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Follow Mail Sport’s live blog for the latest score, team news and updates as Middlesbrough host Chelsea in the first-leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final. Source link
By This Is Money Updated: 04:05 EST, 9 January 2024 Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are B&M, Hays, GSK, Games Workshop, Oxford Nanopore Technologies and Unite Group.> If you are using our app or a third-party site click here to read Business Live’Up to 100′ Papa Johns branches face closing down across the UKUp to 100 Papa Johns branches are facing closure across the country in the latest blow for the high street, it has been revealed.The chain, which operates 524 branches across the UK, told investors the ‘strategic’ restaurant closures of ‘low performing’ branches would…
Vladimir Putin unleashed hypersonic missiles in Russia’s latest deadly wave of airstrikes across Ukraine, regional officials said Monday.At least four civilians were reported killed and at least 30 injured in the strikes that hit near the front lines of fighting in the east as well as in central and western parts of the country, which has been under invasion by Russia since February 2022.Ukraine said it had destroyed 18 out of the 51 missiles of different types launched.Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces used precision sea-launched and air-launched long-range missiles, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, to strike what it called ‘facilities of Ukraine’s…
German football legend Franz Beckenbauer retreated from public life for eight years after the death of his son Stephan and the 2006 World Cup scandal that saw him investigated for fraud.Beckenbauer has died at the age of 78 after battling with Parkinson’s disease, dementia, as well as undergoing heart operations. However, it was the passing of his son and World Cup scandal that saw his health begin to deteriorate. Beckenbauer – who was arguably Germany’s biggest footballing hero having won the World Cup for his country as a player (1974) and a manager (1990) – found himself in hot water following his…
By Live Commentary Updated: 03:32 EST, 8 January 2024 The FTSE 100 is down 0.3 per cent in early trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Shell, YouGov, CMC Markets, Plus 500 and CMO Group. Read the Monday 8 January Business Live blog below.> If you are using our app or a third-party site click here to read Business LivePrivate buyers slam the brakes on electric cars as sales slumpElectric car sales to private buyers have gone into reverse, now making up only a quarter of purchases.Individuals bought 71,984 of the vehicles last year – 23…
By Daniel Davis For Mailonline Published: 10:04 EST, 7 January 2024 | Updated: 12:43 EST, 7 January 2024 Advertisement Follow Mail Sport’s live blog for the latest score, team news and updates as Arsenal host Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium in the third-round of the FA Cup. Arsenal 0-0 LiverpoolCHANCE! Superb defending from Joe Gomez!SECOND HALF!Right, then. We’re off again.Here we go againThe players are back out at the Emirates.Liverpool emerged first, with Arsenal following them a few moments later. They held a brief chat in the tunnel, led by Martin Odegaard. Busiest man in London!Alisson will certainly hope for a…
Theatre and music halls were all the rage in Victorian times. But few benefited from electric lighting. Instead, they would heat quicklime until it emitted a brilliant white light, known as limelight.Quicklime has more of a backstage role in modern times but, behind the scenes, the chemical also known as calcium oxide plays an essential part in almost every aspect of our daily lives. Made by heating limestone, quicklime is used as a purifier to create products as wide-ranging as glassware, crockery, kettles, ovens, milk and sugar. The compound is also deployed to create steel bridges, buildings and roads. It is…
A defence chief has backed calls to build a new memorial which honours the Royal Navy’s contribution to ending the slave trade.Admiral Lord Alan West has thrown his weight behind a campaign spearheaded by Penny Mordaunt to create the first memorial to the Royal Navy’s West Africa Squadron, which seized vessels bound for the Americas and freed huge numbers of men, women and children.The Leader of the House of Commons yesterday hit out at ‘anti-British, grievance-based’ attempts to rewrite history, and said the UK should not keep quiet about being the first nation to abolish the slave trade.Former First Sea Lord (the…
Follow Mail Sport’s live blog for the latest scores, team news and updates as Chelsea host Preston in the FA Cup third-round. Source link
By Leah Montebello Updated: 16:54 EST, 5 January 2024 Ithaca Energy’s boss has stepped down as it tries to bounce back from a disappointing year.The North Sea oil and gas giant said Alan Bruce will leave to ‘pursue new opportunities’ after two years in charge.Ithaca shares sunk over a fifth in the past year as the windfall tax continues to put pressure on North Sea producers.Yesterday they dropped 0.7 per cent, or 1p, to 142.2p.Bruce, 42, joined in 2021 and was given the top job a year later after his predecessor Bill Dunnett died. Struggle: Ithaca Energy said Alan Bruce will…