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Integral to produce film about boxing champ’s rags to riches life story

A LIVERPOOL company has landed the job of producing the DVD life story of world boxing champion Joe Calzaghe. Read

Health staff sign up for campaign – to get themselves healthy!

HOSPITAL employees across Merseyside and Cheshire are being targeted by a pioneering programme. Read

London shares fall to three-year low

London’s leading shares plunged to a three-year low today as markets endured a second day of turmoil in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers collapse. Read

HBSO tries to reassure as shares fall 40%

Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) today sought to reassure investors over its funding, but failed to prevent its shares slumping for the second day in a row. Read

Bank of England pumps £20bn into money markets

The Bank of England pumped an extra £20 billion into short-term money markets today - four times the sum seen yesterday after Lehman’s collapse. Read

Aldi and Lidl see market share rise

Discount supermarkets have achieved further market share gains as customers respond to “low-price messages”, industry research showed today. Read

Debenhams records rise in sales

Department store chain Debenhams, one of the anchor stores at Liverpool One, allayed fears over trading today after reporting a “marked improvement” in business during August. Read

Economic crisis hits city’s rebuilding sector

FEARS were growing last night that the escalating crisis hitting the world’s financial markets was set to deepen the problems being faced by the region’s construction industry. Read

Directors get £1m merger pay-off

CHESHIRE Building Society chief executive Karen McCormick is to get a £224,000 pay-off as part of £1m in compensation being paid to directors of the Cheshire and Derbyshire building societies following their merger with Nationwide. Read

How the Lehman Brothers crash could affect you

ALTHOUGH nobody has a Lehman Brothers bank account, the impact of the Wall Street bank’s collapse is likely to be felt by mill-ions around the world. Read

Airbus factory sale ‘will have no impact on Broughton’

PART of a huge Airbus factory near Bristol is being sold to engineering giant GKN in a deal worth £136m – but the aircraft maker says the sale will have no effect on operations or jobs at its key wingmaking plant at Broughton, near Chester. Read

Lehman collapse wipes £9bn off pension schemes

Pension schemes saw £9 billion wiped off their value today as stock markets dived following the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers. Read

£50bn wiped off blue chip stocks in wake of Lehman demise

More than £50 billion was wiped off the value of blue chip stocks today as news of Lehman Brothers’ dramatic demise spread havoc throughout world stock markets. Read

Lehman Brothers ban collapse threatens thousands of jobs

THOUSDANDS of jobs were at risk today after the UK arm of troubled investment bank Lehman Brothers was placed into administration. Read

Businesses balloted over changes to city’s BID zones

BALLOT papers are being sent out to hundreds of Liverpool city centre businesses asking them to approve a new Business Improvement District (BID). Read

Fledging businesses pitch big ideas

FLEDGLING entrepreneurs presented their ideas before a panel of potential investors in the latest Dreamcatchers Liverpool event. Read

City property chief quits after five years

PROPERTY firm Bruntwood’s top man in Liverpool has left his job and will not be replaced. Read

Rent-free offer to fill Liverpool One shops

LIVERPOOL One has been forced to offer substantial rent-free periods in a bid to fill its shops. Read

XL chief 'devastated' by holiday firm's collapse

THE HEAD of the UK’s third largest tour operator said today he was “devastated” at the holiday company’s collapse. Read

Redundancies threat after port rates system shake-up

A HUGE hike in business rates at ports is threatening to put firms out of business and cause hundreds of redundancies in Merseyside. Read

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