Portrait of the week | 8 August 2013

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Retail sales enjoyed their fastest July growth in seven years, thanks to demand for beer, sun cream, swimwear and barbecue food. Manufacturing output rose by 1.9 per cent in June, following declines in both April and May. Lloyds Banking Group announced profits of £2.1 billion for the first half of the year and António Horta-Osório, its chief executive, said he expected it to pay out 70 per cent of profits in dividends by 2015. Sir Ian Andrews resigned as the chairman of the Serious Organised Crime Agency after failing to declare a directorship in a management consultancy firm. A report by Professor Don Berwick, a former health adviser to President Barack Obama, called for criminal charges when ‘wilful or reckless neglect’ harmed patients, but he stopped short of proposing a duty of candour under which all mistakes must be admitted to patients. The Duke of Edinburgh is to resume public engagements on 12 August, two months after an operation on his abdomen.