Starbucks UK has blamed high rents and a hefty royalty payment to its US parent for its fifth consecutive year of losses.

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Ofcom puts cap on cost of stamps

How much would you spend on a desk? Few would – or even could – go as far as George Osborne's dad, who has his eye on one that costs "from" £19,000. Nevertheless, there are plenty of us for whom a good desk is one of our greatest extravagances. I paid three figures to upgrade from a perfectly serviceable Ikea pine corner desk to a solid, vintage one with a leather surface so worn that it has inch-wide holes. It was worth every penny.

The one thing you would never do at the desk Sir Peter Osborne has his eye on is write at it

From Tanzania's Grumpy Mule to Jamaica's Blue Mountain, we select the top blends for your pot

The writer tells Danuta Kean how she swapped criminology for exotic dancing to research her new thriller

Joe Cole insists he has embraced life in France - even down to eating frog's legs.

It took 15,000 men two years to build the Titanic. I gave myself just three hours to raise the world's most famous cruise liner 100 years after its demise. My tools: A blunt craft knife; a tube of what turns out to be non-stick glue; and diminishing reserves of patience.

Promoting domesticity to make it in a man's world – a clear-eyed memoir

My first thought when I embarked on this project was: do women write porn?

If the under-24s are the 'lost generation', then the over-40s are the 'forgotten generation'

Like many instances in which we deploy a French word to describe something, being an ‘entrepreneur’ can often sound a lot more glamorous than it is.

Nominated for nine major theatre awards Ghost the Musical is a timeless fantasy about the power of love.