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Hargreaves Lansdown shares slide after co-founder Peter Hargreaves offloads another £300m of his stake in the firm The share sale takes Hargreaves’s total ownership in the firm to less than 20% Co-founder Stephen Lansdown has also downsized his stake in Hargreaves Twelve months ago, Peter Hargreaves sold shares worth about £550m By Harry Wise For … Read more
The EU today announced it had bought another 300million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and approved a plan to scrape an extra dose out of each vial as the bloc tries to catch up to the faster rollouts in the US and Britain. With Israel still leading the global race – having given jabs to … Read more
India has completed a full dry run of its Covid-19 vaccination programme as it gears up to give the jabs to 300million people. Experts at the country’s drugs regulator have recommended for emergency use two coronavirus vaccines, one developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University and the other backed by a state-run institute, the government said … Read more
James Cracknell was stuck on the roadside after running out of fuel just 300 metres from a petrol station on Monday. The double gold medallist, 48, was seen by the side of the road in south London before topping up his Mercedes sports car with fuel from a plastic canister. As James busied himself with refuelling his … Read more
Advertising agency WPP has admitted to understating its losses by hundreds of millions of pounds after an embarrassing accounting debacle. In a highly unusual error, it said its statutory losses were mis-stated by £301million for the first six months of this year. It means the record half-year loss of £2.6billion that the world’s largest advertising … Read more
Hopes for future: Ben Ryan with baby Jacob before his diagnosis At 26 Ben Ryan was happy, healthy and successful. He had just been promoted at his work as an engineer and, in February 2015, he and his partner had their first baby together. But his life changed for ever when he was diagnosed with … Read more
JD Sports holds exclusive talks with Debenhams over ‘£300m’ takeover of ailing department store – after rival Sports Direct was rejected last month Debenhams, which has 124 stores, went into administration again back in April JD Sports keen to snap up the stores and revitalise the Debenhams website News will infuriate Mike Ashley, who has … Read more
Branson’s £300m Virgin blank cheque: British tycoon reveals plans to expand his empire buying new businesses By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:54 BST, 17 September 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 17 September 2020 Sir Richard Branson has proposed a so-called special purpose acquisition vehicle – or ‘spac’ Sir Richard Branson has revealed … Read more
Architect Norman Foster unveils £300m transparent pop-up Parliament which could be used for MPs when House of Commons is closed for repairs Norman Foster unveiled plans for pop-up Parliament on Horse Guards parade Building could be the potential new home for MPs as the House of Commons It would be designed to be taken down … Read more
Britain’s coronavirus borrowing binge hits £300m: Budget deficit at record levels as cost of pandemic mounts By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:51 BST, 14 May 2020 | Updated: 21:51 BST, 14 May 2020 The spiralling cost of subsidising the wages of millions of workers could push Britain’s budget deficit well above £300billion, … Read more