The Oscars 2021: Our predictions for the big winners April 22, 2021 Hollywood’s big, back slapping Oscar party arrives on Sunday, but as with other awards ceremonies, the film industry will have to congratulate itself from a distance. It will be a different kind of awards, with a rumoured additional venue in London, but the same amount of anticipation regarding who will take home a gold statuette. [...]
GB News: What is the new TV channel and when will it launch? April 22, 2021 There’s been a flurry of announcements in recent weeks ahead of the launch of GB News, a new opinion-led channel promising the biggest shakeup of British broadcast media for 30 years. The venture has caused a stir, with no shortage of controversy over its promise to take a “boldly different” approach. Plans are still being [...]
£2.3bn Aggreko takeover ‘in doubt’ after shareholder revolt April 21, 2021 The multi-billion pound takeover of FTSE 250 firm Aggreko has been thrust into uncertainty tonight after the company’s biggest shareholder said it would vote against the deal. Liontrust Asset Management, which owns 12 per cent of the energy provider, is set to oppose the deal, Sky News reported tonight. The news comes just a month [...]
BA inks deal with £60 PCR test firm in boost to summer holiday plans April 21, 2021 Exclusive: BA inks deal provide £60 PCR tests in boost to summer holiday plans
Virgin Atlantic boss expects to fly full fleet by October April 21, 2021 Virgin Atlantic is eyeing October or November this year to be back flying its full fleet, its chief executive said today. The comment forecasts the end of the pandemic crisis for airlines, as the majority of flights have been grounded for over a year. “We are by no means out of this situation, we will [...]
Chemical giant Innospec ends Elementis pursuit as $1.3bn bid rejected April 20, 2021 US chemicals giant Innospec has today pulled out of its pursuit of FTSE 250 firm Elementis after a $1.3bn (£930m) bid for the firm was rejected. Last night Sky News reported that the US firm had tabled a bid for the fellow chemicals firm. In a statement after markets closed in the UK today, Elementis [...]
Hong Kong Racing Tips: Capital to Star for Caspar Fownes April 20, 2021 TRAINER Caspar Fownes will surely be praying to the gods of fortune for a change of luck before he arrives at Happy Valley today. The former champion trainer hasn’t had a winner since he saddled Sky Darci to victory in the Hong Kong Derby on March 21st. A losing sequence of 55 may look bad [...]
Bankers appointed to find buyers for Rugby World Cup commercial rights April 20, 2021 The Rugby World Cup could be set for a commercial shake-up with City bankers now working with rugby’s governing body. Jefferies and Rothschild have been appointed by World Rugby to appraise their fundraising options after a year disrupted by Covid-19, Sky News’ Mark Kleinman has reported. Sources told Kleinman that the body would speak to [...]
The hidden impact of Brexit: Supply chains are failing UK trade and construction firms April 20, 2021 Since the reopening of the construction sector in the summer of 2020, confidence has been sky high, with last month’s the highest on record since 2014. According to figures from IHS Markit/CIPS, the growth of output had grown in line with increased commercial, domestic and civil engineering projects. These works have largely come in the form of restarting delayed projects, critically [...]
Furious UEFA warns clubs: Join European Super League and we will ban you and your players April 20, 2021 UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has warned the football body is working to ban breakaway European Super League clubs and their players from its competitions “as soon as possible” and urged domestic leagues to follow suit. Twelve clubs, including the Premier League’s so-called ‘big six’, are part of plans which would fundamentally alter the shape of [...]