ITV was thrown into turmoil once again as Sir Michael Bishop became the second candidate to rule himself out as its new chairman, and chief operating officer John Cresswell said he will quit in the near future... more
After Sir Crispin Davis saw sense (or was made to) and withdrew his candidature for ITV chairman, there should be no excuse for the beleaguered broadcaster’s board to push on and appoint Sir Michael Bishop... more
RAIL veteran Ian Yeowart is rattling the couplings of Virgin Trains by launching an all-new Great North Western Railways company on Virgin routes into Euston... more
If something good can be salvaged from the Tony Ball saga, in which he is demanding a potential £20 million reward over five years for running ITV, it ought to take the form of a rethink on the use of long-term incentive plans ... more
Have the Lib Dems thought through their plan to tax houses over £1 million? They “might find the definition of a house less than clear-cut”... ... more
It’s a back-handed compliment for George Osborne. Both the Lib-Dems and Labour have identified the chancellor-in-waiting as a target for attack ... more
ITV comes under renewed pressure to appoint a chief executive, amid reports of a boardroom split over a bumper multi-million pound incentive scheme for the leading candidate ... more
SO farewell to Andy Duncan, who has bowed to the inevitable and stepped down as chief executive of Channel 4 before having to face the elite of the British TV industry at the Cambridge Media Convention... more
Just how wide is the opposition to Tony Ball being made ITV's next chief executive within the higher reaches of the broadcaster? Very, is the answer.... more
Senior executives at ITV have launched a desperate last-minute attempt to prevent former BSkyB boss Tony Ball being appointed chief executive of the commercial broadcaster ... more
It's war. KPMG has just nabbed Rentokil’s lucrative contract for internal auditing from arch rival PricewaterhouseCoopers — by offering a 30% discount to the PwC price... more
Royal Bank of Scotland has said a big “thank you” to the British taxpayer with the bailed-out bank’s latest cost-cutting exercise: it has scrapped its deal with British Airways, and has now instructed staff to fly American Airlines... more
Bookmakers, always keen to attract the punters, are hyping this weekend as a £400 million betting bonanza — with the Derby at Epsom, England against Kazakhstan football, the Lions Tour, the Turkish Grand Prix, Twenty20 World Cup Cricket and the opening weekend of Big Brother ... more
On the face of it a 69% fall in annual pre-tax profits or even the slightly more modest 50% drop in underlying profits by Nationwide does not immediately present itself as the strongest argument for mutuality... more
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