So Sir Richard Branson may finally be about to get his hands on Northern Rock. It has been a long time coming. The bearded entrepreneur - or at least the people he has running his financial services arm - has had to wait four years to get this close again... more
Virgin Atlantic pilots have set a Monday deadline for boss Sir Richard Branson to settle their pay dispute or face a crippling series of strikes.... more
Lord Mandelson is fully entitled to tout his services on the after-dinner circuit, but his obsequious praise for his hosts at a dinner held by Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund has raised a few eyebrows... more
In less than two weeks, Sir Richard Branson will celebrate his 60th birthday. That’s right: the seemingly permanently youthful Virgin billionaire will be able to collect his bus pass... more
Kitchen porter at one of Britain’s leading public schools arrested for allegedly trying to poison hundreds of pupils by putting bleach in their soup... more
Which would you prefer to bank with? Sir Richard Branson's Virgin, Sir Terry Leahy's Tesco, the taxpayer-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland or shareholder-owned Barclays or HSBC?... more
THE New Economics Foundation report on how bankers destroy wealth (A Bit Rich: Calculating the real value to society of different professions) has received much press coverage... more
Video: Sir Richard Branson's love of Formula One today resulted in one of the world's richest men throwing the full weight of the Virgin brand behind one of the sport's new teams... more
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic posted a near-doubling of pre-tax profits to £68.4 million, up from £34.8 million the year before, just days after British Airways totted up losses of £401 million ... more
When Sir Richard Branson announced Virgin’s Formula 1 sponsorship last month, he said one of his companies has developed a clean fuel that he hopes to introduce to Grand Prix cars. But it turns out Branson’s plan is not as simple as that...
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Virgin Group is preparing for a return to the mortgage market and wants to obtain a licence to become a High Street bank, billionaire founder Sir Richard Branson has revealed... more
Transport: Sir Richard Branson has begun lobbying to take control of train services out of King’s Cross and win Virgin Trains a monopoly on fast intercity trains to the North and Scotland... more
Pass the tissues. In his new book, Business Stripped Bare, Sir Richard Branson, tells, sob, how he was foiled in his ambition to buy Northern Rock, sob... more
Profile: The BBC's business editor Robert Peston landed blockbuster scoops with the HBOS takeover and Northern Rock but his rivals don't always take kindly to his style... more
Aviation: Sir Richard Branson outlines plans to build a consortium of airlines and outside investors to launch a £2 billion bid for Gatwick Airport... more
Sir Richard Branson is to return as biggest shareholder of Aussie airline Virgin Blue, after a decision to spin off the carrier by majority owner Toll Holdings transport group... more
In Rabbit Fever, women the world over are hooked on the Rampant Rabbit sex toy and as a full-length mockumentary film it isn't long before the vaguely Freudian gag wears pretty thin.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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