By City & Finance Reporter Updated: 16:50 EDT, 19 May 2024 Holding firm: Mondelez boss Dirk Van de Put Cadbury owner Mondelez will face scrutiny over selling chocolate in Russia at its AGM this week. Senior MPs and campaign groups have lambasted it for selling a number of its brands including …

Small businesses and charities have raised concerns about a Czech billionaire’s attempted takeover of Royal Mail, as the government prepares to assess the national security implications. Daniel Kretinsky’s EP Group increased its proposal to 370p per share on May 15, from an initial 320p-a-share approach to International Distributions Services (IDS), …

The HGV lorry jack-knifed near Gatwick Airport and blocked the road, with one lane of the road closed by police while the incident was dealt with. Access to the A23 was closed from the Longbridge roundabout near the airport for several hours while the lorry was recovered. MOST READ: ​To have access …

A highly contagious variant of Covid, named FLiRT, is seeing a rapid spread across the UK, as cases continue to climb. The feared new strain has taken dominance following a surge in positive tests for the deadly virus. In the final fortnight of April in the US, this particular variant, …

Second-class post will be cut to just three days a week if billionaire Daniel Kretinsky completes his £3.5billion takeover of Royal Mail, according to reports. The businessman, who has been nicknamed the ‘Czech Sphinx’ for his inscrutable nature, is planning on taking the UK’s 500-year-old postal service into full foreign ownership …

What does Daniel Kretinsky’s potential takeover of Royal Mail mean for West Ham? Considering how vocal David Sullivan, Karen Brady and the sadly deceased David Gold have been throughout their tenure as West Ham owners, it’s a strange feeling having someone as quiet as Daniel Kretinsky as a shareholder. In …

It was a packed day of royal engagements that kept the King from meeting Prince Harry during his whistle-stop visit to the UK. Now I can reveal that one of the items of business which kept the monarch from seeing his son was rewarding the senior peer who masterminded both …

A Royal Navy battleship which hunts enemy Russian submarines was spotted on a secret operation in one of Scotland’s biggest lochs. HMS Richmond, stationed 40 miles inland on Loch Fyne in Argyll and Bute for three days last week, uses underwater listening devices to detect enemy subs. Sightings of the …

10 years ago OPENCAST BATTLE: Villagers who had lived under the shadow of having a huge opencast site on their doorstep celebrated after UK Coal announced it had pulled out of controversial plans for 208 hectares of land at Hoodsclose, on the edge of Whittonstall. The application received 550 letters …

There are police cordons in Pinner this morning after an incident that is believed to have happened overnight. Two Royal Mail vans have been the focus of a police investigation today. The first van, which was severely damaged by fire, was found parked outside the Lidl supermarket on Bridge Street. …