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Harriet Walker rises to the challenge

The height of fashion: Chloe Green follows in her famous father's footsteps

Harriet Walker tries the new shoes designed by Topshop mogul's daughter

A flash of brash in a fitting finale to Fashion Week

Tradition gives way to colour, glitz – and a glam-rock vibe

Barratts and Priceless go under again

Barratts Priceless, the retail footwear group, has collapsed into administration again, to leave nearly 4,000 jobs hanging by a thread.

Fears for festive trading after high street sales sink

CBI says consumers are likely to remain cautious because of the uncertain economic climate

Business Diary: Can't keep a good man down

Back by popular demand: Andrew Gowers, the former FT editor who these days is a public relations man for hire. PR Week reveals Gowers is joining the Association of Financial Markets in Europe on a three-month contract – the trade body's boss Simon Lewis says he has "been in some very interesting situations". He's not joking – Gowers did PR for Lehman Brothers until it went belly up and then moved on to BP, only to step down following the Deepwater Horizon debacle. Third time lucky, Lewis presumably hopes.

Not only in America: Wall Street protests are coming to London

Thousands join online group as demonstrators vow to 'Occupy the Stock Exchange' today

Next takes on up to 1,000 fashion retail apprentices

High-street chain hopes to show that 'someone training from 17 without a degree can succeed'

New Look to revamp its store portfolio

Troubled fashion chain embarks on property review as it continues search for a chief executive

<i>IoS</i> letters, emails &amp; online postings (28 August 2011)

The role of central government politicians is to ensure that laws are clear and precise. Police forces have a clear mandate to apply them, free from interference. Once prime ministers, metropolitan mayors or home secretaries believe they are better placed than highly trained police officers to do the job and use their access to the media to make cheap political points, we are on a downward slide.

Everton must sell Jagielka, bank tells club

Kenwright admits Goodison outfit are under pressure to also sell Baines, Fellaini and Howard to reduce debts

Matthew Norman: Even a benign dictator would struggle to tackle this sickness

With self-delusional British smugness, we congratulated ourselves on our tolerance, because we learnt to keep the filthy racist epithets to ourselves

Chloe Green joins cast of Made In Chelsea

Chloe Green has joined the cast of 'Made In Chelsea'.

A lesson in what not to wear when you're on holiday

Successful women are forever judged on their appearance. So why shouldn't men suffer the same fate, asks Harriet Walker

Call for more oversight of contribution schemes

David Norgrove, best known for derailing Sir Philip Green's bid for Marks & Spencer in 2004, has called for an overhaul of the way defined contribution pension schemes are overseen.

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