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New structure at Aurora aims to make the most of online retailing trend
Wednesday 06 March 2013
Aurora Fashions, the group behind the Coast, Oasis and Warehouse brands, is radically reshaping its businesses to help it capitalise on the rapid shift to online retailing globally.
Google Street View moves indoors
Sunday 17 February 2013
If you’re a fan of the Indiana Colts NFL team you can now check out their stadium on your smartphone thanks to Google Street View.
Neighbourhood, North Avenue, Spinningfields, Manchester
Saturday 16 February 2013
In Manhattan, restaurateurs and chefs maddened by the blitzkrieg of bloggers' flashbulbs are starting to ban diners from taking photographs of their meals. In Manchester, where new Manhattan-inspired mega-restaurant Neighbourhood has just opened, photography seems to be positively encouraged. Dressed-up gal-pals are merrily snapping away at each other, and even the staff are at it; you've got to love a chef who proudly captures a hamburger on his BlackBerry before letting it leave the pass.
Ocado posts 11th consecutive annual loss but forecasts profit
Thursday 07 February 2013
The online grocer Ocado has mounted a vigorous defence of its business model after posting another loss for the 11th year running.
Boyd Tonkin: Timbuktu is a cultural tragedy – but if e-books burn, no one will see the flames
Friday 01 February 2013
The Week in Books
Offices could be converted to homes without planning permission under new government proposals
Tuesday 22 January 2013
Empty office blocks could be converted to flats without planning permission under Government proposals to increase the supply of housing.
Monteverdi gets the Silent Opera treatment
Saturday 12 January 2013
We're in uncharted territory, staring at a crystal ball. This glass globe adorns a table at Trinity Buoy Wharf – the Docklands river peninsula devoted to the arts and creative industries where anything can happen and often does. But am I really looking into the future of opera?
Online investment bulks up Shop Direct loss
Thursday 08 November 2012
The Barclay brothers, the owners of the Daily Telegraph newspaper, have blamed a big investment in online for another year of hefty losses at their Shop Direct, the group behind the Littlewoods, isme and Very brands.
Ocado sorry as deliveries are cancelled after systems failure
Tuesday 30 October 2012
Ocado has apologised to customers after a systems failure forced it to cancel thousands of deliveries.
Retail: Moving from knickers to kickers
Wednesday 01 August 2012
It sounds like a battle for number one circa 1987, but Beverley Williams yesterday replaced Keith Jones as CEO of JJB Sports.
Agenda: Warehouse; Aiden Grimshaw; Revenge; Gray and Turner; Shrimpy's
Sunday 27 May 2012
Fashion: Pencil in the celebrations
Album: Santana, Shape Shifter (Starfaith/Sony)
Sunday 13 May 2012
Caramba! Certainly not Caravanserai.
Police confronted at illegal Milton Keynes rave
Monday 05 March 2012
Up to 90 police officers were confronted by 200 people at an illegal rave on an industrial estate.
Aurora seeks to exit investment in luxury label Bastyan
Wednesday 15 February 2012
The retail group Aurora Fashions has appointed advisers to sell its stake in the luxury womenswear label Bastyan after just two years.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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