Few contemporary British authors have had as much success writing in two genres as David Storey in fiction and drama. His first novel, This Sporting Life (1960), brought him the Macmillan Fiction Award, and his sixth novel, Saville (1976), elicited Brita...

Few contemporary British authors have had as much success writing in two genres as David Storey in fiction and drama. His first novel, This Sporting Life (1960), brought him the Macmillan Fiction Award, and his sixth novel, Saville (1976), elicited Brita...

For a number of years before he wrote plays, David Storey was known as a novelist, one of the voices of the working class in the English Midlands and the North, like Alan Sillitoe and Stan Barstow, who came into prominence in the late 1950s and early 196...

Gasoline prices extended their advance at the pump Friday, while gas futures fell again on a growing sense that supplies are catching up to demand.Oil futures, meanwhile, jumped more than $1 to new 11-month highs on concerns about supply disruptions in the North Sea and...

Oil prices retreated Monday from a new 11-month high, following gasoline futures lower on word that refineries in New Jersey and England were restarting.Gas prices, meanwhile, extended their decline at the pump. Retail prices often fall in the middle of the summer before ticking higher...

Regulators have launched an investigation into allegations that the Canadian divisions of Nestle, Cadbury, Hershey and others have teamed up in a price-fixing scheme in the multibillion-dollar Canadian business of chocolate bars, company officials confirmed Wednesday.Canada's Competition Bureau went to the offices of Nestle in...

In the new world of fashion marketing, it's all about flooding the zone. Brands such as Stella McCartney have understood that glossy magazine ads are no longer the most effective way of reaching their audience.Instead, they are using methods like street pamphleteering, Web sites and...