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The British advertising market is growing at an “amazingly strong” rate and is set to overtake Germany to be the world’s fourth largest in a sign that the UK recovery is accelerating.

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Mark Carney was speaking at his first Mansion House speech since becoming governor
The UK’s biggest builders — Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey and Barratt Developments — plunged 5% while Bovis Homes and Bellway sank 4%
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Tado claims customers are shying away from Google’s Nest because they fear the internet giant is amassing too much information
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Militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waving the trademark Islamists flag after they allegedly seized an Iraqi army checkpoint in the northern Iraqi province of Salahuddin
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Adapters for iPhone 3GS, 4 and 4S sold between 2009 and 2012 are affected
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Alistair Cox says UK’s 'arbitrary' rules around immigration are damaging the economic and forcing firms to relocate overseas
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Diamond put $16m of his money into the African venture, now set to miss $400m investment target
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New website boosted its performance with online sales soaring 84%
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No upgrade despite improving labour market and growth outlook
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Clean living: Bronner, 41, took over the business when his father died of cancer in 1998
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New research also reveals marked rise in prescription medication
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The CBI urges the next government to focus on closing the gender pay gap
Calls for national target in gender pay gap
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Mark Carne is the new chief executive of Network Rail
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Profits almost halved last year after failed upmarket move
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Sir Terry Leahy at Tesco HQ in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
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Irish carrier blamed cabin crew strikes for putting passengers off booking flights on its planes this summer
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Watchdog argues those managing non-fault accident claims have ?no incentive to keep costs down’
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UK dominates trading in forex with a 40% market share against 19% in New York
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Amazon announced profits of £64m in the first quarter of 2014
Online vendor is testing a new system in the US that links services to the thousands of products it sells
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Britain’s labour market is highly flexible – employment has risen but average real wages have fallen, David Blanchflower
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British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne holds the budget box outside 11 Downing Street in London
Business editor James Ashton shares his top stories of the week
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Not content with fighting the book world, Jeff Bezos is courting a battle with Warner Bros. Mark McSherry asks if he's gone too far
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Harsher rules to encourage the long-term unemployed into work state they will only receive their benefits if they either show up at a jobcentre every day or commit to six months of voluntary work
In the last boom we had false signals from inflation. Now we're getting false signals on pay, says Hamish McRae
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OUTLOOK: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's legacy of corporate profiteering from PFI has decades to run yet, says Jim Armitage
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Adair Turner, former chairman of the FSA , would like to see part of government debts monetised
Lord Turner, the former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, tells Ben Chu , that radical policies are still needed to overcome the dire legacy of the financial crisis
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Nearly time for kick off: Young Brazil fans playing football on the outskirts of Sao Paulo
Which of the qualifying countries look the most appealing to investors? Rob Griffin reports
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Justin King was in the vanguard of the new breed of egalitarian bosses: out went the pinstripes - titles were banished. writes Chris Blackhurst
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Vice co-founder Shane Smith (left) with TechCrunch journalist Ryan Lawler at a recent event in New York
Controversial and sometimes verging on obscene, Vice Media is also the hottest thing in an industry hungry for content, says Mark McSherry
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Get angry about people playing the system by all means, but start at the top and work your way down if you expect to be taken seriously, says James Bloodworth
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