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We’ll be taking you through the key dates you need to know about and how to prepare for them. Get your set-up right Know what you want. As with any planning, know what your goals are for these events. Of course you want…
Five years after Virgin Media and O2 merged to create a £31bn telecoms giant, VMO2 is battling falling revenues, ongoing customer losses and over £22bn of debt. Its response? An £800m annual cost-cutting programme…
Read this year's results statement and you wonder why the controlling Weston family took 20 years to get behind the idea. One paragraph can be about a yeast plant in India or the impact of high gas prices on…
The fate of the retail chain and its 12,000 staff remains uncertain after it filed a notice of intention to appoint administrators at the high court last Thursday. The board of Poundland has lined up the advisory company…
The company was able to speed up the process by snapping up a robot-assisted warehouse in Sheffield from Debenhams, the owner of Boohoo, PrettyLittle Thing and Karen Millen. Primark will take over the warehouse by the…
There are two races on Saturday’s card that take the eye for an ante-post bet, starting with the two-and-a-half-mile handicap chase (3.35pm). IMPERIAL SAINT has an affinity with the Mildmay course, with a record of three…
This meeting is often run in attritional conditions but with the dry weather we’ve had all summer, the ground may be unseasonably quick on Town Moor this weekend. My main bet on the card comes in the Listed Wentworth…
In a letter to the Treasury Committee, Nikhil Rathi vowed to engage with Treasury and Cabinet Office officials over how the details of the Chancellor’s windfall tax on banks ended up in the press, and whether “any…
Bankers who are employed at the two UK-headquartered giants flooded cash into US political figures as millions of Americans headed to the polls. Donors listing Barclays or one of its subsidiaries as an employer…
Kelloggs' said the shift reflected how the climate crisis had affected the quality and availability of some rice and grains used in its most popular cereals. A spokesperson for Kellogg's said: "We have updated the Rice…