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M&S Simply Food store
M&S to close stores and cut jobs
Marks and Spencer says it plans to close 25 Simply Food stores and two of its regular stores, and cut 1,230 jobs.
Peston: No ordinary downturn
Blacks Leisure in profits alert
Slowdown helps takeaway profit

Volvo dealership UK car sales fall to 12-year-low
UK car sales in 2008 are 11.3% lower than they had been in 2007, following a 21.2% drop in December.

London skyline Hundreds to lose jobs at Barclays
Hundreds of IT workers for Barclays Bank are expected to lose their jobs following a review, the bank announces.


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Margaret Bewley Long goodbye
Woolworths staff feel the pain of closure
Robert Peston Robert Peston
UK retailers are facing a sterling challenge
White vinyl single coming off the presses at the Portalspace factory in Hayes, Middlesex Vintage vinyl
The 7 inch single is still making music after 60 years

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Toyota shuts plants for 11 days
Final Woolworths stores shut down

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Porsche takes majority VW stake
French TV ditches prime-time ads
Areva wins Niger uranium licence
Wedgwood in administration
ROBERT PESTON'S BLOG
M&S: no ordinary downturn
Sterling challenge for UK shops
Bull in a china shop
FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Steve Jobs holds up the new Mac Book Air in 2008 Fans' reaction
Apple boss Steve Jobs's health hot topic at Macworld
Woolworths in Devonshire Road, Bexhill Wonder years
A BBC journalist remembers his first job - at Woolworths
Christmas at the mall is losing its sparkle City state gloom
Singapore's Christmas fails to sparkle this year
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Home diners boost takeaway profit
Downloads boost 2008 single sales
Apprenticeship boost in downturn
India IT boss quits over scandal
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