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FTSE CLOSE: UK manufacturing slides to seven-year low; Channel tunnel firm ‘ready for a no-deal Brexit’; US-China trade war escalates Channel tunnel operator GetLink insists it is ‘ready for a no-deal Brexit’ There was a marked escalation in the US-China trade war overnight The latest UK manufacturing figures show activity slid to a 7-year low … Read more
French bakery chain Paul has started stockpiling food from France ahead of potential no deal Brexit By Sarah Bridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 09:21 BST, 25 August 2019 | Updated: 09:21 BST, 25 August 2019 French bakery chain Paul has started stockpiling food from France in case Britain exits the European Union without … Read more
WHAT BOOK would television comedian and journalist Dom Joly, take to a desert island? Dom Joly has recently finished reading Middle England by Jonathan Coe He would take Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad to a desert island He says the adventures of Tintin sparked his interest in reading By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 22:01 BST, 30 … Read more
Airline stocks were soaring after Brexit was pushed back to the end of October. The new deadline, which prevents Britain from leaving the EU with No Deal today, helped brush away fears that Brexit uncertainty might deter the UK’s holidaymakers from booking their summer escape to the Costa del Sol. Travel agent Tui jumped by … Read more
FTSE CLOSE: Pound edges up as May lines up Brexit meetings with Merkel and Macron; Boardroom battle at Barclays; Ashley lashes out at Debenhams bosses By This Is Money Published: 08:24 BST, 8 April 2019 | Updated: 17:07 BST, 8 April 2019 The FTSE 100 closed up 5.02 points at 7451.89 and the pound was … Read more
Where I live and write in Bath, heavy traffic shakes my building. Family, work deadlines, my bank account and, yes, Brexit all conspire to make me feel hemmed in. ‘The essential test of freedom asks how far in any direction we can move from where we now sit without deviating or meeting obstacles,’ wrote the … Read more