House prices in the UK were 2% higher than a year ago in July as the strength of the London property market outweighed declines elsewhere in the UK.

Marks & Spencer boss Stuart Rose drew encouragement from recent trading today after the chain posted an unexpected rise in half-year profits.

The George Best Belfast City Airport has been sold for nearly four times what its owners paid just five years ago, it was announced today.

The ISEQ-index of Irish shares shows no sign of recovering this morning as market stalwarts find themselves floundering in the red.

Business support services group DCC, has acquired Southern Counties Fuels Holdings Limited (SCFH), a oil distribution business operating in the south east of England, for €9.75m.

The ownership of airports in the UK is facing its first major shake-up for nearly 20 years – sparking a war of words between BAA and the airlines over how to deliver a better service for travellers.

Newspaper group Trinity Mirror said today it planned to sell the Racing Post and regional titles in the British midlands and London and the south east of England.

The Civil Aviation Authority indicated today that it would take a dim view of any takeover bid for airports operator BAA using large amounts of debt.

Fire-fighters have been given the go-ahead to tackle one of the biggest fires in Britain since the Second World War after satisfying environmental concerns.

A major review of how Northern Ireland is run is failing to ask searching questions about the number of government departments there, it was claimed today.

The company behind Thomson Holidays and Lunn Poly was today said to be planning to reduce its workforce by around 2,000 as part of a major overhaul.

Supermarket group Somerfield is to take control of 114 smaller Safeway stores as part of a £260m (€374.4m) deal involving rival Morrisons, it said today.

British radio group GWR announced today it had joined forces with BT Wholesale to create a new digital service which should boost its revenues by more than £5m (€7.4m) a year.

A packed football stadium could have been the target of an al-Qaida attack, it emerged today, as 10 people arrested in anti-terror raids were being questioned by police.

BRITAIN has entered a “dark age” of injustice, a leading civil liberties lawyer has claimed.

It will be busy in London City next week, as market watchers dodge the May Day riots to study figures from Whitbread, Shell, Bank of Scotland and Powergen.