Business

A lottery winner who pumped his jackpot money into his beloved football club has died.Paul Bristow and his wife Thea hit the headlines in 2004 when they won £15 million ...

The man who brought glam rockers Kiss to the world has died.Bill Aucoin, who was 66, spotted the make-up and leather-clad group’s musical and marketing potential at an early show ...

Today we remember the co-creator of the Trivial Pursuit board game, Chris Haney, (above left) who has died at the age of 59.Before inventing the game with Scott Abbott (right), ...

Bob Mercer, a Scottish record company executive best known for signing the Sex Pistols to EMI, has died aged 65.The punk trailblazers put pen to paper on a lucrative contract ...

Apple took the strange decision last week to announce the launch date and prices for the eagerly-awaited — the day after the General Election. Quite why they wanted to ‘bury’ ...

Labour might appear to be on their knees and the Lib Dems playing piggy-in-the-middle but don't for a minute think there is any good reason to vote Conservative tomorrow. This ...

The ‘Q’ from B&Q, businessman David Quayle, has died, aged 73.He co-founded the ground-breaking do-it-yourself chain store with brother-in-law Richard Block in the 1960s.Their empire took off and grew - ...

The credit crunch might be old news but its effects are finally coming round to bite football where it hurts. As the Premier League approaches its 20th anniversary, the writing's ...

Hamstrung by working practices of a long-gone era, British Airways find themselves facing strike action, it seems, year after year. But chief executive Willie Walsh looks set to take the ...

Company announces positive results; media attribute it to product launch. Simple enough when the story has legs. But when everyone seems to get the wrong end of the stick?