Creditors say Chowdery owes £50m
12:00 a.m., Mon - Creditors are claiming more than £50m in the bankruptcy petition against Altrincham-based property developer Nabeel Chowdery.

Clients urge regulators to act over claims firm
12:00 a.m., Mon - Customers of Manchester-based financial claims management firm Cartel Client Review are calling for regulators to take action after it emerged that both the Ministry of Justice and the Solicitors' Regulation Authority are carrying out...

New face of St James
12:00 a.m., Mon - The red carpets, the wood panelling and the silverware will remain, but the 175-year-old St James's Club is about to undergo a quiet revolution. It has appointed Alex Rhodes to a new post of full time operations manager. It's the first time the...

MOSI: 'Let us reopen Corrie Street set to general public'
12:00 a.m., Mon - The Greater Manchester Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) wants to take over the Coronation Street set if broadcaster ITV Granada moves to MediaCity.

The great cash dash
12:00 a.m., Mon - State aid is not just for banks. The government has begun handing out money from the £200m UK Innovation Investment Fund, which will fund small to medium-sized businesses in life sciences, digital and advanced manufacturing.

Curtains for Windows' mobile plans?
12:00 a.m., Mon - Microsoft is looking to reverse the steady decline of Windows as a mobile phone platform with the high profile rebranding of its smartphone operating system as Windows Phone 7 Series. Experts in the mobile field, however, believe winning back...

How iPad could make multitouch come of age
12:00 a.m., Mon - Up until recently, few people outside the academic field of Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) had heard of the word "multitouch'. It took 25 years to mature from a research project at Apple into the extremely popular iPhone interface, but it's already...

A virtual year in computing
12:00 a.m., Mon - Server virtualisation is no longer just a buzzword for IT managers. According to a recent survey by analysts at Gartner, it's the number one technology priority for business leaders.

On the Street and off the Cuff
12:00 a.m., Mon - The launch event for last week's Soccerex forum, which took place in Manchester's Town Hall, was a remarkable thing. It was a star-studded affair and as the event was tied in to the city's bid to play host if England bags the World Cup in...

Air needs to be cleared
12:00 a.m., Mon - Since the news broke last week that Cartel Client Review — the biggest of the Manchester-based financial claims firms — is under investigation by the Ministry of Justice, scores of customers have told tales of woe. A common theme seems...

Warning sends down WH Ireland shares
12:00 a.m., Mon - A warning that there could be “more turbulence ahead” overshadowed a narrowing of full-year pre-tax losses at Manchester-based stockbroking and financial services company WH Ireland. The shares fell 8 per cent to 37p. Just over...