Leisure group Rank prepared today to bring the curtain down on a 60-year relationship with the film industry by announcing the separation of its Deluxe unit.

Spanish real estate company Inmobiliaria Colonial has taken a €759m controlling interest in French property group Societe Fonciere Lyonnaise (SFL).

Elenas River pulverised his rivals in the opening Grosvenor Casinos Novices’ Chase at Ascot today.

FRANTIC talks were continuing last night to avert the threat of administration which hangs over the Shelbourne hotel's owner, Le Meridien.

A property company owned by Britain’s richest landowner has pulled out of a bid to buy the troubled Millennium Dome, it emerged today.

The battle to buy the Millennium Dome has intensified with the alliance of two rival bidders.