The Sunday Times Rich List is out. We've picked over the top 50 to find out which UK entrepreneurs are defying the recession to rise through the ranks of the fabulously wealthy.
He hasn't earned the nickname 'O'Really?' for nothing. The controversial Ryanair boss has defied a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority banning the use of sexy pictures in ads for the airline's charity calendar.
The 2012 list of superbrands is out and half of the most well-loved and respected brands in the top 20 are British. How awfully lovely!
30 Nov 2011
| by MT Staff
From fighter jets to 'battlespace visualisation' technology, these are the high-flyers of the aero-engineering and defence sectors.
The defence firm has been fined £50m by the US government, this time for flouting export rules. Although its antics don't seem to have stopped it picking up work.
10 Sep 2010
"Personally, I wouldn't trust 'O'Really' to tell me the price of a seat on his own airline, but to be fair his position does have the support of such intellectual heavyweights as Nick Griffin, Sarah Palin and George W Bush." - Greenpeace activist Joss Garman takes a dim view of Micheal O'Leary's assertion...