All of Britain’s leading accounting firms have failed to hit quality targets set by their regulator for auditing company books, and they have done so for the second year in a row, with Grant Thornton and PwC singled out to join KPMG under tougher supervision.

So that’s Thursday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Causeway Capital, an Irish-based equity fund, has bought out the Patisserie Valerie coffee-and-cake chain from British administrators, showing its faith in troubled UK retailing.

Three brothers are to pocket a £6m (€8.9m) windfall after selling a controlling stake in their upmarket French café chain to Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson.