Virgin Group
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Inter City Railways, 90% owned by Stagecoach, will bring London-Edinburgh line back into private hands after five years
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The east coast mainline rail service is returning to the private sector, with a Virgin and Stagecoach joint venture winning the franchise. With Directly Operated Railways returning more than £1bn to the government since 2009, did it need to be reprivatised?
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First IPO for a US airline since 2011 sees Virgin America’s stock jump as much as 28% in market debut as shares raise $307m
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Entrepreneur is selling 15% of his stake in the bank, whose stock market listing was delayed from October
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Peter Siebold was unaware that system controlling descent had been unlocked early by co-pilot Michael Alsbury, who died in crash
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IPO could bring bank’s boss Jayne-Anne Gadhia a multimillion-pound windfall from share awards
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Company reveals 3% of customers have cancelled as investigators release analysis of pilots’ actions prior to crash
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Letters: Earth no longer has what Rosa Luxemburg called an ‘outside’ – a non-capitalist realm in which new investments can be profitably made. But Branson and other investors such as Elon Musk have an answer to this problem
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Flotation back on after Bank of England gives clarity on leverage ratio and more stable market conditions, says chief executive
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Descent system was unlocked two seconds before SpaceShipTwo disintegrated, but what happened next is unclear
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Safety board chairman says premature deployment of feathering system ‘a statement of fact and not a statement of cause’
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Sir Richard Branson hits out at 'self-proclaimed' experts who asserted that an explosion brought down the Virgin Galactic space-plane last week
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US investigators say that a function designed to help Virgin Galactic's crashed space plane descend was deployed early during the accident
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Wilson da Silva: I’m devastated for the pilots and the families of those involved in the Mojave tragedy. But I will still take my place as one of the first 100 to fly with Virgin Galactic
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US transport officials say report of what caused SpaceShipTwo crash in California desert may not be published for up to a year
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George Whitesides raised concerns over re-entry to atmosphere but believed fuel was safe in comments last month
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Virgin boss says dream will live on only if engineers can identify and overcome cause of fatal accident that claimed life of a test pilot in Mojave desert
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Virgin Group's founder Richard Branson answers questions on the future of his Virgin Galactic project, after SpaceShipTwo crashed in California's Mojave desert during a test flight on Friday
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The wreckage of SpaceShipTwo suggests that engineers are still a long way from making rocketry safe for paying passengers
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Virgin boss puts on a brave face after SpaceShipTwo disaster but future of Virgin Galactic in hands of US crash investigators and Arab investors
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Tycoon offers refunds to those who have already paid to travel into space
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Entrepreneur visits Mojave desert base after crash that killed test pilot and says, ‘Millions still want to go into space’
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Virgin Galactic said plane designed for commercial space travel was undertaking test flight in California when an ‘in-flight anomaly’ occurred
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One of two pilots on board the experimental Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo craft was killed when it crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert of California
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Founder of Virgin Galactic believed in 2004 that commercial space travel was just three years away but string of failures has plunged future into doubt
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Branson calls on UK politicians to be brave and ‘bite the bullet’ by aiming for two new runways at Heathrow
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Businesses are trying to retain staff with ever more radical perks and benefits but are companies falsely assuming their employees’ needs and goals?
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George Whitesides expects to have his honeymoon in space, amid doubts about whether Virgin Galactic will ever take off
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The demise of Little Red joins a string of Virgin failures from makeup to bridal wear to alcohol
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Each of once-nationalised Northern Rock’s 2,800 staff to net £1,000 in shares, with taxpayer set for £50m payout
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Bank expected to begin promoting listing within days and will provide £50m windfall for taxpayer under deal with Treasury
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Editorial: Take as much holiday as you like, says Richard Branson. If you dare
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Sir Richard Branson believes his 170-strong staff in his private office should take as much holiday as they like, when they like – no questions asked. Do you agree or disagree?
Notebook Coming your way: non-stop Richard Branson