Wall Street firm to walk off with Dr Martens for £300million

Wall Street firm to walk off with Dr Martens for £300million By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 Iconic boots maker Dr Martens is poised to fall into the clutches of one of Wall Street’s most powerful private equity firms for more … Read more

Wall Street King Dimon ‘recovering well’ after emergency heart op 

Wall Street King Jamie Dimon is ‘recovering well’ after emergency heart surgery By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2020 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 6 March 2020 The ‘King of Wall Street’ Jamie Dimon is recovering well after emergency heart surgery, JP Morgan said. Dimon, who has led the US … Read more

Grandparents travel from Britain to the Great Wall of China – on their BIKES 

An inspirational couple in their 60s has travelled 12,000 miles across 16 countries from Britain to the Great Wall of China – riding their bikes the entire way. Grandparents Peter and Chris Lloyd embarked on the epic 18-month journey after deciding to ‘do something a bit different’ in retirement. The ultra-fit OAPs traversed cities, deserts, … Read more

Fears manufacturing recovery will hit the wall if coronavirus worsens 

Fears manufacturing’s Boris bounce will hit the wall if coronavirus outbreak worsens By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 GMT, 2 March 2020 | Updated: 22:04 GMT, 2 March 2020 The post-election recovery in British manufacturing could run out of steam because of the coronavirus. Research group IHS Markit said its index of … Read more

When two zoos went to war: Separated by the Berlin Wall, the men were bitter rivals

HISTORY  THE ZOOKEEPERS’ WAR  by J.W. Mohnhaupt (S&S £18.99, 272 pp) Here’s a tale from the Cold War that’s little-known but deserves not to be. After World War II, as you know, Berlin was split into two. West Berlin was under the control of the Allies, while East Berlin was under the Soviet yoke, and an … Read more

Tribal leader: Work to build border wall hurts sacred land

Native American leader fights back tears as he describes the pain of watching sacred land being blown up to make way for Donald Trump’s Mexico-US border wall Native American leader spoke of pain at sacred land being destroyed for the wall Construction crews this month began blasting and bulldozing through hills  Environmental groups are also … Read more