Hornby offloads toy car brand Scalextric for £20m February 27, 2026 Hornby, the model railway firm advised by Mike Ashley, has agreed to sell toy car racing brand Scalextric for £20m. Castelnau, Hornby’s parent company, announced on Friday it will sell the toy brand to Purbeck Capital Partners. Hornby, which also sells toy planes and cars under the Airfix and Corgi brands, has owned Scalextric since [...]
Pearson boss shrugs off investor AI fears after share jitters February 27, 2026 The boss of Pearson has shrugged off shareholder concerns that the company’s services could be usurped by the rising use of AI chatbots. Earlier in the year the education giant was one of a number of London-listed data and software-led stocks, including the likes of Sage and Relx, that suffered steep selloffs amid investor anxieties [...]
City AM partners with SCALE expo for flagship event February 27, 2026 City AM has partnered with the SCALE expo and summit, a flagship gathering of founders, investors and business leaders at London’s Business Design Centre. The summit will take place on the 22nd and 23rd of April, connecting ambitious founders with London’s best capital, talent and tools. SME XPO was relaunched as Scale by Sam North [...]
London Broncos signs deal with Australian fintech OFX February 27, 2026 London Broncos have expanded their sponsorship portfolio, signing a deal with global financial operations company OFX. It comes as London Broncos, the only major English rugby league club south of the sport’s northern heartlands, seek promotion to the Super League having been acquired by an Australian consortium fronted by former Brisbane Broncos legend Darren Lockyer. [...]
Gale Partners With Royal Collection Trust to Digitise State Papers of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII February 27, 2026 Historic papers made available online for the first time, offering new insight into Victorian and Edwardian Britain
FTSE 100 Live: Pound hits two month low after byelection, Flutter shares tumble February 27, 2026 Good morning and welcome back to the City AM liveblog. We were treated to a whole host of corporate updates yesterday and investors in some of the City’s biggest blue-chips were handed plans for bumper returns. Aerospace giant Rolls-Royce revealed ambitions to dish out up to £9bn to shareholders through from 2026 to 2028. The [...]
Project Forge: Does the plan to save English rugby stack up? February 27, 2026 This morning a plan that could alter the future of club rugby in England is expected to be nodded through by the RFU Council. The plan, dubbed Project Forge, could be the tonic for a domestic game that is in need of revenue boost. Based on the various reports I have read this week on [...]
Universal handed £6m of taxpayer cash to film Hamnet despite raking in profits of £810m February 27, 2026 American filmmaking giant Universal was handed a £5.7 million government subsidy to make period drama Hamnet even though the studio generated £810 million in profit last year. The blockbuster’s cost to taxpayers is revealed in filings for the film which won the coveted honour of Outstanding British Film at the Baftas on Sunday. The heartbreaking [...]
Janus Henderson Confirms Receipt of Unsolicited, Non-Binding Proposal February 26, 2026 No Shareholder Action Required at the Time
Birmingham driving service sector boom February 26, 2026 Birmingham has been at the front of a “service sector boom”, according to new research from Oxford Economics, helping to drive job creation across the wider region. The West Midlands combined authority (WMCA), which contains Britain’s second city, saw gross value added (GVA) in the services sector rise by an average of 4.2 per cent [...]