Half of shares in food giant Bakkavor going on sale August 11, 2014 Shareholders in ready meal supplier Bakkavor have hired Barclays to sell down their stakes in the food giant, it emerged yesterday, Almost half of the shares in the firm could be sold as a result. One quarter of the firm is owned by Icelandic lender Arion Banki, which was formed from the wreckage of Kaupthing [...]
Blythe and Swift upstage Wiggins in London-Surrey Classic August 10, 2014 BRITAIN’S Adam Blythe pipped childhood friend Ben Swift to win the RideLondon-Surrey Classic yesterday, as Sir Bradley Wiggins missed out on a capital hat-trick. NFTO’s Blythe and Team Sky’s Swift battled it out over the last 300m of the 200km race, which began in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and passed through Surrey before finishing [...]
Prudential RideLondon 2014 in pictures: Cyclists battle Bertha rainstorm on London streets August 10, 2014 Brave cyclists took to the streets today despite the heavy rainfall, light flooding and thunderstorms caused by storm Bertha in stark contrast to yesterday's sunshine. The second day of the cycling festival hosted the Surrey 100, Handcycle Classic and Surrey Classic races, however organisers were forced to shorten the route through Surrey due to rainfall [...]
Supermoon Sunday: Why the moon will look bigger tonight and why you hear more about giant moons since 2011 August 10, 2014 The moon will look larger when it appears in the sky tonight, creating a so-called supermoon that should wow sky-watchers. The moon will appear at its biggest and brightest than at any other time this year because its oval-shaped orbit brings it to the point closest to earth. Also known as a perigee moon, tonight’s [...]
Spitbank Fort: Welcome to the UK’s craziest hotel August 8, 2014 Spitbank Fort is a granite maritime castle marooned in the home waters of The Solent, one mile out of Portsmouth harbour but a comfortable breast stroke swim from the Isle of Wight. It was built by Prime Minister Palmerston in 1878 to discourage Napoleon III in his ambitions of sailing the French fleet up the [...]
RBS chairman Sir Philip Hampton mulls move to head GlaxoSmithKline August 8, 2014 Sir Philip Hampton could jump ship to leading pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline after six years chairing RBS, it was reported yesterday. Neither is in any rush to replace its chairman – Glaxo’s chair Sir Christopher Gent expects to serve at the firm until the end of next year. He has served at the company for a [...]
Cowes Week Diary: Action switches from sea to sky as regatta reaches a conclusion August 8, 2014 AS THE curtain comes down on another Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week this weekend, I was lucky enough to join the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation on board a racing yacht during the regatta’s Ladies Day yesterday. The weather was glorious. So glorious, in fact, that we didn’t manage to do much racing due to [...]
RideLondon-Surrey Classic: Bradley Wiggins hitting road in search of capital hat-trick August 8, 2014 Cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins is aiming to complete a hat-trick of victories on London tarmac this weekend after being named as a last-minute entrant to Sunday’s RideLondon-Surrey Classic. Tour de France winner Wiggins has triumphed in his last two races on the capital’s roads: the 2012 Olympic Games time trial and the Tour of Britain [...]
Dixons Carphone share price falls on first day of trading after £3.6bn merger August 8, 2014 Shares in Dixons Carphone rose yesterday morning only to close down 1.8 per cent in their first formal day of trading since Carphone Warehouse and Dixons Retail merged to create a £3.6bn consumer electronics empire. The FTSE 250 company aims to exploit the ever-growing presence of consumer electronics in people’s lives and the so-called [...]
Philip Hampton is being lined up to replace Sir Christopher Gent as GSK’s next chairman August 7, 2014 Sir Philip Hampton is being lined up to take the role of chairman at Britain’s biggest drug company Glaxosmithkline after exiting Royal Bank of Scotland, Sky News reports. It’s said that Hampton will join GSK as early as next month as a non-executive director or deputy chairman, moving into the chairman’s seat by 2015. GSK’s [...]