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But thanks to its vast real-world estate, it's reaping the benefits of a shift in spending by advertisers. As the market has woken up to this potential, the shares have charged higher, rising more than 70% this year…
The edges of the pieces are thinned down so they are ready to be turned, glued and stitched together by hand. Billingham has been at the factory near Birmingham since the 1980s, when "there were three pages in the Yellow…
“Unprecedented” is a word that gets thrown around too easily, but make no mistake: the AI infrastructure boom that many investors are betting on would be unprecedented in scale – if it materialises. Total spending based…
We arrived on Wednesday morning, just a few hours after the UK government had granted consent for the production of gas from the Jackdaw field in the North Sea. But already attention was shifting to this wild and windy…
Bosses made the announcement to staff on Wednesday, saying it was part of efforts to simplify the bank's operations and "remove duplication" after absorbing thousands of staff in to the group's wider workforce. The cuts…
The Canadian branch of the Weston family, which once owned Selfridges, has bought the 177-year-old pharmacy and beauty chain for $8.9 billion. After 20 years of steering what Pessina called “an iconic brand and a British…
The number of land titles in Greater Manchester owned by United Arab Emirates-linked companies increased from 51 in 2016 to 168 in 2026, equivalent to a 39% rise in the total area owned in a decade, from 73 to 101…
It also helped change the face of modern Manchester . Mubarak's successor, the Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi, was a sworn enemy of the United Arab Emirates , whose rulers feared the advance of Morsi's Islamism.…
That is the cash buffer the government has to help meet its own fiscal rules and reduce borrowing. Economists think the buffer might have halved in the last six months from around £24bn to as low as £11bn, in part…
But in 2026 it now belongs, at least in part, to sport. That’s not to say Roman Abramovich is buying Vogue or the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund ponders whether to back Alexander McQueen or Vivienne Westwood on a…