The strike planned by British Airways cabin crew this weekend will disrupt the plans of 30,000 passengers a day and cost the company up to £100m. The prime minister has called the action "deplorable". But the Labour party depends heavily on the Unite union's financial support dividing loyalties across the government. We look at how the matter can be resolved – and at what cost.
With next week's budget looming large the European commission has called on the government to slash Britain's deficit quicker. Our experts give their predictions on what will come out of Alistair Darling's red box.
And a newly released report on how Lehman Brothers collapsed "reads like a bestseller" says the US judge who commissioned it. But now the spotlight is on London law firm Linklaters and the bank's auditor Ernst & Young.
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