As Primark sacks three of its suppliers, is saying 'it's a complex issue' still a defence for our addiction to cheap clothes?

The former head of of the Office of Fair Trading, Sir Bryan Carsberg, urged the Government yesterday to regulate estate agents and to make Home Information Packs (Hips) voluntary, as he published conclusions from his year-long review into the housing market.

BP's reputation in Russia came under attack yesterday when the billionaire oligarch at the centre of a row over the company's troubled Russian joint venture accused BP of "arrogance" and Nazi-style behaviour.

The Government is shifting the focus of its latest drive to get the long-term unemployed back into work from large employers to smaller firms.

Business leaders usually wrestle with how to make money, not give it away but Tobias Read is an exception. The chief executive of EPCglobal, a recruitment company specialising in the supply of engineers and construction staff, has had a moment of self-awareness perhaps not dissimilar to that experienced by the salesman character played by Tom Cruise in the film Jerry Maguire.

UK farming could soon be a thing of the past unless training is overhauled to attract new recruits.

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