But the expectation is that even companies which have so far resisted cutting bonuses, such as Standard Life and Prudential, may be forced to reduce payouts.. Abbey National, the mortgage bank, yesterday moved to attract more than one million customers from its larger rivals by introducing a current account with a market-leading interest rate of [...]

He expressed doubts as to whether they were innocent or not.”Fr Daly is, however, dismayed that the members of the Parachute Regiment succeeded in their appeal against a summons to attend the tribunal in person “I have no anger against them, that disappeared long ago. I have no anxiety to see them prosecuted or anything [...]

I don’t mean by this simply that what they say is so vague as to be useless (though that’s true). I mean that what people want from horoscopes is the tingle of possibility. Here, too, there’s a kind of genius – or perhaps cunning would be a better word. Conventional commercial wisdom has it that [...]

Some might detect hubris in the expansionist plans of Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who wants to buy 75 new planes to cope with the runaway success of his low-cost airline easyJet. His plans are reminiscent of Harry Goodman’s Air Europe, which placed the biggest aircraft order in commercial aviation history a decade ago and then promptly went [...]

A spokesman said the Chancellor had not been personally called before the MPs but that Mr Smith had received the summons “It is not a Treasury matter. It would be pretty ridiculous for a Treasury minister to go along to a select committee to comment on another minister’s work,” a Treasury spokesman said.The Treasury has [...]

In the Seventies he formed his own label, UK Records, and had hits on it with 10cc and others. In 1973, he was named producer of the year, and in 1975 he won record of the year for his rendition of Una Paloma Blanca.He started doing reports from the US on Top of the Pops [...]