Ben Marlow
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Associate editor and columnist, Telegraph
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Joined August 2010
🚨PERSONAL NEWS🚨 This weekend I edited my last Sun @telebusiness section after 4 fantastic years in one of Fleet Street’s best jobs. Delighted to be taking on the role of the Telegraph’s new city commentator and that v. talented @cg_williams will be the next Sun business editor
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EXCLUSIVE River Island at risk of collapse within weeks with @PuiGuanM.
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Retailer puts forward radical rescue plan to stave off looming liquidity crisis
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RT @tashecon: Ukraine - hearing chatter that Trump might sanction use of $8bn in CBR assets in US to pay for arms supplies to Ukraine. This….
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RT @PaulNuki: Today the Taliban rule Afghanistan with an iron fist. People are starving, there is virtually no health care and women and gi….
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Draconian restrictions introduced by the Taliban are preventing girls and women from accessing medical care and doctors, say families
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Laughable capitulation from Direct Line board: Aviva strikes £3.6bn deal to buy motor insurance rival Direct Line
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Direct Line has accepted a provisional takeover offer from larger rival Aviva
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EXCLUSIVE Post Office scraps bonus for outgoing chief executive Nick Read - with @j_a_warrington
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Loss of pay comes at end of five-year tenure that featured numerous disputes over remuneration
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RT @j_a_warrington: Exc: The Gambling Commission is preparing to settle a £200m claim brought by Richard Desmond over the running of the Na….
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Asda bosses are fiddling while Rome burns - my latest column
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How quickly the supermarket can strengthen its stretched finances is far more important than who’s in charge
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The Range in talks to save 70 Homebase stores as the DIY chain calls in the administrators. Deal will save 1,600 jobs. The future of many more stores and hundreds of other jobs uncertain however. Story here:
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Multimillion-pound deal to save nearly 1,600 jobs as DIY chain calls in administrators
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EXCLUSIVE Thames Water creditors seek peace deal in scramble to avoid nationalisation
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Calls for detente with Ofwat amid fears that breakdown in relations will speed up utility giant’s demise
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Exclusive: Barclay family launches forced sale of online retail Very Group after debt reprieve from private equity giant Carlyle
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Dwindling business empire to offload retailer in bid to tackle mounting debts
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Your daily reminder that Thames Water, which 15m people rely on for water and sewage, is Britain’s biggest corporate basket case:
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Water company explores radical plans amid struggles with £18bn debt pile
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We are all at the mercy of Thames Water's foreign ownership - my Friday column
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Shareholders and lenders overseas won’t be swayed by political or public pressure
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RT @LukeVanceBarr: NEW: Troubled supplier Thames Water set to hold crisis meeting with unions tomorrow.
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Supplier warned against job cuts after withdrawal of £500m lifeline
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Have Thames Water's shareholders thrown in the towel or is this a high stakes game of bluff with the Government and Ofwat? How Thames Water's demands for higher bills took it to the brink - with @mattotele + @bymichaelbow
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Huge debt pile threatens to sink utility giant, but households could pay the price
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The answer to John Lewis's problems was staring it in the face and staff are entitled to feel like they have paid a heavy price for management's floundering - my Friday column
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The retailer is on the right track at last – but its floundering has been costly
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How Morrisons' debt burden made it a supermarket loser - @hannaheboland and I dig into the worsening finances of the Bradford-based grocer
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Retailer’s fight to win back market share is being undermined by a growing interest bill
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I had the pleasure of writing this Sunday’s news focus with @LukeVanceBarr @mattotele and @Lucymburton
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How the UK’s biggest airport seeks to wave goodbye to turbulent times
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How China plans to save its economy by flooding the West with cheap cars - big read with @eirnolsoe
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An EV invasion threatens to run European carmakers off the road
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