The Swansea ball boy famously kicked by a Chelsea player has moved his £150million vodka business into a gold-plated HQ. Charlie Morgan made headlines when Eden Hazard kicked him during a Chelsea vs Swansea City match in 2013. The 28-year-old has since built a spirit empire alongside school friend Jackson …
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A nationwide chain of cafés, bars and restaurants founded in Bristol on a shoestring £10,000 budget, is to be sold off to US investment firm for £366m. Loungers, which runs the Lounge, Cosy Club and Brightside brands, is to change hands in a deal with Fortress Investment Group which is …
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His day-to-day role was varied, depending on whether he was conducting maintenance as a weapons engineer or being in a more communications-focused role receiving incoming messaging and signals on a submarine. Adam was in the middle of a promotion course and when he was walking back to his room one …
Read More »Royal Mail is set to be allowed to deliver second-class letters on alternate weekdays and to stop Saturday deliveries under proposals to shake up postal service rules announced by the industry regulator. Ofcom said cutting the deliveries to every other weekday with a price cap on second-class stamps, while maintaining …
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Prince Joachim and Princess Marie of Denmark are set to attend Prince Harry’s Invictus Games in Canada next month. The event, which will be held in Vancouver and Whistler from 8 to 16 February, will be the first to incorporate winter sports, and will be broadcast on ITV in the …
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Former Take That member Jason Orange has made a surprising career move, a decade after leaving the band and stepping out of the public eye. The 54 year old singer, who rose to fame as part of the iconic boyband’s original line-up in 1990 alongside Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Robbie …
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Making speeches is the easy bit. Back in the real world, decisions come along to test the government’s “growth” agenda. Take the latest from the North Sea: a legal ruling bound to rattle investors, embolden environmental campaigners — not least over Heathrow’s third runway — and highlight another bit of …
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Postal workers: take up the fight for rank-and-file control! Join the Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee by filling out the form below. USPS Truck [Photo by Flickr, Lisa Brewster / CC BY-SA 4.0] The tentative agreement between the US Postal Service (USPS) and the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) appears …
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CGI of true student’s Nottingham student accommodation development. Last week, true student celebrated a construction milestone, topping out at its Nottingham purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) development, marking a significant milestone in its journey to completion. The scheme has breathed new life into the historic former Royal Mail sorting office building, …
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US battery recycling technology firms Redivivus and Re-New-Able Technologies have partnered to establish a scalable lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Illinois. Re-New-Able is leading the project, using Redivivus’s Redi-Shred recycling technology. The facility will process batteries of any state of charge or health from local businesses and OEM factories. It …
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