High street retailer John Lewis followed up its outstanding Christmas with a whimper rather than a bang as sales dropped during the first week of the year.

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Game Group's share price sank by 43.7 per cent to an all-time low of just 3.8p after it issued another profits warning yesterday and admitted it was likely to breach banking covenant tests next month.

Print book sales were lower than expected at Christmas and the soaring popularity of tablet devices could be to blame, the distributor Smiths News warned yesterday.

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Less than 10 per cent of respondents to 'Captains of Industry' survey expect improvement

Strong sales of clothes and electrical items helped department store John Lewis take more than half a billion pounds in an “outstanding” Christmas.

Retail bellwether Next offered a snapshot of Britain's austerity Christmas today after admitting to "disappointing" sales in November and December.

Ben Fewtrell's working week is filled with the kind of emotional stress many of us do our best to avoid. Paul Vallely finds out how he and his colleagues at the Rainbow Trust support families with terminally ill children

Coldplay have knocked the Military Wives choir off the top of the charts after their single Paradise became the first official number one of 2012.

At the start of 2012, after a year that saw the end of Osama bin Laden, the withdrawal of international forces from Iraq, and a surge of pop-ular uprisings across the Arab world, there had appeared to be some grounds for optimism. Even with all the inevitable caveats and qualifications, there was at least a glimmer of hope that an implacable "clash of civilisations" might not be quite so inescapable after all. With luck and good judgement, such may still be the case. But recent developments in Nigeria are a stark warning against complacency.

Planned New Year strikes on London's Tube network have been suspended while talks on a bank holiday pay row take place.