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Evening Standard, London, Business Insider column.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2004

Evening Standard, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 20--EXTRAORDINARY news from billionaire entrepreneur Philip Green: He has switched his mobile phone off! Is the great man really enjoying a few weeks' break? Or is he, as retail gossips would have it, putting the finishing touches to a major autumn advertising campaign for his Bhs and Arcadia businesses, aimed at making life extremely uncomfortable for Stuart Rose's Marks & Spencer?

MEANWHILE, BBC reporters issued with brand new pagers in recent weeks should not bother clipping them to their belts. The service, from mmO2, is being withdrawn later this year, leaving several hundred useless lumps of plastic cluttering the BBC newsroom. Pager use has plummeted but earlier this year...

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