South East
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Mustard reveals hot ambitions for Brannigans
Mustard Entertainment Restaurants is planning to roll out about 20 more Brannigans bars over the next 18 months to two years.
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Spotlight is on motorway service area development
A major High Court dispute is under way over plans to provide five new motorway services areas on the M25 and a further service area on the M4.
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Permission refused for extension to M4 Travelodge
Granada Hospitality Ltd has failed in a High Court bid to secure planning permission for an extension to its Travelodge at Heston Service Area on the M4 to the west…
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Carillion to build GCHQ spy centre
Carillion is to build and operate the new GCHQ eavesdropping centre in Cheltenham in a contract worth £800m over 30 years.
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Aldington Crown Land earmarked for detention centre
The Home Office has earmarked Crown Land in Aldington, south-east Kent, for a detention centre of asylum seekers. The former prisoner of war camp there will be rebuilt in two…
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Crest buys south of England housing sites
Crest Nicholson has bought a 1,800-homes development site near Swindon, Wiltshire and another for 500 homes near Haywards Heath, Sussex, for an undisclosed price.
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Birmingham Midshires branches to close
Halifax-owned Birmingham Midshires is closing 47 of its 113 building society branches. All seven branches in the south-east and London will shut.
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Greene King goes after quality pubs
Greene King has vowed to continue expanding into high quality pubs. It is rolling out its 117-strong Hungry Horse chain with outlets stretching into the north where it hopes to…
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Court frees Calshott couple jailed for blocking footpath
The Court of Appeal today freed a Calshott couple jailed for 28 days for blocking part of a footpath near their home.
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Former MP must pay £1m to bank
Sir William Shelton, Tory MP for Clapham for over 20 years and member for Streatham until 1992, and his wife, Lady Anne Shelton, have been ordered by Deputy High Court…
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SFI new favourite for Slug & Lettuce
SFI has emerged as new favourite to buy Slug & Lettuce. Slug & Lettuce had been hoping to merge with Po Na Na but the Financial Times says the new…
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North East’deserves more regional funding’
The north-east has a fair claim to more regional funding but London does not, argues Peter Robinson, chief economist, at the Institute for Public Policy Research, in the Financial Times.