There were no more £40m pension top-ups for Richard Desmond last year, but there have been compensations for the publisher of OK magazine. He has set aside £17m of his company's money to buy a corporate jet

Added: 2008-05-27

Desmond says OK to £17m Gulfstream jet

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Guardian chief is Veuve Clicquot award winner

Carolyn McCall, a 22-year veteran of the publishing industry, was last night named winner of the 2008 Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award.

Meredith Kercher 'drank enough to pass out'

Meredith Kercher had drunk enough alcohol to pass out before she was murdered, according to media reports in Italy.

HBOS launches £4bn rights issue

The two-for-five issue, priced at 275p a share, came as Britain's biggest mortgage lender announced write-downs totalling £2.84bn against impaired securities in its first quarter