• Change of tune at EMI
EMI Music's chief executive has shocked the market by quitting weeks before the group was due to draw up a growth plan critical to its future. The beleaguered music label has appointed the former ITV chief executive Charles Allen to replace him.
• The Icelandic toy story
Even being bombed five times during the Blitz didn't stop staff keeping Hamleys' store on London's Regent Street open throughout the Second World War. They just donned tin hats.
• The disappearing mutuals
Another mutual looks set to bite the dust with the announcement of merger talks between Coventry, the UK's third largest building society, and its smaller rival, the Stroud & Swindon. The confirmation of merger discussions comes just weeks after the Chesham was swallowed by the much larger Skipton in a deal that didn't look far off a rescue, although the two sides insisted that this wasn't the case.
