Dr Martens’ profits fall by over half after it awards £49.1m in staff bonuses

By Harriet Johnston for MailOnline   Klaus Märtens was a doctor in the German army during World War II. While on leave in 1945, he injured his ankle while skiing in the Bavarian Alps.  He found that his standard-issue army boots were too uncomfortable on his injured foot.  While recuperating, he designed improvements to the boots, … Read more

Essex traders who made £491m in one day face US legal challenge

Dawn was still hours away when the Essex Boys crept out of bed and fired up their banks of computers. With their high-powered machines, they could speculate at lightning speed on the lucrative commodities markets 3,500 miles away in New York. And in the bare-knuckle trading pits where their mentor, Paul ‘Cuddles’ Commins, had learned … Read more