Average of 35p in pound goes on interest and shareholder payouts Worst offender among the ten water and sewerage suppliers is Wessex Water News comes after Ofwat’s decision to hit customers with bill increases By PATRICK TOOHER Updated: 22:06 GMT, 21 December 2024 More than a third of water bills is spent servicing debt and…
By JON HOPKINS Updated: 08:20 GMT, 21 December 2024 London’s junior Aim market received a Christmas gift to round off a tough year yesterday with the float of Amcomri. The group focuses on the acquisition and enhancement of specialist engineers and its listing comes after Aim shrank to its smallest size by number of companies…
It was one of Novo Nordisk’s worst days on stock market Shares fell by up to 29% before pharma giant clawed back some of its losses By EMILY HAWKINS Updated: 08:17 GMT, 21 December 2024 Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk saw its value fall by as much as £82billion yesterday after a weight loss drug trial…
By GEOFF HO Updated: 21:50 GMT, 20 December 2024 Credit Suisse collapsed due to ‘years of mismanagement’, according to a damning report from Swiss MPs. The global banking giant, which employed more than 50,000 staff worldwide and more than 5,500 in the UK before its failure in March 2023, was brought down by a bank…
Frasers wanted to appointed Ashley and Mike Lennon to the Boohoo board Boohoo shares have plunged by approximately 90% over the last five years By HARRY WISE Updated: 19:16 GMT, 20 December 2024 Frasers Group’s attempts to put Mike Ashley on the board of struggling online retailer Boohoo have resoundingly failed. Boohoo shareholders rejected two…
By MIRIAM KUEPPER Published: 12:49 GMT, 20 December 2024 | Updated: 18:55 GMT, 20 December 2024 This is the shocking moment a Boeing 737 passenger jet overshot the runway and stopped just 15 yards from the sea. Footage shows flight DY430 approaching the runway in Molde on the northern shore of the Romsdal Peninsula in…
WARNING: Graphic Content By SABRINA PENTY Published: 16:15 GMT, 20 December 2024 | Updated: 17:33 GMT, 20 December 2024 A Belgian couple who used their four daughters as sex slaves to fulfill their sexual fantasies have been sentenced to more than a decade in prison. The mother and father – who are unnamed for legal…
A British teenager who has been jailed in Dubai over a holiday romance was cleared of rape – but still faces a year in a hellhole prison because his accuser was two weeks shy of her 18th birthday. Marcus Fakana says he enjoyed a holiday romance with the 17-year-old girl at the Hilton Dubai Palm…
By JESSICA CLARK Updated: 22:07 GMT, 19 December 2024 Corporate Britain faces ‘a swarm of takeovers’ next year with a third of AIM companies vulnerable to bids, according to City experts. In a stark warning, investment bank Peel Hunt forecast a ‘major and sustained’ wave of offers for London-listed firms in the new year. And it…
Serco said it had seen a ‘much improved’ order intake during the second half Its sales have been aided by defence, justice and citizen services contracts By HARRY WISE Updated: 13:57 GMT, 19 December 2024 Outsourcing giant Serco expects its pipeline of new business opportunities to close 2024 at its strongest level for more than a…
