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John Lewis has posted falling sales for the third week running. The department
store said that sales fell by 2.8 per cent to £44.3m for the week to 24 May.

Tesco is to reward its UK employees with nearly £100m worth of free shares.
The world’s third largest retailer is to award £92m worth of shares – a
record amount - to 193,000 of its employees who have worked at Tesco for
more than one year.

If a company’s directors don’t have sufficient confidence to hold on to its
shares, why should investors? Directors’ dealings are widely followed both
in the City and amongst private investors for good reason – it seems
perfectly logical that directors with the inside track on their companies’
performance are likely to make sensible decisions about share sales and
purchases.

A crane has collapsed at a Manhattan construction site.

One in seven women will develop breast cancer if present health trends
continue, experts warned today.

Having dismissed Lancashire for 89 in the rain-ruined Friends Provident Trophy
match here on Wednesday, Yorkshire might have been tempted, on a damp, misty
morning, to have another bowl in spite of their long injury list, had they
won the toss.

This season for Mark Ramprakash is turning rapidly into his own Groundhog Day.
The Surrey batsman has now failed with five attempts to nail down the
hundredth hundred of his first class career.