Below the stalwarts of the FTSE 100 – the index of Britain’s biggest companies by market capitalisation – lies the lesser known FTSE250 Index. It contains mid-cap stocks that are a tier down from the big league. In footballing terms, these are the Championship firms compared with the Premier League …
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Growing unionisation among Starbucks employees attacked by billionaire: “it’s an American right of workers not to unionize and to [instead] embrace the values and the culture of his or her company“ A remarkable video obtained by the US workers’ media organisation A More Perfect Union shows Starbucks founder Howard Schultz …
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A Gloucestershire soldier along with three other brothers-in-arms have made regimental history. They are believed to be the first fully formed crew from the British Army’s Armoured Reserve Regiment, to serve on Operations since the Second World War. Lance Corporal George Dwight, 27, from Cirencester and his Challenger 2 Main …
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A slavery reparations campaigner has branded the Earl and Countess of Wessex’s “British oligarchs” and said he was “disappointed” their visit to Grenada was cancelled. Edward and Sophie postponed their trip to Grenada – meant to be part of a seven-day tour of the Caribbean to mark the Queen’s 70-year …
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A Russian oligarch’s charity, which donated to a private hospital used and supported by the Queen and the royal family, has been made the subject of an inquiry following sanctions. Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor had his assets frozen in early April as part of sanctions imposed by the UK Government over …
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Prince Harry ‘vented’ about William and ‘poured out resentments’ about his father Charles to his actress ex-girlfriend Cressida Bonas so much that she recommended he see a therapist, leading the duke to seek advice on the best shrinks from MI6, a bombshell new book claims. Tina Brown, the author of The …
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Tina Brown’s new book, The Palace Papers, makes claims about the Queen, Meghan Markle, Kate Middleton, Prince Charles and the rest of the royal family – and it won’t be pleasant reading for members of The Firm Video Loading Video Unavailable The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Prince Harry …
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The scene was a memorial service at the Guards’ Chapel, across the road from Buckingham Palace and one of the smartest places for a send-off London has to offer. But according to Tina Brown, who was there to pay her respects to the debonair Lord Lichfield, fashionable photographer to the …
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A POSTBOX in honour of a local Olympian has been replaced after it was damaged last week. The new gold postbox in front of The Tontine Hotel, which was first installed in honour of Olympic showjumper Scott Brash, was replaced today [April 22] after the original was knocked during a …
Read More »For many, the ferry ride between Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly marks the beginning of a relaxing weekend away. For residents of the islands wanting to visit their nearest bank, it’s about to become an expensive necessity. Lloyds, which ran the Isles’ last remaining branch, is about to close …
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