A property developer is waiting to hear whether he has won the latest stage of a legal battle with two of the UK’s best-known businessmen over control of a £1bn (€1.16bn) company which owns three of London’s most famous hotels.

Low-cost airline easyJet today lost the latest round of its legal battle over what it has described as an “exorbitant” increase in airport charges at Gatwick.

The outcome of the Football League’s High Court bid to sue its former legal advisers over the collapsed £140m (€204m) television deal with ITV Digital will be decided today.