Business week in pictures

Stephen Hester, chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland. The bank came under fire over performance-related bonus targets for Hester and other top staff, which critics attacked for being 'not sufficiently stretching' Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

Disused diesel and petrol pumps in a scrap yard in Scotland. Local authorities are to campaign for public money to retain a network of filling stations in the Highlands and Islands as closures accelerate there Photograph: Murdo MacLeod

A demonstration of the new Palm Pre smartphone at the annual Consumer Electronics Show. O2, which secured exclusive UK rights to Apple's acclaimed iPhone, clinched a similar deal to stock the Pre, which technology-watchers believe may become the iPhone's closest competitor Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters

Don Ward, founder and owner of the Comedy Store venues in central London and Manchester, announced a £1m plan to export the concept to Mumbai Photograph: Gary Calton

Travellers using the inter-terminal 'air bridge' at Gatwick Airport. British Airways, easyJet and Ryanair have urged Gatwick's owner, BAA, to cut back work on its £900m improvement scheme at Gatwick airport as passenger numbers fall in the recession Photograph: Graeme Robertson

A boy packs groceries at the checkouts of one of Tesco's Fresh & Easy food stores in California. Tesco's chief executive, Sir Terry Leahy, scooped a bonus of £3.7m, boosting his annual pay to more than £5m, although missed sales targets and problems at Fresh & Easy meant he earned less than he did last year Photograph: Danny Moloshok/Reuters

A Virgin Atlantic aircraft coming in to land at Heathrow Airport. After a profitable 2008, the airline said it would slip into a loss this year after warning that no long-haul airline will make a profit in 2009 because of a decline in business traffic – the main source of revenue for transatlantic carriers Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters

A Morrisons supermarket in Gamston, Nottingham. Morrisons is growing at the fastest rate of Britain's big four supermarkets, with Tesco, the market leader, currently lagging behind the pack, according to data published this week Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

Pedestrians pass an Abbey bank branch in London, owned by Spanish group Santander. Santander is to discontinue the Abbey, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley brands it now owns and replace them with its own name on the UK's high streets Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

A man takes a picture of the Houses of Parliament. Struggling British camera retailer Jessops warned that shareholders would be wiped out when it delisted from the London Stock Exchange and restructured its £60m debt Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP

A man looks at expensive watches in the Jaeger-LeCoultre shop window in Old Bond Street in London. The number of British millionaires has fallen from 489,000, at the peak of the boom in 2007, to 242,000 Photograph: Sarah Lee