According to Billionaire Weston family and 49-year-old Alannah Weston, chairman of Selfridges Group, a sale deal managed by Credit Suisse, would include Selfridge’s landmark London Store, one of the world’s most famous department stores for £4bn. The Weston Family whose net worth of £11bn, whose portfolio includes Primark, Twinnings, Jordans and Ryvita, acquired…
Sajid Thungal is now 70, thought dead in a plane crash stuns his family by turning up alive after 45 years. He allowed his family to believe he had been killed in the plane crash in India in 1976. Thungal left his hometown of Shasthamkotta in India in October 1976 to support his family by…
Aon and Wills Towers Watson have departed from a $30bmn tie-up that would have created the world’s biggest insurance broker after the US government sued to block the deal. Greg Case, Aon’s CEO said: “the companies have reached an impasse with the US Department of Justice, which had overlooked the fact that our complementary businesses…
The Slate landscape of north west Wales which roofed the 19th century world as its quarries exported slate across the globe, has become the UK’s newest Unesco world heritage site. The landscape surrounding Snowdonia in the county of Gwynedd was awarded the prestigious global status already enjoyed by sites like Great Wall of China, Machu…
Dreams come true for Tom Daley who said m in 2005 “I want to get to the Olympics and win a gold medal” and 16 years later he realised his dream with Maty Lee secured a historic synchronised 10m platform Olympic title at Tokyo 2020. Daley now aged 27, is Britain’s most decorated diver,…
Philippine Eagle is a new discovery and has a capacity to see 8-times the distance that the human eye can see.
Sat 24 Jul 2021 British and Irish Lions in Cape Town South Africa. 17 22 British & Irish Lions De Klerk. Tries Cowan-Dickie Conversions Biggar Pollard (4) Penalties. Biggar (4), Farrell Lions beat world champions South Africa British and Irish Lions beat South Africa 22-17 Earlier Faf de Klerk try puts South Africa in…
US owned Cobham is near to clinching £2.6bn to acquire Ultra Electronics as take over of one of the Britain’s defence firms. The UK government is closely monitoring the proposed £2.6bn takeover of Ultra Electronics by a private equity-owned defence industry rival. Ultra said that its board was mined to recommend a £35-a-share offer…
Novelist, and former American academic, living in UK, Rick Gekoski in search of rare book trade for the last fifty years as a bookseller seeking scarce, world of first editions, revealing anecdotes and a hint of steel. By chance in 1971, he stumbled across a tranche of DH Lawrence first editions in Brooklyn on a…
Cal Newport debunks the jargon “follow your passion” by revealing have little to do with how most people end up loving their work after spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and other who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work. Newport takes the lid off strategies they used…