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20.08.2024 - 07:25
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Evening Standard
Wood Group reveals widened losses and costs of abandoned takeover
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Engineering firm John Wood Group has revealed it slumped to a near one billion US dollar (£770 million) half-year loss just weeks …
20.08.2024 - 07:24
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Evening Standard
Sir Keir Starmer: Key role for Wales in making Britain an energy superpower
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Sir Keir Starmer said his hopes of making Britain an “energy superpower” will include a key role for Wales, ahead of a …
20.08.2024 - 07:16
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Evening Standard
H&T bolstered by pawnbroking as more people seek quick loans
Our unmissable weekly email of all the gossip, rumours and covert goings-on inside the Square MileSign upI would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice.Pawnbrokers chain H&T has reported higher profits as it said more people were looking for alternative ways to source a small loan …
20.08.2024 - 06:00
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Sky News
Search continues for British tech tycoon and international bank boss after yacht sinks in Sicily tornado
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter are among six tourists missing after a luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of Italy.One person has been confirmed dead, believed to be the vessel’s Canadian chef, while four of the missing passengers are British and two American, according to Italian newspaper la …
20.08.2024 - 06:00
Business
Sky News
Search continues for British tech tycoon and bank boss after yacht sinks in Sicily tornado
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter are among six tourists missing after a luxury yacht sank in a tornado off the coast of Italy.One person is already known to have died following the yacht’s sinking off the coast of Palermo, Sicily, as the body of the vessel’s Canadian-Antiguan chef, Recaldo Thomas, has …
20.08.2024 - 05:32
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Sky News
Airport loses bid to overturn Saturday afternoon flights ban
London City Airport (LCA) has lost its bid to overturn a ban on Saturday afternoon flights – but has been granted permission to increase its annual number of passengers.Bosses at the site in Newham, east London, had wanted its current 12.30pm Saturday curfew to be pushed back to 6.30pm. However, the government has now ruled …
19.08.2024 - 19:36
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Sky News
Family of Mike Lynch’s co-defendant who died after car accident days before yacht sinking pay tribute
The family of Mike Lynch’s co-defendant in a recent US fraud trial have paid tribute to a “much-loved husband, father, son” after it was confirmed he died following a road accident that occurred a couple of days before the British tech tycoon went missing.Stephen Chamberlain, the former vice president of the finance company Autonomy, was …
19.08.2024 - 12:45
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Sky News
Brit missing from superyacht is rich list tech tycoon
British tech billionaire Mike Lynch is missing off Sicily’s coast after a yacht sank.One person is dead and six others are missing after a UK-flagged superyacht named Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily in a storm. Follow live: Superyacht sinks latestSky News also understands the yacht – which is believed to have been named …
19.08.2024 - 12:45
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Sky News
Rich-list tech tycoon among missing – who is Mike Lynch and why was he recently under house arrest?
British tech billionaire Mike Lynch is missing off Sicily’s coast after a yacht sank.One person is dead and six others are missing after a UK-flagged superyacht named Bayesian sank off the coast of Sicily in a storm. Follow live: Superyacht sinks latestLocal media reports that Mr Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter is among those missing – while …
19.08.2024 - 11:44
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Sky News
Ted Baker: Full list of stores set to close
All remaining Ted Baker shops in the UK and Republic of Ireland are due to shut down for good by the end of the day on Tuesday.Sky News revealed on Sunday that talks between retail tycoon Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group and Authentic, which owns Ted Baker’s intellectual property, had stalled three months after an agreement …
19.08.2024 - 10:34
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Sky News
Energy bills ‘to rise by £146’ in October
The average household energy bill is set to rise by £146 in October, experts say. Energy consultancy Cornwall Insight said typical bills would likely go up by 9% to £1,714 a year, up from £1,568 currently, when the latest price cap change takes effect. The figure is below its previous prediction in June, when it …
19.08.2024 - 10:19
Business
Business Live
The couple who quit London to set a herb farm in West Wales
When Toni and Alex Borella turned their backs on London to escape to rural Pembrokeshire they realised their dream of establishing a micro greens and herbs farming business. Since setting up Green Up Farm in 2021, supported by a Start Up Loans programme of the British Business Bank, their Llandysul-based venture has flourished. Ms Borella, …
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