Bad News From Britain

By Charlotte Groves Saturday, 1 November 2008
The full scale of the management breakdown at Radio 2 began to emerge yesterday, as a traumatic week for the BBC ended with internal recriminations about the basic failure to follow editorial guidelines.
The chairman of the BBC Trust, Sir Michael Lyons, said that neither he nor the director-general, Mark Thompson, knew about the lewd phone calls made by the Radio 2 presenters Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross until they read about the row in last Sunday...

By Amanda Andrews Last Updated: 7:36PM GMT 31 Oct 2008
BT is expected to cut thousands of jobs worldwide in its Global Services division following a disappointing performance in the second quarter, forcing the telecoms group to sound a shock profits warning and raising doubts about the dividend....

By Katherine Griffiths, Financial Services Editor Last Updated: 10:21AM GMT 01 Nov 2008
Barclays has angered shareholders by offering new Middle Eastern investors a more generous than expected package in return for capital which will see the UK bank raise £7bn from the private sector....

By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent
Last Updated: 7:42AM GMT 01 Nov 2008
The commander of Britain's SAS troops in Afghanistan has resigned in disgust, accusing the Government of "gross negligence" over the deaths of four of his soldiers.