Capital & Counties spends £436m on shares in larger rival Shaftesbury – paving way for mega-merger of West End property giants By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:59 BST, 30 May 2020 | Updated: 21:59 BST, 30 May 2020 The owner of a huge estate in London’s Covent Garden has spent £436million on … Read more
It’s a family affair! Boohoo buys Pretty Little Things fashion label from founder’s playboy son in £300m deal By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 28 May 2020 | Updated: 22:13 BST, 28 May 2020 The playboy son of Boohoo’s chairman is in line for a £300million windfall after the online retail … Read more
Mother buys a £100 second-hand vending machine and makes her four children use pocket money earned through chores to pay for their snacks in a bid to cut down on junk food Sarah Balsdon, 29, from Northumberland, paid £100 for an old vending machine Mother-of-four makes her children use their pocket money for their snacks … Read more
Thunderbirds are go… in Ilford! Businessman buys car disguised as the iconic TV show’s heavy equipment transporter and drives it through the streets Couple who run limo company buy Thunderbirds 2 to hire out for weddings Carl and Elaine Westwood had to call a halt to limo business during pandemic It has a suitably loud … Read more
A mystery good Samaritan who paid for 171 villagers to enjoy fish and chips every Friday over three months of lockdown, has now launched a very different initiative to help them lose weight. The anonymous benefactor has been footing the bill for every villager in Denchworth, Oxfordshire, to enjoy fish and chips – normally £5 per head … Read more
Dim and tonic! Man, 28, buys his partner an engraved gin glass as 30th birthday gift… but it’s etched with his DELIVERY REQUEST as he filled in the wrong box for his romantic message Daniel Varey, 28, ordered a gin glass for his girlfriend Hayley Woodward’s 30th However when glass arrived he realised there had been … Read more
Lais Ribeiro buys festive balloons during grocery run with fiance Joakim Noah as she celebrates her son Alexandre’s 12th birthday By Deirdre Simonds For Dailymail.com Published: 04:28 BST, 17 May 2020 | Updated: 04:28 BST, 17 May 2020 Victoria’s Secret model Lais Ribeiro looked cheerful, as she shopped for balloons and a bouquet of flowers … Read more
Defence giant BAE Systems buys Collins Aerospace GPS unit from America’s United Technologies for £1.7bn BAE shares rose 2.9 per cent, up 17.8p to 642.4p in trading on Monday Move comes just six months after United Technologies and Raytheon merged The GPS business has designed military receivers for more than 40 years By Sara Scarlett … Read more
The company’s journey to the summit of the technology industry has been a rocky one, having seen Jobs (pictured right in 1976) leave the firm in the mid-1980s after his pet project, the first Macintosh computer, struggled and he attempted to oust then chief executive John Sculley. Wozniak is pictured left 1976: Founders Steve Jobs, … Read more
Vanessa Kirby looks stylish in a black jacket and floral-print trousers as she buys fruit at a petrol station… after Mission: Impossible 7 stopped filming amid coronavirus By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 16:48 BST, 15 May 2020 | Updated: 17:15 BST, 15 May 2020 She was forced to head back to London after Mission: Impossible … Read more