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Once he joins, Marc Bolland's to-do list will have a familiar theme – find trendier clothes and younger customersYou would think that the soundtrack to the Sir Stuart Rose years at Marks & Spencer would be something by Frank Sinatra. After all, the record shows he took the blows and did it his way.But M&S's charismatic boss (Read More)
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Nurseries are imposing fines of up to £300 an hour on people who don't pick up their children on time, says Sam Dunn, but many parents think that's a good ideaStruggling parents are being hit with fines of up to £300 an hour for late collection of their children from nurseries. Designed to stop parents from exploiting priva (Read More)
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Despite growing optimism that the downturn is over, there are concerns that £100bn of property bank loans requiring refinancing within three years could trigger another crisisThe new property vehicle of Sir Stuart Lipton and Elliott Bernerd lost £101m last year in a serious blow to the veteran tycoons and their wealthy back (Read More)
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As tax havens increasingly co-operate with international law, Haiti's 'Baby Doc' Duvalier is the latest to have his money seizedIt is 23 years since "Baby Doc" Duvalier was forced out of power in Haiti; but in the next few weeks, a court in Lausanne, Switzerland will decide whether the kleptocratic dictator can finally get (Read More)
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Despite a relationship spanning decades, RBS did not tell the chocolate maker of its planned defection until the eleventh hourRoyal Bank of Scotland failed until the eleventh hour to inform long-standing client Cadbury it had decided to offer its backing to US rival Kraft, which has launched a hostile £9.8bn bid for the Bri (Read More)
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Share issue will cost the taxpayer another £5.8bnLloyds Banking Group is this week expected to announce the terms of its record-breaking £13.5bn cash call on investors. The share issue will require the taxpayer to pump an extra £5.8bn into the bank.The bank, which has more private investors – 2.8m – than any other stock mar (Read More)
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Tightening the law on stolen data could ensnare journalists as well as crimes such as the T-Mobile scandalSo what is "the public interest"? Philosophical tangles don't come much knottier in a world where this defence of journalism's essential freedom is always under siege. Remember last week's T-Mobile scandal, where staff (Read More)
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Supreme court will rule on Wednesday whether account-holders charged for going into the red can seek compensationMore than one million banking customers will come a step closer this week to learning whether they will be able to claim back charges they paid for unauthorised overdrafts.On Wednesday, the supreme court will han (Read More)
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After the success of Steve McQueen and Sam Taylor-Wood, the UK Film Council aims to fund debuts by a new crop of artists turned film-makersFirst came Turner prize-winner Steve McQueen's gritty film Hunger, about the IRA prisoner Bobby Sands. Full of soul-searching and menace, it was the toast of the Cannes film festival las (Read More)
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Film and biographies mark 250th anniversary of passionate 'Ode to Joy' poetHe is the "rebel from Arcadia", the author of the lyrics to the modern European anthem, Ode to Joy, and a passionate champion of free spirits. But for some time Germany seemed to forget all about the man who was arguably the country's most famous Rom (Read More)
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Villagers say visitors to delta are a threat to wildlife and their fishing industryMusic, dancing and smiling platitudes greeted the royal guest in the fishing village of Samochima, northern Botswana. But cutting through the convivial mood was a cry of anguish – and a plea for a way of life threatened by tourism in the worl (Read More)
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A British security consultant who was paid £300,000 to assist efforts by Kate and Gerry McCann to find their daughter Madeleine is being sought by the FBI over an alleged £1.3m fraud.A £500,000 contract given to Kevin Halligen's private detective agency, Oakley International, to help with the search for the missing child wa (Read More)
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Biogas sourced from food waste and sewage is to piped into British homes under a new 'green gas' tariffRotting leftovers, wilted salad and even sewage are to provide a new source of "green gas" to heat our homes.From today, British householders will be able to register for Ecotricity's new tariff to buy green gas – commonly (Read More)
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M&S is one of the few remaining national treasures, which is why its new chief will find running it a high-wire actWhen Marc Bolland moves from Wm Morrison to take up the reins as new chief executive of M&S in February, he'd better be prepared for a level of exposure that he won't have experienced in Bradford. No disrespect (Read More)
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If the new chief executive is unsure which way to take the brand beloved of Middle England, he has only to ask Mrs Johnston of Chipping CampdenA few years ago, I went shopping with a woman called Annette Johnston. For most of her life, Mrs Johnston, the wife of a retired professor of surgery from Chipping Campden, had bough (Read More)
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