Is the phone-hacking fallout about to get a whole lot worse for News International? Rumours abound that US stars who suspect their voicemails may have been accessed are readying to launch an offensive... more
Fancy a flat at the top of Centre Point? Former Land Securities development director, Mike Hussey, is close to completing a £120 million deal to buy the 35-storey tower from the administrators, Lloyds Bank... more
There is dismay at Westminster that Twinings, the quintessentially English tea brand that is a subsidiary of Associated British Foods, is relocating much of its production to Poland... more
Ring, ring. Finsbury, Roland Rudd’s PR firm, is on the line with an (increasingly common) request that is somewhere between cheeky and downright rude... more
PR Week magazine has unveiled its Power Book of the most influential public relations practitioners, based partly on the opinions of “20 senior professional journalists”, and there are a few surprises... more
Advertising and Marketing: The recession has been brutal for most of the marketing industry but few sectors have performed better than public relations... more
Just how irritated will Manchester United boss David Gill be with the bid for the club being put together by the Red Knights consortium of wealthy fans?... more
City Editor's Comment: David Gill, Manchester United's chief executive, left me under no illusion that he opposed the Glazers' bid. So why did he change his mind?... more
Anxious times at JPMorgan's London offices. While their US boss Jamie Dimon has been hailed for his deft handling of the crunch and his firm not once posting a quarterly loss (unlike virtually every other big bank), the City HQ of JPMorgan has been in almost permanent upheaval for the last 12 months... more
Many a sore head over the last couple of mornings in the world of metal trading. Why? Once again, it’s been the London Metal Exchange week of bunfights, parties and general burning of the company credit card ... more
When the British Lions take to the rugby field against South Africa, sitting in the crowd will be arguably the two most powerful brothers working in London - Simon and Will Lewis... more
Adam Posen is not the first American appointee to the Bank of England monetary policy committee — that was DeAnne Julius, between 1997 and 2001... more
As leading business figures puncture the BA/BAA claim that a Third Runway is vital for the British economy by saying that, er, it isn’t, how does the airport operate.. ... more
Small-cap broker WH Ireland banned the Press from its annual meeting as it attempted to keep coverage of a stinging boardroom bust-up to a minimum... more
Congratulations to Finsbury on winning the Royal Bank of Scotland PR account. A clue as to where the plum contract might be heading came when Finsbury didn't repitch for the Lloyds Banking Group business.... more
Bonuses may be, er, a bone of contention these days, but at the employee-owned John Lewis Partnership they're handled with all the style and grace you'd expect from the never-knowingly-undersold retailer. ... more
THE euro is starting to reappear on the agenda. In the lead-up to the Bank's one percentage point interest rate cut, sterling plunged to a historic low against the euro and has fallen again today. ... more
Commentary: If the fall in sterling not only continues but leads to a slump then the Prime Minister may find the euro being considered as it was in the run-up to 1997... more
BBC Business editor Robert Peston has been leading the pack with his stories on the nationalisation of Bradford & Bingley, the Lloyds TSB-HBOS merger and the run on Northern Rock. But where does he get his information?... 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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