Both ministers and businesses are hoping that Team GB's success at the Olympics will help boost the economy.   

The Olympics is proving a boost to retailing and tourism, it was announced today.

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Slowing growth in India and China saw Standard Chartered produce its slowest increase in first-half profits for a decade.

London's tourism industry is struggling to compete with the impact of the Olympic Games, which has left the host city a “ghost town”, businesses said today.

Retailers hoping for an Olympics boost appear to have suffered an early drop in business as visitors stay away from central London due to fears of overcrowding.

Sir Richard Branson is considering buying back Virgin Records more than 40 years after founding the business that spawned his empire.

Mick Jagger may rethink the words he sang more than 45 years ago — "What a drag it is getting old."

At the Arsenal stadium, Blair joins team Miliband – but not all supporters will be cheering

The couple met in a rehab clinic in America while they were still in their twenties

A funding shortage has resulted in a scaled down version of London's Gay Pride event taking place today.

Chelsea's hopes of moving to Battersea Power Station have been extinguished after a Malaysian consortium completed a £400million purchase of the London landmark.

The rock photographer Gered Mankowitz is better known for photographing The Rolling Stones, Oasis and Jimi Hendrix than he is for snapping rusty padlocks and corroding cameras. But on the quiet, he has been collecting rusty objects for 14 years and photographing them as they decay.