No Time To Die: Latest James Bond set to break Box Office records October 4, 2021 A range of betting houses have cut the price from 10-1 to 7-1 for new James Bond movie No Time To Die to become the highest grossing UK film of all-time. The UK’s widest theatrical release of all time opened to five-star reviews in 772 cinemas in the UK and Ireland on Thursday. And box office expectations are high, [...]
UK businesses’ research and development investments climb to record £47bn October 4, 2021 The amount spent by UK businesses on research and development has jumped 15 per cent to £47bn last year, a record high and up from £41bn the year before, according to new data shared with City A.M. this morning. says UHY Hacker Young, the national accountancy group. The figures show that UK businesses also claimed [...]
UCL professor resigns from Science Museum board over oil and gas cash October 4, 2021 Professor of Climate Science Chris Rapley CBE resigned this weekend from the Science Museum’s Advisory Board over the issue of fossil fuel sponsorship and the museum’s willingness to accept money from major oil and gas companies, including Shell. Rapley, who is currently Professor of Climate Science at UCL, has long-standing ties with the Science Museum, [...]
Flutter makes Amy Howe new boss of FanDuel with US spinoff still on the cards October 4, 2021 Betting group Flutter Entertainment said this morning it has appointed Amy Howe as the new chief of its FanDuel arm as the company continues to consider spinning off the US business. Howe joined sportsbook and fantasy sport business FanDuel as president in February before becoming its interim chief executive in July. Her appointment comes after [...]
Pressure mounts on Facebook and Nick Clegg as whistleblower does not hold back October 4, 2021 Facebook and its vice president of policy and public affairs, Nick Clegg, are increasingly under pressure as a whistleblower has come forward, making a range of damaging claims. Firstly, Facebook prematurely turned off safeguards designed to thwart misinformation after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in last year’s elections in a moneymaking move, the whistleblower claims. [...]
Newspaper tycoon Lord Rothermere has until 28 October to make £800m Daily Mail offer September 30, 2021 Since negotiations are taking longer than expected, newspaper tycoon Lord Rothermere has been granted a one-month extension to make an offer for the group behind the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Metro newspapers. A previous deadline was set for today but negotiations with the pension trustees at the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT) [...]
Jordan: Katie Price to face sentencing in December as she checks in at Priory for rehab September 29, 2021 Katie Price has been told that her sentencing has been deferred until December 15 to allow her to have treatment at the Priory Centre and speak to the probation service. Chair of the bench Julie Hutton told her she was free to go but warned her against driving in the interim. Earlier this afternoon, Katie [...]
Schoolboy recording with The Beatles’ John Lennon and Yoko Ono fetches $75k at Danish auction September 29, 2021 A never-released-before cassette tape with an interview of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was sold at auction at Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers last night. The recording was made during the couple’s winter visit to Thy in Northern Jutland in 1970. On the 33-minute recording, a conversation between the famous couple and four 16-year-old Danish schoolboys can [...]
007 verdict is in: No Time To Die is spectacular final outing for Daniel Craig’s James Bond September 29, 2021 The critics widely agree this morning that the pandemic-delayed film was well worth the wait, while Daniel Craig has described the final cinematic journey of his James Bond as “spectacular”. The blockbuster’s stars including Craig, Lea Seydoux and Lashana Lynch joined with a quartet of leading royals, celebrities such as Stormzy and young US Open [...]
James Bond has No Time To Die as 007 climbs London eye ahead of tonight’s film premiere September 28, 2021 Wearing a dinner jacket, Britain’s most famous secret service agent was suspended hundreds of feet above the ground as 007 climbed up a ladder dangling from a pod on the London Eye. James Bond, or admittedly a man dressed as the agent, performed a daring stunt ahead of the world premiere of the new 007 [...]