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Election nights are the kind of occasion when political aficionados plonk themselves in front of the TV and go online to Just Eat for some take-out food. The big question at present is who is going to take out the £5billion British food ordering and delivery platform. At the time of the proposed merger with … Read more

Games Workshop shares leap as the Dwarfs, Orcs and Elves retailer says its profits are set to surge Retailer expects sales for the six months to December to be at least £140m Nottingham-headquartered firm said profits for the period will be at least £55m Shares climbed 17 per cent to 5267p following the update on Friday   … Read more

Bovis Homes set to take on housebuilding giants Barratt and Persimmon as it inks billion pound deal for Galliford Try’s housing business Bovis has splashed out over £1bn for Galliford Try’s residential homes business Idea first floated in September as housebuilders face increasing pressure Rival Persimmon announced results today, with its  sales falling by 6 per … Read more

Leaked: Some of the City’s best known grandees set to attend controversial Davos in the desert Conference was boycotted last year following the murder of Jamal Khashoggi Bosses from HSBC, Standard Chartered and the LSE are expected to attend Sir Martin Sorrell and Aberdeen Asset Management founder Martin Gilbert also  By William Turvill For The … Read more

Stop passing the buck! Furious MPs accuse former Thomas Cook bosses of ‘blaming everyone but themselves’ for collapse By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 23 October 2019 | Updated: 10:28 BST, 25 October 2019 Arrogant former Thomas Cook bosses were lambasted by MPs for blaming ‘everyone but themselves’ for the 178-year-old … Read more

A British company which has assembled a heavyweight board and is planning to grow marijuana in England is plotting a £100 million float that would make it the largest cannabis business on the London Stock Exchange. Cannaray will become the only London-listed UK grower of cannabis next summer if it secures its licence to cultivate … Read more

FTSE CLOSE: UK manufacturing slides to seven-year low; Channel tunnel firm ‘ready for a no-deal Brexit’; US-China trade war escalates Channel tunnel operator GetLink insists it is ‘ready for a no-deal Brexit’ There was a marked escalation in the US-China trade war overnight The latest UK manufacturing figures show activity slid to a 7-year low … Read more

BP quits Alaska after 60 years in £4.5bn deal as it moves away from oil and gas drilling BP is disposing of its interests in several oil fields and the Trans-Alaska pipeline to local firm Hilcorp The deal marks a major change for BP, which began working in Alaska in 1959 It also throws the jobs … Read more

Fat cat bosses at some of Britain’s biggest companies are raking in hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of perks on top of their multi-million pay packages, a Mail on Sunday investigation has found. FTSE 100 chiefs are enjoying what critics call ‘completely gratuitous’ payments to cover private aircraft use, school fees, family travel, chauffeur-driven cars … Read more