The Great Escape is half frenzied gig-dash, half music-biz convention. But it's a hundred per cent fun

Ligeti's Piano Études are famously quixotic in pushing the player beyond their usual limits.

The UK's biggest independent cinema chain, Apollo, is thought to be close to a sale to larger, private equity-owned rival Vue.

Home Retail Group, the owner of the Argos and Homebase chains, has ditched its final dividend for the first time in six years, after a slump in profits and sales at the general merchandise giant.

Sweet Billy Pilgrim's follow-up to 2009's Mercury-nominated Twice Born Men finds songwriter Tim Elsenburg making great strides forward with an ambitious cycle of songs about identity and history.

Sony is to slash 10,000 jobs, or about 6% of its global workforce, and turn around its money-losing TV business to try to return to profit after four years in the red.

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The 14,000 employees of Yahoo are bracing for thousands of layoffs that could begin as early as this week as the company's new chief executive finalises a major new strategy for the internet firm.

Chancellor's handling of freeze on pension allowances sparks fury on back benches

Andrew Strauss expects Sri Lankan conditions to provide a tough physical test for England.

The City piled into Persimmon yesterday as the housebuilder unveiled a £1.9bn dividend giveaway, sending the shares roaring 13 per cent higher to 706.5p.