The top shops we’d hate to lose

The recession has ravaged high streets up and down the land, with Woolworths, Zavvi, Adams and Whittards among the well known chains to bite the dust.

Housing got us into this mess and it can get us out

It’s a brave man who calls the bottom of the housing market and an even braver one who calls the bottom of wider economic crisis. Yesterday Bank of England governor Mervyn King was doing neither of these things, going out of his way to play down any talk of green shoots and lower expectations of a quick recovery.