In brief

Ted Baker’s share price rose sharply yesterday after the trendy fashion firm revealed another surge in sales.

An online and overseas push helped group takings grow 14% over the past 19 weeks.

Bungling British Airways has been blasted for proposing to outsource more than 1,000 call centre jobs to Capita.

Unions claim the outsourcing of computing jobs contributed to the airline’s recent IT meltdown.

Mick Rix, GMB national officer for aviation, said: “BA seems to want to become a virtual reality airline, with no employment responsibility.”