Labour loans - why should we pay?
I made a serious mistake in 1993. As a lifelong Labour supporter, and caught up with the prevalent concern that Labour could never win again, I suspended a promise to mys...
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Private firms get ?73m windfall in hospital deal
Banks and property developers made windfall profits of £73m by refinancing one of the Labour government's first privately financed hospitals, the 989-bed Norfolk and...
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FSA brokers ?194m split caps indemnity
The Financial Services Authority has brokered a £194m compensation fund for 40,000 investors who lost money in split capital trusts.
While dropping its investigati...
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ICI rises above crude crisis
ICI, the speciality chemicals maker, made an unexpected appearance on the FTSE 100 leaderboard yesterday after one of its two brokers put the stock back on its "buy" list...
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Leeds turn to fans for ?10m
Leeds United's new board is to turn to the club's supporters in an attempt to raise more than £10m of fresh capital to help refinance the ailing club.
In the first...
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Strategic gamble which saw a mogul meet his Waterloo
It is a fair assumption that for Lord Black of Crossharbour, chairman of Hollinger, the newspaper empire stretching from the Chicago Sun-Times to the Jerusalem Post, the ...
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Director quits with Spurs short of ?20m
Concern about the financial position of Tottenham Hotspur escalated yesterday after the sudden departure of the the Premiership club's finance director, Paul Viner, only ...
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Reasons to be cheerful
After three years of unrelenting gloom it is not surprising that market operators and corporate financiers are trying to talk things up. Every piece of "good news" is app...
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Shareholder democracy is now not so remote
The TUC has been running around trying to name and shame institutional fund managers who fail to use their votes to impose good corporate governance standards at the comp...
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City raises Wembley loan doubts
WestLB's commitment to its £757m loan to rebuild Wembley stadium was back in the spotlight after yesterday's upheaval at the bank.
Wembley was one of the high prof...
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