Berkeley said it was preparing to mount a legal challenge after its proposals to build nearly 900 homes in Peckham in south-east London were rejected for a second time.
The high street stalwart reported a 28.8% fall in annual pre-tax profits to £365m after the incident which brought its online fashion sales to a halt for seven weeks.
Ryan Breslow, chief exec of software group Bolt, laid off almost a third of the workforce in April, saying of the HR team: 'Those problems disappeared when I let them go.
The challenger banks have improved cashback deals, but both have different qualifying spends and one emerges as a frontrunner with a much higher earning potential.
Business journalists put one over their corporate PR counterparts on Friday night in the annual Hacks v Flaks charity football match against the communications industry.