These are my links for July 31st:

• FT.com / Companies / Financial services - Provident picks up business from the banks - The Bradford-based company said tighter credit conditions offered it an opportunity to expand its small-scale doorstep lending to low-income householders unable to borrow elsewhere. And so their abuse of the most vulnerable in our society continues.
• FT.com / Companies / Transport - United sues pilots’ union over cancellations - Capital v labour is getting ugly