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West End stores call for all-year Sunday traffic ban

03.10.11
West End stores call for traffic to be banned from Oxford Street and Regent Street every Sunday to give shoppers a weekly break from "congestion hell"... more

Oxford Street to go car-free at Christmas

18.04.11
Boris Johnson has banned traffic from the West End for an unprecedented three days over Christmas to boost flagging sales... more

City Spy: Goldman boss Cohn forgets about all those Fed loans

04.04.11
Gary Cohn, president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs, was asked last year by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in the US whether the investment bank had used overnight loans from the Federal Reserve. ... more

Shops in 'battle of Piccadilly' call on Boris Johnson to ban protests

28.03.11
Store bosses demanded a ban on West End marches after suffering millions of pounds of losses in Saturday's 'totally unacceptable' violent protests... more

Has Westfield's Games mall hit the upmarket jackpot?

25.03.11
In the hut where I got booted and safety-suited before touring Westfield's Olympic-sized mall at Stratford on Wednesday, a note lay by a pair of tan boots indicating they were for Joseph Wan, chief executive of Harvey Nichols... more

Independent schools 'are best at innovating'

16.03.11
State schools will never be as free as the private sector to experiment with the best ways of teaching children, the Independent Schools Council head said ... more

Divided pavements on Oxford Street would put the tourists into slow lanes

26.07.10
Oxford Street's heaving pavements could soon be turned into pedestrian 'dual-carriageways' to allow office workers and residents to overtake dawdling tourists... more

Oxford St aims to take world retail title from New York

26.07.10
London laid down a designer-label gauntlet with a target of toppling New York as the world's premier shopping city by 2020... more

Tube cuts will damage economy, say City chiefs

20.07.10
More than 100 leading business figures urge Transport Secretary Philip Hammond to protect vital investment in the Tube... more

Boris Johnson won’t get into a flap when it comes to plucking the goose to improve London

16.07.10
On Property: The Mayor favours business improvement districts as they express local views, such as the New West End Company... more

Cuts to Tube will cost economy £66billion, warn 50 City bosses

13.07.10
More than 50 leading City figures urged the Government to protect the Tube from devastating cuts... more

Rise of the capital's golden skirts

18.06.09
With so few women making it to the top in business, those who do have the pick of plum boardroom jobs — and can make a fortune juggling up to six at a time... more

How the West End can be an oasis for its shoppers

12.06.09
The Westminster Property Association is not known for its largesse. That is perhaps why Boris Johnson's eyebrows disappeared under his fringe on Tuesday when he was offered cash to spruce up the West End by a group whose members have given a less-than-generous response to his demand to pay a £20-per-square-foot development levy for Crossrail.... more

Mind your language: sales staff given guide on foreign shoppers

22.04.09
The West End has drawn up a strategy to pull in an extra £3billion from overseas shoppers by focusing on their specific cultural needs... more

Firms want Oxford Street buses cut by a third

10.03.09
Business leaders issued a fresh call for a big cut in the number of buses in Oxford Street... more

US must be told Ulster wants peace

10.03.09
As Northern Ireland responds to the first murder of a policeman for 12 years, only two days after two young soldiers were shot outside their Antrim barracks, the province's First Minister, Peter Robinson, and Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, travel to America... more

Three ways to bring a new dawn to Oxford St

17.10.08
On Saturday, 6 December this year the annual ritual of transforming Oxford Street into a pedestrian precinct is due to be repeated. Why not experiment further?... more

Property

08.10.08
The super-rich still love London, keeping prices at the top end high. Across the city there remains a shortage of homes but building is slowing in the crunch. ... more

City's new champion is ready to thump tables for its future

14.05.08
Stuart Fraser has succeeded Michael Snyder as the Square Mile's chief executive and is determined to defend it against all-comers including the Government... more


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