28 Sep 2007
An auction to set the pulses racing of every plane-mad small boy trapped in a grown-ups body takes place in Toulouse. A hoard of spare parts and what the salerooms call ephemera collected from the what was the French homebase of the old Concorde jet is to go under the hammer there this afternoon.
28 Sep 2007
The UK rag trade has produced more than its fair share of characters and Peter Simon the founder of Monsoon is certainly one. Today he’s announced – yet again – that he wishes to take the listed company private. Simon appears to have regretted floating his baby - which he started way back in the clearing...
28 Sep 2007
| by Richard Reeves
With the stark realities of global warming ever more evident, the public is fixated on finding sustainable ways of living and consuming.
28 Sep 2007
| by Andrew Davidson
As head these 15 years of Business In The Community, a lobbying body that cajoles big business into social engagement, she wields her incorrigible charm and relentless focus to tap the influence of the mighty - up to and including Prince Charles. Which scares some off ...
28 Sep 2007
It's not pretty, exactly, but proves that being good isn't synonymous with being ugly. Sathnam Sanghera reports.
27 Sep 2007
It’s not often us journalists get to take the moral high ground. That is until estate agents come along. Then even we get to unleash the wagging finger at wave it at them, the only people who regularly rank below us in surveys of trustworthy people.
27 Sep 2007
When people are feeling a little low, they often turn to a spot of retail therapy to give them a lift. Major airlines are apparently no different, as beleaguered BA has shown with its multi-billion pound order for a load of new planes.
27 Sep 2007
Anyone using Google today (and that’ll probably be a fair few of you) may notice the sweets cascading from the search engine’s logo. That’s because the uber-trendy internet brand is celebrating its ninth birthday. As a present to itself it is getting a makeover, at least in Europe.
27 Sep 2007
It’s shaping up to be a vintage few months in national politics, what with the ‘will he, won’t he’ speculation over Gordon Brown’s timing of the general election, and today’s news that bicycling bumbler Boris Johnson will be taking on Ken ‘The newt fancier’s newt fancier’ Livingstone in the ballot for...
26 Sep 2007
News that’s guaranteed to confuse almost anyone over the age of 40 – video game Halo 3 has racked up more than £84m in sales in its first 24 hours on release, with people queuing in the street for hours for a copy of the ‘fantasy-science fiction shoot-em-up’. Even more confusing to us more mature types,...