The London market slipped below the 6,000 mark today after disappointing US jobs data sparked fears over the strength of the recovery in the world's biggest economy.

Leyton Orient chairman Barry Hearn will tomorrow meet Premier League chief executive Richard Scudamore to discuss his dissatisfaction over the decision to name West Ham as preferred bidders for the Olympic Stadium.

A senior UK music industry executive is reportedly among two men feared dead after a boat carrying six passengers capsized.

PADDY Power has distanced itself from fresh speculation that it is in the running to acquire the Tote betting network in Britain, which the government there is looking to sell in the coming months.

A NEW inquiry into allegations that public figures had their phones hacked was launched yesterday.

The cost of the 2012 Olympic Stadium could soar to £547m (€624m), the British government admitted today.

PEOPLE who download music and films illegally face being cut off from the web under plans being considered by ministers in Britain.

Around 1,000 gambling websites based overseas will be banned from advertising in the UK under new rules announced today.

The cost of hosting the 2012 Olympics could be set as high as £9bn (€13.4bn), according to a report.

VINCE Power, founder of the Mean Fiddler music empire, received an honorary CBE yesterday.

Plans by a horse-racing consortium to buy the Tote were thwarted by the British government today.

Movie stars and sex and violence in the animal kingdom helped make 2005 a boom year for the export of British TV programmes, according to figures out today.

Racing’s future funding and structure were the subject of an “extremely constructive meeting” between the Minister for Sport Richard Caborn MP and representatives from all aspects of the industry.

MORE than 1,000 businesses now have the right to open round the clock after new licensing laws came into force at midnight in England and Wales.

Rangers have been given planning permission for a £120m (€178m) Las Vegas-style super casino and hotel complex.

A two-minute silence will be staged at noon on Thursday to remember the victims of the London terror attacks, the British government announced tonight.

The Jockey Club was expected to decide today whether to suspend champion jockey Kieren Fallon after his horse failed to win a race despite having a huge lead.

Manchester United have appointed Philip Townsend as their new director of communications to replace Paddy Harverson, who is leaving the club to work for the Prince of Wales.

UK record industry bosses today held crisis talks with their American counterparts to try to revive Britpop in the US.

The BBC has won the three vacant digital terrestrial television licences left after the collapse of troubled broadcaster ITV Digital, the Independent Television Commission announced today.

A temporary export ban on a set of rare photographs of the little girl who inspired Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland stories has been extended until May.