Does Kate Robertson, co-founder of One Young World and chairman of Havas agency Euro RSCG Worldwide, have regrets about hiring Andy Coulson as a consultant to her global conference for future world leaders?... more
Reading manager cannot wait to walk out at Wembley after a career of missed opportunities when it comes to taking centre stage at the home of football... more
So much for the Osama bin Laden death rally. The FTSE 100 lost early gains to trade down 7.02 points at 6062.88 today, as reprisal fears, the worst manufacturing numbers in seven months and a miserable outlook from Britain's shopkeepers weighed on investors' minds... more
Shock in ad land as David Jones, a British advertising executive who worked closely with David Cameron, has landed the top job at French giant Havas... more
David Jones, a British advertising executive who worked closely with David Cameron, is promoted to the top job at French advertising group Havas... more
Whatever you think of the way Richard Keys and Andy Gray left Sky, they carried weight on the Sky Sports channels and their Super Sunday and Monday Night Football gigs will require reliable, proven faces to make them work... more
A Northern Rock finance chief under investigation in a Financial Services Authority inquiry into mortgage figure manipulation leaves the nationalised bank... more
Goalkeeper admits Tottenham lack concentration when playing the Premier League’s lesser teams and fears it will cost them a place in next season’s Champions League... more
Troubled leisurewear retailer JJB Sports today said its £100 million rights issue is back on track — and revealed that it is paying bankers £6 million to get the deal away
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JJB Sports is insistent. The rumours circulating about its chairman — involving curious payments from Swiss bank accounts — are “highly defamatory”, “malicious” and “vicious”.
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JJB Sports delayed a lifesaving £100 million fund-raiser after some investors withheld their backing because of speculation that a Sunday newspaper would be making damaging allegations about the chairman... more
JJB Sports boss Sir David Jones branded Mike Ashley’s Sports Direct chain and the flagship Piccadilly Circus store Lillywhites in particular “a complete and utter tragedy” as half-year losses at his own sportswear chain soared 230% from £13.9 million to £42.9 million... more
Shellsuit billionaire Mike Ashley is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office today, accused of price fixing and operating a sports retail cartel with former boss of JJB Chris Ronnie
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JJB founder Dave Whelan has waded into the spat between the company's chairman Sir David Jones and Newcastle United's billionaire owner Mike Ashley... more
Mike Ashley looks set to crank up the row at JJB Sports over his controversial £1.5 million loan to the company’s executive chairman Sir David Jones
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The crisis at JJB Sports over a £1.5 million loan to its chairman Sir David Jones from rival retail tycoon Mike Ashley deepened today, as it emerged that Jones had not disclosed the affair to five of his six fellow directors ... more
War has broken out between JJB Sports and Sports Direct, after allegations appeared to smear the former’s chief executive Sir David Jones in an attempt to derail the retailer’s plans to raise cash in the City
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The City gave an initial lukewarm response to the Chancellor's Pre-Budget Report in which he blamed the recession on unprecedented circumstances within the global economy... 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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