City sounds alarm on £40bn foreign M&A offensive targeting ‘cheap’ UK firms Markets A group of City grandees has sounded the alarm on the wave of foreign firms picking off rivals from London’s stock market, after a flurry of unsolicited offers took the combined value of UK companies poised to leave Britain’s ailing bourse to £43bn. Some 22 listed companies have already accepted or received bids that would […]
‘I’ll be standing’: Streeting gears up to join leadership race as Burnham vows to save Labour Politics
Renters’ rights act: what does it mean for landlords, rent hikes, tenants and no-fault evictions? Property
On this day in 1940: McDonald’s is born in a strange kitchen in California Opinion On this day in 1940, Mac and Dick McDonald opened an octagonal kitchen in San Bernardino and changed food forever, writes Eliot Wilson.
London Marathon’s staggering popularity isn’t about running at all Sport Business Why does one in 50 UK adults want to run the London Marathon? Maybe because it’s an oasis of joy in a desert of doldrums, says Matt Readman. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, as breadlines lengthened and unemployment spread across entire cities, something unexpected happened: people laughed more. Or at least, they looked […]
Savvy has Brilliant chance under Purton Sport RACEGOERS in Hong Kong will be praying the gods of fortune are on their side when they arrive at Sha Tin for an 11-race programme on Sunday. Not only are they faced with a host of head-scratching and competitive handicaps, but they have the added dilemma of what the weather will be like before the […]
Episode 86: Roger Teal on Dancing Gemini and Oxted, York Dante Festival and Lockinge Day at Newbury Sport
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