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Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group has filed a possible £83m offer to buy the luxury brand Mulberry as it expressed concerns about the future of the British handbag maker. Frasers – the owner of Sports Direct, Evans Cycles, the House of Fraser department stores, the luxury streetwear chain Flannels and multiple brands from Slazenger to Jack … Read more
(NEXSTAR) — While multiple cellphone and internet providers were working to restore services Monday after Hurricane Helene struck the Southeast, one company was struck by a “nationwide outage.” User reports for problems with Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile initially spiked on Downdetector, a site that tracks outages across platforms and services, at around 10 a.m. ET. … Read more
The Rupert Murdoch-backed real estate company REA Group has abandoned its attempt to take over the website Rightmove after its fourth offer was rebuffed on Monday. The Australian group majority-owned by Murdoch’s News Corp announced that it had decided not to make a formal bid, hours after Rightmove’s board rejected its £6.2bn proposal made on … Read more
What is the controversy about maternity pay? The Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch was asked on Sunday if she thought maternity pay was at the right level. Her reply was taken to mean she thought maternity pay was “excessive”. “Statutory maternity pay is a function of tax; tax comes from people who are working,” she … Read more
Rod Bransgrove, Hampshire’s chairman, has hailed a “landmark” £120m deal to sell the club to the co-owners of the Indian Premier League’s Delhi Capitals and has predicted other counties will follow suit. The deal makes GMR Group the first overseas owners of an English county cricket team. Bransgrove is confident they will not be the … Read more
Senior Conservatives are considering pushing for a lifting of the moratorium on fracking in England to become party policy. At the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, MPs are reflecting on the crushing blow they were dealt at this year’s general election and coming up with policies and ideas to rebuild the party so it can … Read more
Kemi Badenoch polished her brand as the say-the-unsayable candidate for Conservative leader thus: “Statutory maternity pay is a function of tax; tax comes from people who are working. We’re taking from one group of people and giving to another. This, in my view, is excessive.” She was talking to Times Radio, which maybe she considered … Read more
More than 100 passengers are due to finally leave Belfast on Monday on a three-year round-the-world “perpetual” cruise after being marooned unexpectedly in the city for four months. They were supposed to have set sail from the legendary Harland and Wolff dockyards in Belfast, best known as the home of the Titanic, on 30 May. … Read more
A select number of all-electric Tesla Cybertrucks now have the ability to drive on US highways hands-free, after the automaker pushed an update to vehicles this morning. Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy wrote on X that Cybertrucks will be the first Tesla vehicles to receive the “end-to-end on highway” driving feature, which the company says … Read more
Alun Davies looks across to the plumes of steam that rise from Port Talbot’s last blast furnace, soon to be extinguished. The mood in the rainswept south Wales steel town is “heartbreaking”, says Davies, the national officer for the steelworkers’ union Community and a former steelworker of nine years. “It’s smashed to pieces,” he says. … Read more
