The Latest Breaking News from Richard Branson

From a compelling rags to riches story or life changing invention - we take a look at the UK's business people who have become famous beyond the boardroom

While we’re on the subject of swashbuckling billionaires, Richard Branson has lately proposed lowering speed limits, a move he says will save gasoline and thereby reduce the flow of money to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war machine. I’m all for defeating Putin, but making drivers slow down would have little…

Are you ready for the ultimate trip? Get saving now because in a future not so far, far away space travel will no longer be science fiction. Samuel Fishwick explores the final frontier in luxury tourism

Gerard Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh on being bombarded by hippies at Knebworth in 1978, being told off by Neil Young and their unreleased jam sessions with Bowie and Eno in Cologne

Billionaire Branson backed 2022 Grand National hero Noble Yeats, ridden by family friend Sam Waley-Cohen - and also had a 100-1 winner at the Kentucky Derby

Richard Branson’s cruise venture Virgin Voyages will be full up in Miami as it brings two ships to sail from the Magic City this fall. So for its newest ship Resilient Lady, the line is venturing to Puerto Rico to take on the Southern Caribbean.

After a trip to space last summer on his own rocket plane, Sir Richard Branson now wants to take another journey beyond the clouds, but this time in a SpaceX rocket.

It’s not long since billionaires were competing to get to the “edge of space”. Now, the first set of private citizens are getting ready to take a SpaceX shuttle up to the International Space Station (ISS). Unlike the short “joyrides” of Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos, this mission will be…

Millionaire Sir Freddie Laker’s no-frills Skytrain airline went bust 40 years ago - we look back at the man who Richard Branson said was a mentor and the airline's turbulent descent