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Jeremy Warner's Outlook: Disaster of Metronet may be a vindication …
No wonder Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, was feeling so pleased with himself
yesterday. His much-trumpeted opposition to the public-private partnership on the London
Underground seems to have been … 
Reader's Digest falls to private equity bidders
Reader's Digest, the magazine read by 80 million people around the world, is changing
hands in a deal worth $2.4bn (£1.3bn) …
Retailers head for Christmas on a year's high
Retailers received an early Christmas present last month as shoppers loaded up with the
largest volume of purchases so far this year, official figures showed yesterday …
US radio group Clear Channel sold to consortium for $26.7bn
Clear Channel Communications, the biggest radio broadcaster in the US, is being taken over
in a $26.7bn (£14.1bn) deal that ranks among the biggest private equity acquisitions of
all time …
Taxpayers threatened with huge bill after Tube consortium warns of …
Metronet, one of the two private sector consortia put in charge of the London Underground,
said yesterday it expected the taxpayer to pick up a "substantial part" of an estimated …
Hutchison scraps plan to float UK mobile arm
3 UK has scrapped plans to list its business and ruled out a sale of the company after
pinning its hopes on innovative mobile broadband services that link a customer's …
Lloyd's chief admits customers let down
The new chief executive of Lloyd's of London, Richard Ward, conceded yesterday that his
insurance market had "forgotten what its customers want and need", claiming its pace of
modernisation and …
Senior officers 'approved abuse of Iraqi prisoners'
… At a court martial in Bulford Camp, Wiltshire, in which seven soldiers are
charged with abuse of nine Iraqis, a witness said military lawyers ordered him to
"condition" prisoners for …
Doctors 'played down danger' of mental patient who killed cyclist
Mental health campaigners called for extra investment in crisis services yesterday after
an inquiry into the killing of a man by a psychiatric patient with a known history of
violence …
Family praises 'critical' inquiry and attacks trust failures
Denis Finnegan's family, who attended the inquiry report's launch in Croydon yesterday,
praised its "critical" and "honest" account. But they condemned the failure of the St
George's Mental Health Trust …