City stadium plans tipped to include luxury hotel tower
12:00 a.m., Mon - A landmark tall building, housing a five-star hotel owned and operated by Manchester City Football Club's Abu Dhabi owners, is expected to form a prominent part of plans for the regeneration of the area around the City of Manchester Stadium in...

Cartel stops new cases after law firm is shut
12:00 a.m., Mon - Cartel Client Review, a Manchester-based claims management firm which has taken payments of up to £495 from tens of thousands of customers, stopped taking cases from new clients last week.

Music to their ears
12:00 a.m., Mon - In The City, Manchester's annual contemporary music jamboree, has a new management team which believes the event could play a much bigger role in leveraging inward investment.

Oakes aims to make a splash in flash pads for high earners
12:00 a.m., Mon - The latest must-have for the Premier League footballer who has everything? A chute so that he can splash down in his indoor swimming pool a second or two after getting out of bed.

A sort code lottery?
12:00 a.m., Mon - The Royal Bank of Scotland Group's plan to divest part of its branch network could have a bigger impact on business customers than many of them expect.

To Infinity and beyond, as 2010 gets off to confident start
12:00 a.m., Mon - Manchester-based private equity fund Infinity Asset Management is expecting to ramp up deal activity in the first few months of 2010 following a quiet 2009 dominated by its bid for Manchester-based property developer Ask.

Here to stay in city of opportunity
12:00 a.m., Mon - Altium Capital, the London-based investment bank which has moved its Manchester office into 4,000 sq ft in the Belvedere building on Booth Street, sees a “massive opportunity” to do deals in the North West.

On the Street and off the Cuff
12:00 a.m., Mon - Lawrence Jones, managing director of web hosting business UKFast, made a new running buddy on a recent visit to a private island in the Caribbean. Billionaire Sir Richard Branson, in fact.

Fly in the ointment
12:00 a.m., Mon - Manchester Airport's duty free shops are going great guns. Year on year sales are up 7 per cent, better than the high street.

Eatonfield bounces back after £1m deal
12:00 a.m., Mon - Investors in Eatonfield breathed a sigh of relief last week when the Cheshire-based property group revealed on Thursday that one of its joint venture partners had come to its rescue with a £900,000 equity injection.