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Apprentice 2013 runner-up Luisa Zissman

The Apprentice Final 2013: Doubts cast over Luisa Zissman's business claims

The finalist's one company has a net worth of £200

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Katie Hopkins stirs up more outrage with comment that 'Gazza should crack on with drinking'

After her controversial comments made on This Morning last week, the former Apprentice contestant said she disagreed with treating addiction

Credo: Margaret Mountford: 'I was once called the nation's favourite headmistress'

The ex-lawyer, ex-'Apprentice' adviser and reluctant celebrity on ambition and debt

Sales today is an unpopular job, in stark contrast to the 50s when one man declared himself King of street traders

The dearth of the salesmen: A career failing to sell itself

There are 20,000 posts advertised a month, but the job can't shake off its negative image

James Moore: Women can succeed on trading floors – but toxic culture has to change, too

Outlook Could an infusion of women on to trading floors be the catalyst to reform the toxic culture that led to the Libor interest rate scandal, not to mention a string of others down the years? It's one of the more intriguing suggestions made by the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, which wants banks to publish figures and fix any imbalance that is revealed.

Jason and Luisa designing their Flowers&Friends dating website logo

Apprentice 2013: Should Jason Leech have stood down as project manager? Take our poll

Love was not in the air for Luisa Zissman and Jason Leech during Lord Sugar’s dating task.

Motoring: Sir Alan Sugar says he’s still Rolls-ing in it after downsizing

Keen viewers of the latest series of The Apprentice could be forgiven for thinking that Sir Alan Sugar’s fortune is shrinking. The tycoon, who made his pile from Amstrad but is arguably more of a TV celebrity than high-flying businessman today, seems to have traded his £300,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom in for a cheaper model.

Lord Sugar with The Apprentice 2013 contestants

The Apprentice poll: Are you bored of the boardroom?

Do you fast forward to the very end to see who's fired or do you prefer to bask in the contestants failing their tasks?

The cast and crew of E4's 'Made In Chelsea' who scooped the award for best reality and constructed factual programme (Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

Bafta TV awards 2013: Lord Sugar miffed that Young Apprentice missed out to Made in Chelsea

Lord Sugar evidently isn’t used to missing out on the big prizes in life. When his reality show Young Apprentice lost out to reality show Made in Chelsea at the British Academy Television Awards last night he might have clapped politely but soon made his displeasure felt elsewhere.

The Evolve team with losing contestant Jaz, far left on the lower row

First Night: I'm sick of clichés, says Lord Sugar as the The Apprentice returns

They were sent to take delivery of loads of toilet paper, bottled water and waving Chinese cats

Nick Hewer, Lord Alan Sugar, Karren Brady from this year's BBC programme, The Apprentice.

Sir Alan Sugar says 'I've not fired any Mark Zuckerbergs' as The Apprentice returns

“I’m not perfect. There are occasions I may have got it wrong,” Lord Sugar declared, in a rare display of humility. “But I haven’t seen anyone who’s become a new Branson or Zuckerberg that I’ve let go.”

Jordan Poulton, Jaz Ampaw-Farr, Kurt Wilson, Francesca MacDuff-Varley, Myles Mordaunt, Natalie Panayi, Alex Mills, Luisa Zissman, with (sitting left to right) Tim Stillwell, Rebecca Slater, Jason Leech, Sophie Lau, Neil Clough, Leah Totton, Zeeshaan Shah, Uzma Yakoob, the contestants in this year's BBC programme, The Apprentice.

The Apprentice 2013 contestants revealed: Get ready for new format and 'all the usual clichés'

The Apprentice is back, but this time with a bit of a twist.

Hello! Magazine handout photo of Karen Brady and family at home.

Apprentice star Karen Brady: Brain aneurysm changed my life

Apprentice star Karren Brady has revealed how a potentially fatal illness changed her life forever.

DVD review: Love Crime

Kristin Scott Thomas and Ludivine Sagnier; sex and murder; swanky Parisian boardrooms and bedrooms. Sounds enticing, doesn't it?

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The Dr Feelgood guitarist talks frankly about his terminal illness
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Before you stuff your luggage with this year's Man Booker longlist titles, the case for some varied poolside reading alternatives
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Rupert Cornwell: What if Edward Snowden had stayed to fight his corner?

The CIA whistleblower struck a blow for us all, but his 1970s predecessor showed how to win
'A man walks into a bar': Comedian Seann Walsh on the dangers of mixing alcohol and stand-up

Comedian Seann Walsh on alcohol and stand-up

Comedy and booze go together, says Walsh. The trouble is stopping at just the one. So when do the hangovers stop being funny?
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Edinburgh to Hollywood: 10 comedic talents blowing up big

Hugh Montgomery profiles the faces to watch, from the sitcom star to the surrealist
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Comedian Tig Notaro: 'Hello. I have cancer'

When Notaro discovered she had a tumour she decided the show must go on
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Bill Granger's Asia-influenced egg recipes

Our chef made his name cooking eggs, but he’s never stopped looking for new ways to serve them
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The world wakes up to golf's female big hitters

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10 athletes ready to take the world by storm in Moscow next week

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The Last Word: Luis Suarez and Gareth Bale's art of manipulation

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