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Review: Robert Guediguian’s Army of Crime

Share this with your friends! With the images from Robert Guediguian’s Army of Crime recurring in my dreams several weeks after I first saw it, it is time to write a review. Guediguian, son of a German mother and an Armenian father, is best ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, T5M.com,  16 Nov 2009

Lloyds facing £54m tax bill after HBOS ruling

Lloyds Banking Group has failed in its latest attempt to avoid a £54m tax bill. Photograph: Graeme Robertson Lloyds Banking Group, which is 43% state-owned, has failed in its latest attempt to avoid a £54m tax bill. In April, Britain's first-tier tax ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, Guardian Unlimited,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: HBOS

Footsie rises for third day, lifted by property developers

Property developers and energy stocks helped lift the FTSE 100 index this afternoon, its third consecutive day of gains. On a quiet day for corporate news, British Land was one of the biggest risers ahead of results next Tuesday, up 13.5p to 498.2p, a ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, Comment Is Free,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: FTSE,  Hammerson,  Great Portland Estates,  BG Group plc,  Dow Jones

Kraft launches £9.8bn hostile bid for Cadbury

Kraft Foods went hostile in its pursuit of Cadbury today when it launched a formal takeover offer worth £9.8bn that appears unlikely to win over the British company's board. The American food giant, whose brands range from Toblerone to Philadelphia and ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Kraft Foods Inc.

Grayson Perry, the chronicler of modern life

Share this with your friends! He must have had so much fun when he made this! I said to my friend when I saw Grayson Perry’s purple Print for a Politician at his latest show at the Victoria Miro Gallery. The star of the show is undoubtedly ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, T5M.com,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Norman Foster,  Tesco P.L.C.,  William Morris,  Madonna,  Starbucks Corp

Gold hits record high

Gold hit $1,108.05 an ounce this morning Photograph: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters The dollar came under pressure after Friday's worse-than-expected US jobless data and the G20 meeting at the weekend reinforced expectations that American interest rates will ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: G-20

Vacuum cleaner tycoon Sir James Dyson doles out £45m among children

Sir James Dyson, who pioneered the bagless vacuum cleaner and recently developed a desk fan without blades, has given £45m to his three children. Each of them has received £15m from a shares deal, which also netted £105m for the billionaire businessman ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, Guardian Unlimited,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: James Dyson,  Bill Gates,  Microsoft Corporation

BA announces £292m first-half loss

Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off Revenues fell 13.7% in the six months to the end of September. The airline has slashed costs and said there would be further structural change in the second half to ensure the long-term future of ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, Guardian Unlimited,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: British Airways

Manufacturing output jumps by 1.7% in September

• Best month-on-month result since 2002 outstrips forecasts • Factories boost production after August shutdowns British factory output surprisingly rose at its fastest rate in seven years in September, boosting hopes of economic recovery. Manufacturing ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Office for National Statistics,  Alan Clarke,  BNP Paribas

New car sales up 31% on last year

Car sales are expected to grow further in the final two months of the year, ending 2009 at an estimated 1.928m units A total of 168,942 new cars were registered in October, up 31.6% from a year ago, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) ...

From JULIA KOLLEWE, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lord Mandelson,  Ford Motor Company

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