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The Standard interviews Westfield UK COO Scott Parsons about his vision for the future of London's biggest shopping malls

After bankruptcy of Birmingham, Surrey town’s Lib Dem leader says ‘We can see the iceberg coming’

John Lewis is a doughty symbol of London retail, but that does not guarantee it a bricks-and-mortar future. Gamages on Holborn traded in everything from toys to supplying the army with catapults during the First World War, but was an anachronism in swinging London by the Seventies, while Dickins &…

“If the novelists P.G. Wodehouse, Jackie Collins and Naguib Mahfouz had been asked to pool their creative talents, they would have struggled to invent a character as bold and controversial as Mohamed Al Fayed,” said Andrew Anthony in The Observer.

The larger-than-life ex-Harrods owner, who has died aged 94, was never far from the headlines or controversy but was an indomitably bold figure

Former owner of Harrods and Fulham FC whose stormy relationship with British institutions denied him citizenship

The controversial and often abrasive businessman Mohamed Al Fayed has died aged 94

Mohamed Al-Fayed, former owner of the famed Harrods department store in London whose son was killed in a car crash with Princess Diana, has died, according to the football club he once owned

The controversial and often abrasive businessman Mohamed Al Fayed has died.

Group says pre-tax profits almost doubled to £660m as Sports Direct improved margins