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Blackstone tunes up £1.2bn bid for Blondie music owner Hipgnosis
The private equity titan Blackstone is this weekend drawing up plans for a £1.2bn takeover bid for the owner of songs performed by Blondie, the Kaiser Chiefs and the Red Hot Chili Peppers.Sky News can exclusively reveal that Blackstone has already tabled several offers to buy Hipgnosis Songs Fund (HSF), the London-listed music rights investment …
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Double delight as Birmingham sweeps the board at BCO Awards
A back-to-frame renovation project and a brand new office building in Birmingham city centre have both been crowned double winners at an annual property awards today. 10 Brindleyplace and One Centenary Way each won two awards at the British Council for Offices Midlands and Central Awards 2024, held at the ICC in Birmingham. The annual …
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Evening Standard
FTSE regains morning losses as global leaders call for calm in Middle East
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Electric battery firm AESC submits plans for third gigafactory in Sunderland
Electric battery firm AESC has submitted plans for a third electric battery gigafactory in Sunderland, as construction gains momentum on its second plant. The Japanese tech company – Nissan’s battery partner – started the year with a £200m loan from the UK Infrastructure Bank to support the current development of its new 15.8GWh gigafactory. It …
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What’s going to be different with the halving of Bitcoin this time?
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Grocery delivery app Getir prepares to exit UK market
Getir, the grocery delivery app once valued at nearly $12bn (£9.7bn), is close to pulling the plug on its operations in Britain in a move that would spark concerns for well over 1,000 jobs.Sky News has learnt that Getir is preparing to announce next week that it is withdrawing from the three remaining European markets …
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Shipping firms plead for UN help amid escalating Middle East conflict
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Post Office lawyer ‘takes no pride’ working for the company
A lawyer for the Post Office at the height of the Horizon IT scandal has told the public inquiry he feels “no pride” to be employed by the company.Rodric Williams, a civil law specialist who joined the organisation in 2012, told the hearing he was “truly sorry” for being associated with the “greatest miscarriage of …
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Britain’s PM announces plans to crackdown on ‘sick note culture’
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Middle East tensions and anti-sexting campaign
How have the markets reacted to Israel’s attack on Iran?Ian King is joined by Sophie Lund-Yates, lead equity analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown to assess the impact.He is also talking to the boss of Dutch telecoms firm KPN, which has launched a major campaign against the sending of unsolicited sexual images.Listen and subscribe to The Ian …
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Evening Standard
FTSE 100 Live 19 April: Shares down amid new Middle East fears, flat UK retail sales disappoint
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Sky News
HSBC-backed fintech Monese plots break-up amid mounting losses
An HSBC-backed technology company which was in talks to raise funding at a valuation of over £1bn four years ago is to break itself up amid mounting losses.Sky News has learnt that Monese, which has targeted customers who are underserved by mainstream banks, is working with advisers on plans to split itself into separate consumer-facing …

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