Allan Leighton, said to be one of the best connected businessmen in Britain, is more than a little frustrated. He has spent a lifetime on some of Britain’s most powerful boards, from Asda, the Royal Mail and Sky to The Co-operative Group, which by their nature are forced to respond …
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Investors have always been drawn to small companies thanks to their potential to grow far more quickly than larger, more established rivals. But for every success story there are many that fail. Smaller company fund managers make a living out of finding diamonds in the rough. This has been the …
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The real deal: Samantha with a gold rose and a 1kg gold bar — worth £36,000 Thousands of tourists pass through Piccadilly Circus in Central London every day — most completely unaware that deep below the street lies millions of pounds’ worth of gold bullion. The shop above the high-security …
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Special five-kilogram silver coins produced by the Royal Canadian Mint show the famous schooner the Bluenose with the sky behind it tinted pink, blue and many shades in between. A new technique called ‘plasmonic colouring’ uses pulses of laser light to alter the surface of metals to give them bright …
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