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Profits at Sainsbury’s rose again today as the supermarket maintained its run of success under chief executive Justin King.
It came as the retailer also announced it was taking full control of Sainsbury’s Bank in a £248 million deal to buy the 50% stake held by taxpayer-backed Lloyds Banking Group....

 
When Roger Simmermaker went shopping for clothes at a Florida mall in the mid-1990s, he wanted to buy American, but to his frustration, he couldn’t find anything made in the U.S.A.
The experience motivated Simmermaker, an electronics technician by trade, to write “How Americans Can Buy American” – a guide to finding products manufactured in the United States, which were a scarce commodity at the time...

A national lift and elevator firm has been sentenced for safety failings that were uncovered after the death of a lift engineer from an electric shock while working at Pentonville prison in North London.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigated after Steven Loake, 53, from Archway, died while trying to fix a fault on the chapel lift at Pentonville prison in Holloway on 5 October 2010. The engineer did not isolate the lift from the power supply...

A Nuneaton storage and distribution firm has been fined after a worker was killed when a tall stack of empty wooden pallets toppled on to him.
Marcin Rogala, 29, who lived in Harold Street, Nuneaton, was working at Ralph Coleman International Ltd on the Bermuda Industrial Estate in Nuneaton when the incident happened on 9 November 2010....