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Ryanair misses profit forecasts as rising fuel costs hit figures

RECENT oil price hikes prevented Irish no-frills airline Ryanair from hitting profit forecasts when it published its second-quarter results yesterday.Read

Bill Gleeson

Bill Gleeson: Another pleasant surprise from the official statistics

YESTERDAY’S provisional figure for GDP growth was a pleasant surprise, especially after all of last week’s anguish over government spending cuts.Read

George Osborne

Liverpool business leaders welcome infrastructure spending commitments in George Osborne's review

A LEADING member of Liverpool’s business community last night expressed doubts that the city’s private sector would be able to absorb all of the expected public sector job losses arising from yesterday’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR)Read

Bill Gleeson

Bill Gleeson: D-day for the public sector

MANY will have woken up this morning with a profound sense of trepidation about what has become known as austerity day.Read

Bill Gleeson

Bill Gleeson: More education means a more productive workforce

A COLLEAGUE asked me yesterday whether I enjoyed studying English at university. “Thoroughly,” was my answer.Read

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Malcolm Walker bids £1bn to take back full control of Iceland Foods

FOOD retailer Malcolm Walker is bidding to take back full control of Deeside-based frozen food chain Iceland Foods.Read

Lord Heseltine

Lord Heseltine to help celebrate Chamber’s 160th birthday

FORMER minister for Merseyside Lord Heseltine is to be a guest speaker at Liverpool Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s annual dinner later this year.Read

Lettings problems cause collapse of Ethel Austin Investment Properties

ONE of Liverpool’s biggest property investment firms has collapsed into administration.Read

Bill Gleeson

Bill Gleeson: A modern day lesson in world domination

FROM Genghis Khan to Napoleon, history is littered with empire builders who could have learn a thing or two from Tesco, had the supermarket been around in their day.Read

Bill Gleeson

Bill Gleeson: Coalition must succeed, even if it costs Nick Clegg’s soul

“WE WILL never lose our soul,” declared Nick Clegg at this week’s Liberal Democrat party conference. And there was me thinking he already had.Read

Stay in touch with LDP Business Club

LDP Business will tomorrow launch a new-look monthly newsletter, exclusively for our Business Club members.Read

Vince Cable

CBI boss voices concerns about ‘small and fragmented’ LEPs

THE Government’s proposed Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) are too small and fragmented to be effective, it was claimed yesterday.Read

Bill Gleeson

Bill Gleeson: Conservationists must not derail Peel’s plans

PEEL Holdings will shortly submit a revised planning application for its Liverpool Waters scheme.Read

Bill Gleeson

Bill Gleeson: Yet more British manufacturing moves to the east

THE decision by Switzerland’s Givaudan to divest from Merseyside seems to have the air of inevitability to it.Read

Has Liverpool City Council missed a trick in the parks?

I SHOWED a first-time visitor to Liverpool around last weekend.Read

Can China really become world’s biggest economy?

FIGURES published earlier this week showed China has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy.Read

TMP seeks backing from private sector to become region’s LEP

THE Mersey Partnership (TMP) will today seek to persuade its private sector members to support its bid to become one of the Government’s planned new Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs).Read

Will Merseyside’s new BioCampus keep jobs here?

WHETHER it originates from Europe or Whitehall, the fact is that money for regional development in our part of the world is drying up.Read

Bill Gleeson

Bill Gleeson: Can Cameron’s big society be a profitable place?

I AM trying to work out whether or not David Cameron’s Big Society idea is in keeping with traditional Conservative thinking.Read