the job that apparently nobody wants... more
Boris Johnson is slashing his official Beijing Olympics budget by more than £1 million after discovering a plan to fly 18 Gordon Ramsay chefs
to China... more
The latest YouGovStone poll, which we publish today, shows that leading Londoners see a range of threats to the capital's global status, including to the role of the financial sector, the biggest single factor, a majority believe, in London's position... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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