The death last week of former gaming czar Cyril Stein brings back memories for older readers: taking over a smallish betting business from his uncle Max, Stein built Ladbrokes up to be the dominant force in British gaming in the 1970s. ... more
Two of the City’s biggest players are at war over the future of British record label EMI. And the ‘commercial trial of the decade’ will be played out not here but in a New York courtroom... more
Entrepreneurs: Former West End theatre producer Phil Cameron's portfolio of paid-for posh airport lounges in Gatwick, Stansted and New York is paying off... more
Global efforts to improve airline security after the failed Detroit Christmas Day bombing send shares in London scanning firm Smiths Group to a 16-month high... more
Anti-aviation activists will help residents around Heathrow airport barricade their homes and resist compulsory purchase orders to block construction of a third runway... more
So is it victory? Sensational weekend reports that the British Airports Authority has abandoned its bid for a third runway at Heathrow remain unconfirmed, and indeed denied by the company... more
Restrictions on taking liquids on planes introduced after the terror plot to blow up transatlantic airliners could be eased if trials of new scanners prove successful... more
British Airports Authority is in talks to become a sponsor of the Olympics in a deal that would confirm Heathrow as the gateway to the 2012 Games... more
I couldn't be happier to learn the British Airports Authority is to have a few of its sweaty fingers peeled off the levers of control in the form of a forced sale of three airports. ... more
The Bank of England looms over the City like a vast cheese-mould, full of economists, who are the mites in the cheese. This is not their best moment... more
Staff blunders during the early days of Heathrow's Terminal 5 allowed international passengers to enter the country without going through vital security checks... more
Last April we sent a reporter to Heathrow to investigate the disastrous opening of its new terminus. Here he returns to find out if it will cope with this weekend's exodus... more
British Airways bosses admit the opening of Heathrow's Terminal 5 should have been delayed because building work and testing had not been completed... more
The day I flew out of Terminal 5 bound for Paris is a day I would gladly forget. I was with Sara Fox, an American project director known as the "Queen of the Gherkin" for delivering that iconic building on time and on budget. The plan was that she would cast her forensic eye over every detail of the £4.3 billion Terminal 5 on behalf of the Evening Standard... 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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