Author: Laura Robinson
MARKET REPORT: Future is bright for shares in UK publisherBy Hugo Duncan Updated: 06:47 EDT, 30 September 2023 The latest trading update from magazine publisher Future proved compelling reading for investors as shares in the group soared.The company, whose 250 titles include everything from Marie Claire, Homes and Gardens and Country Life to Four Four Two, Golf Monthly and Yachting World, said it was on course to hit its profit target for the year.Analysts have pencilled in £254million of profit for the financial year ending today. Compelling reading: Future said it was on course to hit its profit target for the…
For the decade he spent on the judging panel of Britain’s Got Talent — one of ITV’s most successful Saturday night shows — David Walliams played a variation of the same joke.In this joke, he was a gay man, desperately in love with head judge Simon Cowell — or ‘My Simon’ as he would call him.It was a piece of high-camp theatrics which Walliams seemed to enjoy. Sometimes he would sneak up behind Cowell when they arrived at auditions and sneak a kiss on the cheek. Other times, he would try to lie on Cowell on the judge’s desk.Cowell would…
BUSINESS LIVE: GDP grows 0.2%; Yew Tree ups Aston Martin stake; Severn Trent eyes £1bn fundraiseBy Live Commentary Updated: 11:51 EDT, 29 September 2023 Gross domestic product grew by 0.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2023, in line with expectations, fresh data from the Office for National Statistics shows. The figures confirm that the British economy is now bigger than before the pandemic. The FTSE 100 is up 0.9 per cent in afternoon trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Aston Martin, Severn Trent, Home REIT, Rathbones and Future. Read the Friday 29 September Business…
By Ed Carruthers For Mailonline Published: 00:44 EDT, 29 September 2023 | Updated: 07:05 EDT, 29 September 2023 Follow Mail Sport’s live blog as Ryder Cup 2023 gets underway on day one at the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club in Rome. Share or comment on this article: Ryder Cup 2023 LIVE: Tyrrell Hatton rolls in a birdie on the first hole as dominant Europe lead the afternoon’s first fourball match… with Luke Donald’s side already 4-0 up after a morning clean sweep Source link
Holding hands, the beaming couple were unable to hold back their smiles on what should have been the happiest day of their lives. But unbeknown to newlyweds Haneen and Revan, this was to be their final picture together before a raging inferno swept through their Christian wedding in Iraq today.The young couple are feared to have been killed along with at least 110 of their wedding guests after the blaze, believed to have been started by fireworks, tore through the large hall in the northern town of Qaraqosh near Mosul.Those who survived the inferno have described it as ‘hell’ with children as young…
Nobody will be keener to see the success of the BBC’s reboot of Gladiators than TV executive Dan Baldwin — also known as Mr Holly Willoughby.Not only is he making the show for the Beeb via his company Hungry Bear, he has also pulled a shrewd move by setting up a talent agency to represent all the new stars he hopes it will create.This ‘brand-new generation of superhumans’ (that’s according to the Beeb) have been signed up to the HB agency, which was quietly set up by Baldwin in June, just before the show was filmed.So far, Steel, Viper, Sabre,…
BUSINESS LIVE: 888 profits slump; Inland Homes in administration; Deliveroo £250m buyback By Live Commentary Updated: 11:30 EDT, 28 September 2023 The FTSE 100 is down 0.3 per cent in afternoon trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are 888 Holdings, Deliveroo, Inland Homes, Phoenix Group and Mitchells & Butlers. Read the Thursday 28 September Business Live blog below.> If you are using our app or a third-party site click here to read Business LiveThe Footsie closes soonJust before close, the FTSE 100 was up 0.07% at 7,598.50.Meanwhile, the FTSE 250 was 0.71% lower at 18,091.16.Trading in Evergrande…
A Sri Lankan cricketer who has been stuck in Australia for almost a year as he fought a ‘stealthing’ charge in court will be free to return home after he was found not guilty of sexual assault without consent.Danushka Gunathilaka learned his fate on Thursday following a judge alone trial at the Downing Centre District Court after pleading not guilty to the single charge.Judge Sarah Huggett heard four days of evidence, including from the alleged victim who said the cricketer was ‘forceful’ and ‘aggressive’. The 32-year-old batsman met up with the woman at Sydney’s Opera Bar on November 2 last…
A suspect who is at the centre of a murder investigation after a man was allegedly stabbed to death in Portugal is a British drainage engineer, MailOnline can reveal.Josh James Menkens is alleged to have been one of the organisers of a mini-festival known as the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party last weekend near a remote commune known as Libelinha Venture in central Portugal.The festival, which was hosted at an off-grid property, descended into chaos after the body of a 35-year-old British man was found in the early hours of Sunday morning.The victim is alleged to have been stabbed to death after…
Putin bombs Odessa in shameless bid to cause famine: Terrifying moment Ukrainian port is rocked by massive explosion in drone barrage as Russia’s barbaric invasion rumbles onBy Jack Wright Published: 19:34 EDT, 26 September 2023 | Updated: 11:09 EDT, 27 September 2023 Russia struck the Black Sea region of Odesa in a drone barrage that damaged a warehouse, charred dozens of trucks and injured two drivers in fiery explosions that led to the suspension of the ferry service between Romania and Ukraine, officials said Tuesday.Video shot from the Romanian side of the Danube River showed rapid bursts of Ukrainian anti-aircraft…