BSkyB finance chief takes ?4m exit
Martin Stewart is to quit as BSkyB's chief financial officer, three months after losing out to James Murdoch as head of the satellite company.
Mr Stewart is likely to g...
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Parents 'should pay for schools
Most parents should be made to pay towards their children's schooling, in an extension of the "co-payment" principle used by Tony Blair to justify university top-up fees,...
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Treasury raises price cap on child trust funds
The government is to backtrack on a proposed 1% cap for the charges providers can levy on child trust fund products, which came under much criticism from potential provid...
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Stage frights
Was Charles Dickens the first pop star? That is the comparison drawn in a new exhibition at the Charles Dickens Museum that commemorates the first of his public readings,...
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Venture that nearly failed rescued reputation
Virgin Mobile, the company that resuscitated Richard Branson's business reputation in Britain, has grown at a phenomenal rate. Launched in November 1999, it already has m...
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Jarvis back on the defensive as new problems emerge
Jarvis, a controversial player in the private finance initiative arena, was on the defensive again last night after evidence emerged of late payment, trouble with key con...
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Troubled transfers of United players
Louis Saha
Bought from Fulham for £12.825m, January 2004
Concern over payment of £750,000 to agents and the involvement of Saha's representative Ranko Stojic...
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Banks' Swiss watch on tax haven rules
European Union tax changes are prompting some investors to move their offshore investments in banks, building societies, unit trusts and open-ended investment companies (...
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French health service on verge of collapse, says commission
A government commission has warned that without fundamental reforms France's national health service, rated the best in the world by the World Health Organisation, will c...
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Coppell angered by Goater leak
Steve Coppell is furious that a proposed loan deal taking Reading's striker Shaun Goater to their First Division rivals Ipswich Town was leaked to the press.
The Royals ...
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