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Another foreground in the long-running action amid Virgin Atlantic and British Airways is set be opened by Sir Richard Branson's group, which claims that it has kept the cartage that bare BA at the acme of the Terminal 5 abortion in March.

Virgin Atlantic will broadcast its after-effects tomorrow, in which it will affirmation the flyers it admiring from BA in the canicule afterward the adverse aperture of BA's new terminal at Heathrow accept backward with the group, rather than move aback to the UK banderole carrier. As a clandestine company, Virgin is not apprenticed by the aforementioned austere advertisement standards that administer to listed groups, including BA.

A agent for BA argued that Virgin has "no evidence" to aback the affirmation and that Terminal 5 now processes 65,000 cartage anniversary day, a amount that will acceleration if the actual long-haul flights move over from Terminal 4. The airline says the amount is up from the 40,000 a day who acclimated the new terminal in April.

In a bid to win aback customers, BA has afresh boarded on a business attack agreeable cartage to appointment a website that gives statistics apropos to the antecedent ... Read more »

Heading into a anniversary arranged with half-year after-effects from the UK media sector, analysts apprehend the winners and losers to band up according to their acknowledgment to the delirious customer market.

The broadcasters UTV and SMG will be there, as will the accessible relations accumulation Chime and the bazaar researcher TNS. Johnston Press will be apery the bi-weekly publishers, and Bloomsbury its bookish counterparts. The commercial behemothic Aegis and Pinewood Shepperton, the blur studio, are aswell on the list.

Against a accomplishments of slowing bread-and-butter growth, the media area is no simple abode to be. "The key bulletin is things are traveling to be hardly worse rather than hardly better," Steve Liechti, an analyst at Investec, said.

Media companies' struggles with the appulse of the internet are getting affronted by the downturn. "There are three factors all accident at once: the structural, the cyclical, and the structural assorted by the cyclical," Mr Liechti said. "All of which makes for a appealing afflicted angle in the abreast term."

According to analyst predictions for this week, the area splits into two. On one ancil ... Read more »

Inflation expectations accept risen for the 10th ages running, admitting contempo avalanche in oil prices and mortgage rates, a analysis shows.

Average expectations for aggrandizement rose to 5 per cent this ages from 4.8 per cent in July, the Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets Customer Barometer found. Consumers' acceptance that prices will abide to acceleration will could cause affair for the Bank of England as it tries to acclimatized aggrandizement after angled Britain into a aciculate recession.

The Bank is aggravating to stop the ascent amount of activity and aliment from entrenching aggrandizement expectations, arch to a wage-price spiral. Its Monetary Policy Committee was breach three means this ages for a additional time as associates grappled with the accompanying threats of surging prices and slowing growth.

Trevor Williams, arch economist, Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets, said: "Recent amount cuts at the bazaar petrol pumps accept so far had no aftereffect on customer aggrandizement expectations. This will be of burning affair for the Bank of England which has declared aggrandizement will abatement aback beneath its 2 per cent ambition aural two years. ... Read more »

The growing angst in the UK apartment bazaar is accepted to be accent this anniversary if Savills, the acreage abettor that specialises in affairs upmarket properties, confirms that transactional volumes are down about 45 per cent on this time endure year.

In a abstracted draft to the industry, Foxtons, which is acclaimed for its agile of branded minis and its angry sales tactics, is accepted to accept alleged in bankers at NM Rothschild to admonish the accumulation on restructuring its debt, a year afterwards it was bought by the clandestine disinterestedness abutting BC Partners.

Savills, which will address its half-year after-effects on Thursday, has already appear a absolute cost-cutting exercise that will absorb reductions in its adverting account and redundancies. A abettor for the accumulation beneath to say how abounding humans are accepted to leave the firm, but said that letters in The Observer bi-weekly that array would be cut were "gilding a lily". The accumulation employs 17,000 humans worldwide, of whom amid 3,500 and 4,000 plan in London.

According to reports, the agency's arch executive, Jeremy Helsby, has told agents at the firm's 111 UK off ... Read more »

Invesco, the better individual actor in the UK nuclear accumulation British Energy, has alleged for the aggregation to be alloyed with Centrica, which it says is the alone band-aid for the abiding approaching of both the companies.

The investment accumulation that has 15 per cent of British Energy, as able-bodied as 5 per cent of the owners of British Gas, Centrica, says that the proposals accept been put to the boards of both companies. The plans, which aswell cover a role for the French activity accumulation EDF, are advised to advice the companies to appear "together [so] that they can plan with EDF to body nuclear sites," say Invesco.

Invesco's affirmation that the accord involves the French activity accumulation comes just canicule afterwards EDF's bid for the nuclear accumulation was rebuffed. Earlier this month, EDF's planned takeover of British Energy, which was admired at 765p a allotment and was backed by the Government, was alone by Invesco and by M&G, British Energy's additional better institutional shareholder. It is accepted that the shareholders were searching for a amount afterpiece to 900p a allotment for their stakes.

Centrica is appear ... Read more »

Invesco, the better individual actor in the UK nuclear accumulation British Energy, has alleged for the aggregation to be alloyed with Centrica, which it says is the alone band-aid for the abiding approaching of both the companies.

The investment accumulation that has 15 per cent of British Energy, as able-bodied as 5 per cent of the owners of British Gas, Centrica, says that the proposals accept been put to the boards of both companies. The plans, which aswell cover a role for the French activity accumulation EDF, are advised to advice the companies to appear "together [so] that they can plan with EDF to body nuclear sites," say Invesco.

Invesco's affirmation that the accord involves the French activity accumulation comes just canicule afterwards EDF's bid for the nuclear accumulation was rebuffed. Earlier this month, EDF's planned takeover of British Energy, which was admired at 765p a allotment and was backed by the Government, was alone by Invesco and by M&G, British Energy's additional better institutional shareholder. It is accepted that the shareholders were searching for a amount afterpiece to 900p a allotment for their stakes.

Centrica is appear ... Read more »

Invesco, the better individual actor in the UK nuclear accumulation British Energy, has alleged for the aggregation to be alloyed with Centrica, which it says is the alone band-aid for the abiding approaching of both the companies.

The investment accumulation that has 15 per cent of British Energy, as able-bodied as 5 per cent of the owners of British Gas, Centrica, says that the proposals accept been put to the boards of both companies. The plans, which aswell cover a role for the French activity accumulation EDF, are advised to advice the companies to appear "together [so] that they can plan with EDF to body nuclear sites," say Invesco.

Invesco's affirmation that the accord involves the French activity accumulation comes just canicule afterwards EDF's bid for the nuclear accumulation was rebuffed. Earlier this month, EDF's planned takeover of British Energy, which was admired at 765p a allotment and was backed by the Government, was alone by Invesco and by M&G, British Energy's additional better institutional shareholder. It is accepted that the shareholders were searching for a amount afterpiece to 900p a allotment for their stakes.

Centrica is appear ... Read more »