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AIM-listed gold producer Hummingbird has poured first gold at its Yanfolila Mine in Mali. The mine is set to produce around 130,000 ounces of gold in its first year.

'Bee', 29, attended a business lunch there last year, where witnesses say she impressed guests such as Martin Sorrell and Mike Rake with humility and good grace.

Lena Wilson stepped down as head of quango Scottish Enterprise earlier this year after blowing public funds on a limousine company while on a junket in New York.

Rival Boeing had complained Bombardier was unfairly undercutting it in the US with the help of subsidies from Canada. Around 1,000 workers in Belfast, Northern Ireland, make wings for the firm.

There is nothing soft and cuddly about the way that the rapacious private equity owners of Toys R Us in Britain engaged in an exercise in brinkmanship on the eve of the Christmas break.

Max Conze was accused in High Court papers of leaking secrets but denied the allegations. He had threatened to counter-sue his former employer, where he worked for six years.

The company expects to make £33million next year from freehold reversion sales - profit that is now at risk following the Government's announcement.

The retailer has been criticised for the write off of a mystery £584.5m loan to a company based in the British Virgin Islands, a territory commonly used by companies for tax avoidance purposes.

Government borrowing fell in November, as ministers borrowed £200million less than a year ago. They needed £8.7billion to cover spending - the lowest figure for November since 2007.

Wizz Air has added three new routes from London Luton Airport starting in spring 2018. Flights are to Athens in Greece, Keflavik in Iceland, and Bari in Italy.

Former Shell director Malcom Brinded (pictured) is among fifteen ex oil bosses due to stand trial in Italy over alleged corruption over an £800m field in Nigeria.