Tue Jun 18, 2013 3:16am EDT. LONDON, June 18 (Reuters) - Airbus clinched a deal on Tuesday worth about $11 billion to supply British budget airline easyJet with 135 planes, dealing a blow to its U.S.

LONDON | Tue Jun 18, 2013 7:31am BST. LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Whitbread (WTB.L) posted a 3.1 percent rise in first quarter sales, as demand for hot drinks at its Costa Coffee chain helped ease the impact of cold weather on its restaurant business.

Bankers on the panel would advise the Government on developments in the banking industry and provide an official conduit for conversations between senior politicians and executives.

The Co-operative Bank is going public, listing shares on the stock market to plug a �1.5bn black hole in its balance sheet. The bank unveiled a deal with the Prudential Regulation Authority yesterday that will see its bondholders paying the penalty for its ...

You will not be surprised to learn that I wasn't exactly thrilled last Friday afternoon to be tasked with interviewing some of those worthy individuals who were awarded �gongs� in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

An aircraft maintenance business co-founded by the lead singer of Iron Maiden is set to be pumped with a �5m investment in what will help the company have a �much wider impact across the entire South Wales aerospace industry�.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is set to begin the first criminal prosecution in the LIBOR-rigging scandal and could charge a former UBS and Citigroup trader this week, The Times reports.

Legal & General (L&G) has promoted one of its senior staff to finance director after the insurer's external candidate was disapproved of by the regulator.

Anthony Bolton will give up managing the Fidelity China Special Situations fund and return to retirement after it failed to match the returns of the U.K.

The off-licence chain has said sales to �commercial� customers were up 13.6pc in year to April 1. Steve Lewis, chief executive, told The Daily Telegraph: �Where we're opening, you find that gastro-pubs and restaurants are coming to Majestic because of the ...