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...According to its chair Sharon White, John Lewis is going through the “greatest scale of change” in its 157-year history. Her job is to ensure it survives....
...Oil prices fell, with Brent crude, the international benchmark, settling down 2.2 per cent at $43.31 per barrel....
...The Brent Cross and Westfield malls, both easily reachable from Watford, also have a John Lewis. There are three other Debenhams within 10 miles....
...Brent crude was 1.4 per cent higher at $63.36....
...Patrick Barlow, one of the pioneers of deliberate rubbishiness, has dusted off and polished up — well, dusted off — his script for the 1983 National Theatre of Brent presentation....
...But he appears to be having one last dance with Ofcom boss Sharon White....
...link homes and businesses to the web BT yesterday appointed Mike McTighe, a former Ofcom board member, as the first chairman of Openreach, but his appointment has evidently failed to appease Ofcom head Sharon...
...Ofcom boss Sharon White has backed away from splitting Openreach, the UK’s main telecoms infrastructure group, away from BT, which Mr Patterson runs. Ring fencing is the likely alternative....
...Brent, the international benchmark, is down more than 60 per cent since its current weakening began in June 2014. eric.platt@ft.com Twitter: @ericgplatt...
...It will be a cause of some satisfaction to BT that Ofcom head Sharon White has urged the European Commission to block CK Hutchison’s £10.5bn acquisition of O2....
...Intercontinental Exchange, which operates the Brent contract in London, said it was hopeful regulators would listen to traders’ concerns....
...Sharon White, new boss of Ofcom, suggests the telecoms group could, like Samson, do with a trim. This would shear the telecoms access utility from its parent....
...It will be interesting to see whether this will result on any action, or whether new Ofcom boss Sharon White is just flexing her muscles, which include powers to assess competition....
...Oldham has six extra temporary employees, South Tyneside and Brent have also increased collection staff....
...The price of Brent Crude oil was $26 a barrel, the Federal government was running a budget surplus, the US economy was turning (albeit imperceptibly) after the dotcom crash....
...reflecting on the fact that there are thousands of women working in the charitable sector who never seem to be included in this category – yet they are as entrepreneurial as many a business person, for example Sharon...
...I have been catching up with my great friend Brent Hoberman, co-founder of lastminute.com....
...It needs to be stressed, first of all, as Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to President George H.W....
...With some prodding from the US, Israel's Ariel Sharon has echoed the positive notes sounded by Mr Abbas....
...Brent Scowcroft, a former national security adviser and close collaborator of former president George H. W....
...Such attributes brought her into the White House under Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to the president's father, George H. Bush....
...This week Brent Scowcroft, the former national security adviser to the first President Bush, joined those who have excoriated the present administration’s disdain for alliances....
...He is expected to serve in the Brent Scowcroft mould, having worked closely with President George H. W....
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