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Carillion sells green consultancy for £27m

12.10.09
Carillion, the support services giant, today agreed to sell its environmental consultancy business Enviros s... more

Making an ass of the law

22.09.09
The range of construction schemes ripped off demonstrates how builders operate: from the bare-faced cheeky to the downright disgraceful ... more

Lord Sugar conned by dodgy builders in Mayfair deal

22.09.09
NEW: Sir Alan Sugar was ripped off by dodgy builders in a multimillion pound redevelopment of a fashion market in the heart of London... more

Carillion in £1bn Openreach deal

20.08.09
Construction giant Carillion signed a £1 billion deal with Openreach, the phone engineers which look after the BT network ... more

Dana is Footsie gusher as takeover talk prompts feverish trading

18.06.09
A brief flurry of speculative buying saw shares of Dana Petroleum strike a high for the day of 1470p as talk whizzed around the Square Mile that a bid was on the way... more

North London Line given £90m upgrade

20.04.09
The North London Line, the overground railway that runs in a sweeping arc from Richmond through north-west London to Stratford in the east, is to get a £90 million upgrade ahead of the Olympics in 2012... more

BHP Billiton 'has a new £18bn bid target in sights'

27.03.09
The world's biggest mining company BHP Billiton may be looking to flex its financial muscles by lining up another major acquisition... more

Market round-up: L&G short-sellers put the Footsie on downward trail

18.02.09
Shares on the London stock market briefly dropped back below the important 4000 resistance level today for the first time since October, as the short-sellers appeared to regain the upper hand in Legal & General.... more

Boris Johnson backs plan for university on Olympic park site

14.01.09
Plans for a university on the site of the London Olympics will take a step forward next month with the launch of a viability study backed by London Mayor Boris Johnson... more

Carillion bucks the trend with 15% leap

10.12.08
Construction: Carillion, the construction and support services group, defied the credit crunch and said profits would surge ... more

Moving Olympic media centre would save £100m

28.11.08
Cost-cutting proposals to move part of the 2012 media centre from Hackney to Stratford City have taken a step forward... more

Funding for Olympic media base in jeopardy

25.09.08
The £400million media centre for the 2012 Olympics is caught up in a funding crisis... more

This fraud story will be challenge for SFO chief

18.07.08
The unfinished tale of a multi-million-pound commercial property fraud highlights how tough it will be for newly appointed SFO director Richard Alderman to make the agency fast and effective... more

Mayor seeks City financial expert to check growing cost of Olympics

15.05.08
Boris Johnson is to hire a financial expert from the City to scrutinise the spiralling budget for the 2012 Olympics... more

Credit crunch to force Olympics over budget

01.05.08
The credit crunch looks certain to force two of the biggest venues in the Olympic Park over budget, the Standard can reveal... more

OFT probe targets 112 builders in 'bid scam'

17.04.08
112 construction firms accused by OFT of colluding to rip-off taxpayers in £3bn bid-rigging scandal... more

Cost of Olympics media centre has tripled to £400m

26.02.08
The cost of the media centre for the London Olympics could rise to £400million - almost three times the original estimate - the Standard has learned... more

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