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A dollop of dollars should bring forth The Iceberg

31.07.09

To an event on Tuesday called �Tall Buildings in London, can they work?� held at the elegant offices of property agents Cushman & Wakefield in Portman Square. The subject matter may sound as relevant today as a colloquium on growing sunflowers in Reykjavik. ... more

Iceland gets cold feet over paying back bailout

14.07.09

The Icelandic government is coming under domestic pressure to renegotiate the �2.3 billion compensation it has committed to paying British savers over the collapse of Icesave and its parent bank Landsbanki ... more

Sporting Miscellanies

03.07.09

Within a week of Michael Jackson's passing, Tim Henman alludes to a JFK moment of his own... more

Baugur 'knew of trouble year before its collapse'

19.06.09

A new book into the failure of the Icelandic economy claims that directors of retail investment house Baugur knew of its financial troubles almost a year before it collapsed... more

West Ham's financial troubles far from over

09.06.09

Football: West Ham are still facing a potential financial crisis after it emerged their new owners could be forced into liquidation in less than two months... more

Queen's bank chief did not see cold front

08.05.09

Michael Morley is the new chief executive of the Queen's bank Coutts & Co. The boss of Royal Bank of Scotland's poshest offshoot used to be head of wealth management at Singer & Friedlander, owned by Icelandic bank Kaupthing which is now in administration... more

West Ham chief's �300m debt

07.05.09

Football: Pressure for West Ham to be sold this summer is set to increase after their Icelandic chairman's personal liabilities were revealed as a staggering �301million... more

Teathers at risk after Iceland bank caves in

09.03.09

The future of stockbroker Teathers has been thrown into doubt after the nationalisation of its Icelandic owner, Straumur-Burduras... more

Death riddle of promising doctor

26.02.09

A promising young doctor was found dead in her bed on holiday in Iceland in a tragedy that has baffled medical experts... more

The great High Street fire sale but will there actually be any takers?

05.02.09

With �1bn debts, retail empire Baugur is set to be broken up and, says its founder, end up in the �hands of British vultures�. It seems he couldn�t be more wrong...... more

Hamleys Icelandic investor seeks protection as bank talks fail

04.02.09

Retail: Icelandic holding company Baugur, which has major retail interests in Britain including stakes in House of Fraser and Hamleys has applied for court protection after restructuring talks with its lenders failed... more

Darling's 'duty to repay councils'

03.02.09

Chancellor Alistair Darling fuelled the run on Iceland's banks and has a "moral" obligation to help repay the �1billlion lost by British councils as a result, MPs were told... more

Chinese slowdown �threat to Party rule�

22.01.09

Economics: Fears are emerging that the rapid slowdown in Chinese growth may begin to threaten the stability of the country... more

Chairman of the board � at �56,000 a time

07.01.09

Chief executives may be in the spotlight during the new puritanism but keep an eye on the rampant pay inflation for part-time chairmen... more

Minus 10 - it's colder than the Antarctic

06.01.09

The big chill tightened its grip on London and the South-East with temperatures as low as -10C - colder than parts of Greenland and the Antarctic... more

Hughes to tempt the Hammers with new bid for duo

02.01.09

Big-spending Manchester City are preparing to test West Ham's resolve by increasing their bid for both Craig Bellamy and Scott Parker to around �16million... more

Britain lends Iceland �2.2bn in deal to pay back investors

20.11.08

Britain has lent Iceland �2.2 billion as part of a deal to compensate savers hit by the Nordic banking collapse... more

Oxford University has �30m stuck in Iceland

16.10.08

The full scale of the Iceland bank crash's impact on British institutions is emerging... more

Iceland exchange opens again but suffers 76% crash

14.10.08

The Reykjavik stock exchange opened in disarray, with its main index crashing 76% on opening... more

Investors have been let down by the watchdogs

10.10.08

A billion pounds of taxpayers� money is frozen in Iceland. Yet all the empty promises should have been exposed by UK regulators and rating agencies... more

Charities beg for Icelandic savings to be protected

10.10.08

An emergency summit between Britain�s leading charities and the Treasury was held as it emerged that voluntary groups are engulfed by the Icelandic banking crisis... more

London councils suffer from Iceland banking crash

09.10.08

London town halls face raising council taxes and cutting spending in the wake of the Icelandic banking crash... more

Attacking style suits boss Burley

09.10.08

Scotland manager George Burley is optimistic Norway's stuttering start to their World Cup qualification campaign can help his own team flourish when they meet at Hampden.... more

Tourist boom expected for Reykjavik as holiday prices plunge by 40 per cent

07.10.08

Iceland has became one of the most affordable holiday destinations overnight after its currency nose-dived following one of the worst days for the world's stock markets... more

200,000 UK savers hit by bank crash

07.10.08

More than 200,000 British savers face a fight for their money after a bank collapsed... more

Icy storm blows through the High Street

03.10.08

With holdings in companies from Iceland to Hamleys, Jon Asgeir Johannesson has forged an empire here. But the Reykjavik entrepreneur could fall victim to the credit crunch... more

Very cold blood in Jar City

11.09.08

Icelandic director Baltasar Korm�kur's Jar City is an atmospheric, fractured but wonderfully weird thriller.... more

Comment: Clarke's recovery route can work for us again

21.08.08

Recession in the air, negative equity, banks with burned fingers, credit still very tight, the pound under pressure and the Chancellor preparing to borrow a billion pounds every week. Welcome back to the 1990s... more