Business News

The former head of Britain's audit watchdog is being lined up as the next chairman of high street billionaire Mike Ashley's London-listed retail empire.
Typhoo Tea is preparing to enter administration after 120 years in business, amid declining sales and mounting debts.
The government has drafted in City lawyers to scrutinise a proposed rescue deal for Harland & Wolff, the shipyard-owner which built the Titanic.
Anyone who has tried to get a mortgage while being self-employed probably won't look back fondly on the memory.
Labour has come into power and the economy is shrinking.
The UK economy grew by 0.1% between July and September, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
When Gordon Brown delivered his first Mansion House speech as chancellor he caused a stir by doing so in a lounge suit, rather than the white tie and tails demanded by convention.
Air traffic control chaos that struck British airlines last summer was made worse by delays in verifying a password for an engineer working from home, an inquiry has found.
Two of Britain's biggest independent fibre broadband networks have been holding talks about a combination that would value the enlarged entity at several hundred million pounds.
With just under six weeks to go to Christmas Day, the countdown has officially begun, with all the big brands rolling out their seasonal adverts.

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