Ikea is building its first British housing development in Stratford beside the Olympic Park, where it plans to turn Londoners into eco-families... more
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is close to a deal to buy a vast site next to the Olympic Park that would rival the athletes' village and boost the legacy of the Games area... more
When most people move house and struggle to find decent furniture, they spend a few weeks moaning about the parking policy at Ikea or the prices at John Lewis, then forget about it... more
Pick Me Up allows you to see artists at work, try their techniques and buy original prints and drawings for little more than a mass-produced print in Ikea... more
Shoppers have finally realised that Scandinavia is about more than just Ikea and meatballs. West End retailers are reporting a big surge in sales of products from the region... more
City Spy has already reported one suggestion to fill the pension deficit — by using the profits of commercial arm BBC Worldwide, which makes more than £100 million a year. And staff like it
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Downing Street has been transformed — no longer Labour’s ‘unhappy house at No 10’, it now buzzes with the key figures of clan Cameron and the Coalition, as Anne McElvoy reports... more
Philip Pullman is getting hate mail from Christians, apparently, warning that the royalty on his new book, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, will be “eternal damnation"... more
City Comment: On the day that President Obama delivered his knockout blow to the banks, I was meeting a senior City figure. We both admitted to being totally perplexed by the banks — how intelligent people should get it so hopelessly wrong... more
The economic crisis will take a further hard toll on staff at Ikea worldwide, with massive further job cuts in the pipeline, the group’s billionaire founder said today ... more
It is normally the scene of real-life domestic dramas about buying self-assembly furniture. But tonight the Ikea store in Wembley will be staging an opera.... more
A series of eyebrow-raising expenses claims by unnamed MPs are revealed today. They include claims for carrier bags, sweets and kitchen accessories - and even pet food and horse manure... more
It's a brave writer who makes optimistic predictions in this climate, but there is a hint that, unlike the stock and housing markets, the antiques market may not be collapsing... more
Dutch police have arrested seven people suspected of preparing a terrorist attack in Amsterdam, including a relative of one of the attackers who died in the 2004 bombings in Madrid... more
The High Street was in crisis as the collapse in consumer confidence, the drying-up of bank lending and the looming end-of-the-month quarterly rent payments sent three groups crashing into administration... more
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