By Lauren Mills, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Feb. 4--She is an unlikely kingmaker in retail Britain. A secretive American mother of four young children, Amelia Morris gives the impression that she likes nothing more than curling up with a company's balance sheet.

TOPSHOP will not use ultra-skinny models in its London Fashion Week catwalk show, the chain's boss said yesterday. Sir Philip Green, head of Arcadia Group which owns Topshop, said only healthy looking models would take part.

By Evening Standard, London Jan. 6--Some 20,000 British workers at IBM are facing the closure of their gold-plated pension schemes.