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For sale: Three UK banks surplus to requirements

03.11.09
Banking analysis: The Government wants to create three new High Street banks to increase competition in the UK - and today it finally became clear what these banks might look like... more

RBS shares in a tumble as it feels the pain of break-up

02.11.09
Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland tumbled by as much as 17% today after it admitted its break-up ordered by European regulators will be more painful than feared ... more

Comment: More car boot sale than glamorous auction

02.11.09
Does the European Commission watch Strictly Come Dancing? Because if they did, they might appreciate the two steps forward, one step back nature of what is actually being imposed on the UK this week d ... more

Buyers line up for quick £1.5bn sale of Northern Rock's 'best bits'

28.10.09
Northern Rock, the bank which triggered the financial crisis in Britain, could be sold before the general election in the biggest shake-up of the banking system for years... more

Spyware woes for BlackBerry in UAE

30.07.09
Mobile phone users are accustomed to rogue emails and text messages, claiming to be from their phone company, but actually containing nasty software from a nefarious third party. What they’re not so used to is getting nasty stuff from the phone company itself.. ... more

LATEST NEWS: Profit soars at Virgin Atlantic

26.05.09
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

Disarming transport boss who won't be derailed by £1 billion crisis

20.05.09
Former regulator Richard Bowker sees a sea change in government attitudes to rail investment - but still faces a huge drop in passengers... more

Branson’s clean fuel headache with Formula 1

27.04.09
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... ... more

It's uncanny how police axe HQ after Iceland woe

31.03.09
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Virgin train passenger revenues hit the buffers

16.03.09
Virgin Trains users have voted with their feet as the main inter-city service from London to Birmingham, Manchester and Glasgow became the first rail company to admit to falling passenger revenues... more

Virgin eyes a return to mortgage market

09.03.09
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

Bowker looks lonely at top of National Express

24.02.09
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Honda yet to find 'serious' buyer for team

23.02.09
Formula One: Honda admitted today they have yet to find a "serious buyer" to save the Formula One team... more

Virgin F1 bid could save the season for Button

18.02.09
Formula One: Honda have confirmed that Richard Branson’s Virgin Group had bid for the team, giving Jenson Button a glimmer of hope that he could be on the Formula One grid this season... more

Branson has eye on the East Coast Line

03.02.09
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

Stelios and Branson team up for Gatwick bid

14.11.08
Two of Britain's most colourful entrepreneurs, Sir Richard Branson and Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, are attempting to put a consortium of Gatwick airlines together to buy London's second major airport... more

Why Hank’s way too busy for Gordon

26.09.08
Is there anything more pathetic than Gordon Brown’s trip to America?... more

How Branson’s Rock dream ended in tears

25.09.08
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

Revealing nature of the Beeb’s flourishing tall poppy

24.09.08
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

Branson lays out plan for airlines to buy Gatwick

02.09.08
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

EC probe is launched into BA's 3-way tie-up

29.08.08
European anti-monopoly authorities today launched a probe into British Airways' planned tie-up with American Airlines and Spanish carrier Iberia... more

BA seals its tie-up with American and Iberia

14.08.08
British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh has signed his controversial tie-up with American Airlines and declared he was convinced monopoly regulators would give it the green light... more

Canary Wharf outwits City to lure JPMorgan

05.08.08
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Holly Branson quits medicine to work for her billionaire father

28.07.08
Sir Richard Branson’s daughter has abandoned a career in medicine to join his business empire. ... more

Holly Branson quits medicine to work for her father

28.07.08
Sir Richard Branson's daughter has abandoned a career in medicine to join his business empire... more

Branson back as Aussie top dog

14.07.08
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

Would you sell a bank to Richard Branson? Why the Virgin tycoon lost out in the Northern Rock collapse

16.06.08
In a compelling new book, the Mail's City Editor ALEX BRUMMER reveals the incompetence, greed and recklessness that caused this crisis.... more

Richard Branson warns of rail route meltdown

23.05.08
Sir Richard Branson warns that his rail services out of Euston to Birmingham, Manchester and beyond are on the verge of meltdown... more

Virgin holds talks with DIC over expansion in the Gulf

02.04.08
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group is reportedly in talks with Dubai International Capital... more

Freudian gag wears thin

21.09.06
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

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