Ashley’s antics made a bad situation worse for Debenhams

London Briefing: Headline grabbing shenanigans not so amusing when jobs involved

Not much of a welcome back for Dunkerton at Superdry as shares tumble

London Briefing: the wholesale exodus from the company’s boardroom underlines the scale of the disarray at the group

Wave of Marks & Spencer closures may not be enough to stem decline

Group’s continued underperformance underlines need for radical action

London Briefing: Christmas 2018 one of the toughest for retailers in years

Consumer confidence crumbles and Piers Morgan puts a vegan sausage on the menu

London Briefing: May’s measures for no-deal Brexit prompt air of alarm

Prime minister accused of psychological warfare for ramping up pressure over Brexit

Little Christmas cheer likely for M&S in interim results

M&S results will be in sharp contrast to Primark, which recorded a ‘significant’ increase in its UK market share

Aviva sends Mark Wilson on gardening leave with £6.5m package

London Briefing: Shares in FTSE 100 group promptly gain 2%

A wing and a prayer: Bank of England goes to Farnborough

London Briefing: Glitches foil live feed grilling as Brexit chaos clouds aviation sector

London Briefing: All is not well on the British high street

Third profit warning from Debenhams catches analysts on the hop and sends shares tumbling

Homebase takeover becomes tale of retail disaster

Australian owners write down almost £600m after totally misjudging market

British commuters hit with rail fares hike to add to their misery

London Briefing: News sparked angry reactions from rail unions and consumer groups

Bank of England to apply the brakes on consumer lending

London Briefing: Debt is rocketing so Carney wants banks and borrowers to rein it in

British Airways’ explanations for IT failures far from convincing

Plus: ‘Fred the Shred’ to avoid court appearance over RBS stewardship

Lloyds bank ends long journey out of UK state ownership

London Letter: Treasury books profit of about €580 million on share sales

Noel Edmonds demands £73m compensation over HBOS fraud

British TV presenter claims he suffered ‘deep distress and public humiliation’

May’s pledge to cap energy prices could short-circuit

London Briefing: Prime minister’s bright idea likely to leave voters out of pocket

Barclays boss Jess Staley faces City after whistleblower scandal

London Letter: Scourge of bankers Andrew Tyrie steps down after ‘exhilarating’ career

Election win will clear the way for May’s Brexit vision

London Briefing: The British prime minister’s gamble could pay off nicely for the UK

The Barclays boss and the whistleblower

London Briefing: Punishment needed if Threadneedle Street codes to be enforced

Future looks bleak for shrinking Imagination

London letter: Unless it can compromise with Apple, it may have to call in the lawyers

Insurers count the cost of rising injury payouts

London Briefing: Liz Truss’s shock ruling means personal injury payouts will rise

London briefing: Corbyn calls for a maximum wage to curb fat-cat pay

Other measures to reduce inequality include bosses’ pay based on multiple of workers’ pay

Lloyds buys MBNA credit cards business for £1.9bn

Concerns raised over timing of bailed-out bank’s first major acquisition since crisis

London Briefing: Spread betting faces a tougher future

Financial Conduct Authority’s report shows 82% of customers lose money trading in CDFs

Sorrell nets extra £11m as crackdown on executive pay announced

WPP chief adds to €190m earnings as government publishes proposals for crackdown

Business community on Heathrow expansion: ‘It’s about time’

Green light has been given for construction of third runway at London airport

London Letter: Britain wakes up to realisation that price rises are inevitable

Quite what they thought would happen to cost of imports with pound worth a fifth less is something of a mystery

Body-positive yoga: ‘Wow I didn’t know that fat people can do that’

Jessamyn Stanley isn’t white and she isn’t skinny. She sees neither as a hindrance to her yoga

Asylum seekers self-immolate to reach Australia, says minister

Peter Dutton claims reports of dire conditions in Nauru detention centre are false

‘Only adult in the room’ Carney puts markets on notice

Commercial property trading suspended amid Brexit vote jitters

Timing of UK energy report icing on cake for ‘Big Six’ suppliers

Claim energy providers overcharged customers by £1.7bn a year will likely be dropped

London Briefing: High Street retailers continue to go out of fashion

Outfitters Austin Reed the latest famous name set to disappear

New ‘bank’ may be loving and kind, but it’s also driving up house prices

‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ will lend a €6.3bn this year, according to Legal & General

London briefing: Sorrell pay advertises sense of self-worth

Boss of advertising giant WPP gets his retaliation in early over £70m pay

Will Mike Ashley of Sports Direct really take on Westminster?

The company boss is to appear before MPs to answer questions on working conditions

Tony Hayward, ‘most hated man in America’, seeks a second chance

Five years after Gulf of Mexico disaster, the former BP boss is causing controversy

London Briefing: former Thomas Cook chief Harriet Green awaits £10m bonus

Globetrotting executive tweets as anger mounts over deaths of children in Corfu

M&S expected to report first increase in annual profits in four years

Too early to tell if Marc Bolland’s costly recovery plan finally working

London Briefing: every little helps to reshape history at Tesco

Until now Terry Leahy had appeared happy to maintain a dignified silence on Tesco’s travails

Tesco’s latest profit blows chill wind ahead of Christmas

London Briefing: chief executive Dave Lewis declines to put timetable on recovery plan

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