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WH Smith on move with travel shops

15.10.09

Newsagent and bookseller WH Smith today said its roll-out of mini-stores in airports, hospitals and offices helped it post an 8% rise in annual pre-tax profit, which hit �82 million ... more

Finding a copy of your free Evening Standard

12.10.09

Your London Evening Standard is now available through more than 500 retailers in an effort to meet overwhelming demand since it became a free newspaper... more

Insider case that reveals the City�s rotten culture

09.10.09

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L&G is bolstered by vote of confidence from Goldman

21.08.09

Legal & General is being overlooked by investors. That�s according to Goldman Sachs, which today restated its buy case for L&G, pushing the life insurer to the top of the Footsie winners board ... more

Cheques to be stubbed out as more businesses snub them

17.07.09

The death of the cheque is imminent. A third of UK businesses will stop using them to pay bills in the next 12 months, and 11% will refuse cheques as payment, according to research ... more

Dawson's decline is Smiths News' gain

16.07.09

Newspapers and magazines distributor Smiths News is bucking the recession with a 7.1% rise in group revenues in recent months, thanks in part to the inexorable decline of smaller rival Dawson ... more

WHSmith sorry for Josef Fritzl Father's Day promotion

19.06.09

High street chain WH Smith apologises after promoting a book on cellar rapist Josef Fritzl as a Father's Day gift... more

Triumph or disaster � the thrill of the first night

12.06.09

With Ph�dre opening at the National Theatre last night and The King and I this weekend, one actor involved gives an insider�s view of �staring into the abyss� ... more

Smiths� sales brought to book by downturn in air travel

04.06.09

Less busy airports as people cut back on holidays and business travel have made life tough for books, newspaper and stationery retailer WH Smith ... more

Triple cheer engineers a big leap for Babcock shares

12.05.09

A triple helping of good news put the spark into Babcock International today... more

Salute to Ballard and his grim hinterlands

24.04.09

"Oh to be in England, now that April's here." There's a unique feeling - part-pleasurable, part-sad - about arriving back into a London airport after you've been away for a fortnight or so. I think it has to do with the architecture... more

Russian duel as Gazprom launches rival bid for Sibir

23.04.09

Shares of Sibir Energy remained suspended at 176�p, where they have been since February... more

Don�t tax fat people who scoff chocs � laugh at them

13.03.09

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WH Smith on target for �79m despite slip in sales

26.01.09

Retail: WH Smith today admitted it has finally caught the flu that has afflicted its sector for months... more

Collapse of supplier is sour note for WHS

30.12.08

Retail: WH Smith has run out of swathes of CDs and DVDs at its stores as the High Street continues to suffer from the collapse of Woolworths... more

Bad blood among top shopkeepers on the High St

28.11.08

Retailers slashing prices in an attempt to prise open the nation's wallets is not well-liked at all by ballsier rivals... more

Get a life, you lovers of misery memoirs

21.11.08

Constance Briscoe, the author of the misery memoir Ugly, is being sued for libel by her mother, Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, who says it's fiction... more

WH Smith shrugs off slump on High Street

09.10.08

Retail: WH Smith reports a 15% leap in profits despite falling sales on the High Street and growing fears over the state of the economy... more

Literary Life

08.10.08

Celebrity sells at an astonishing rate, yet at its heart the UK still loves a book for itself and London is a great champion of literature. These are the people who keep us reading. ... more

Save a small bookshop � it could change your world

12.09.08

I grew up in a home without books. There were a few Reader's Digest compendiums, some never-read Dickens and a set of Swallows and Amazons but not much more. Yet it is books that have shaped my life... more

ITV shares pumped up by Big Brother bid talk

12.08.08

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Fencing's got a buzz about it

31.07.08

Standard Sport reporter James Olley gets to the point as he continues to try his hand at events Britain hopes to shine in... more

Foes, as well as friends, must have justice

19.06.08

This week, two obtuse and fanatical London Muslims who manifestly hate the West witnessed great British justice... more

'Lyrical terrorist' has conviction quashed

17.06.08

Former Heathrow shop assistant Samina Malik, who called herself the "lyrical terrorist", won her appeal against conviction... more

WHSmith glides through gloom with Swann at helm

05.06.08

Store's �1.25million-a-year boss appears to be driving it through the turmoil on the High Street... more

Borders starts Paperchase for �50m retailer

16.05.08

Paperchase, the stationery retailer owned by US books giant Borders, has been put up for sale with a price tag of around £50 million... more

Only a few bright spots on High Street as hard times hit stores

01.05.08

Even in hard times, retailers with innovative ideas can still flourish... more

WH Smith suffers on High Street but thrives in travel

17.04.08

Sales continue to fall at newspaper, books and stationery retailer WH Smith... more

Jordan the buxom mermaid makes a splash at book signing

10.04.08

There's very little Jordan won't do in the name of publicity, and her latest appearance at a London book signing is a rather colourful case in point. The star arrived at Waterstone's in Harrods dressed as an eye-popping mermaid, complete with flowing black tresses and a pink fishtail skirt in her most fanciful fashion ensemble to date... more

Dressed-down Jordan and her boring bra

19.02.08

Model Jordan was a shadow of her former glamorous self as she promoted her latest autobiography in Edinburgh showcasing the ultimate fashion faux pas - a white bra shining through under a dowdy black jumper ... more