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Czech Sphinx fills basket with Sainsburys: Billionaire investor Daniel Kretinsky becomes fourth largest shareholder By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:53 BST, 17 September 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 17 September 2020 A billionaire investor known as the ‘Czech Sphinx’ has become the fourth-largest shareholder in Sainsbury’s. Daniel Kretinsky, who is already the … Read more
Dread and paranoia had settled over Prague like smog. Dissent was brutally crushed by the Communist regime, suspected traitors executed on the flimsiest of pretexts. But when MI6 officer Robert Gardner, having flown in from London, passed through the revolving doors of the famous Alcron hotel on February 20, 1951 – just as Winston Churchill, Charlie … Read more
Switzerland, Jamaica and the Czech Republic added to the UK quarantine list giving holidaymakers until 4am on Saturday to get home or face self isolating for 14-day – but Cuba is given the all clear By David Wilcock, Whitehall Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 17:09 BST, 27 August 2020 | Updated: 17:16 BST, 27 August 2020 … Read more
Billionaire known as the Czech Sphinx quietly becomes largest shareholder in Royal Mail By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 | Updated: 21:53 BST, 22 August 2020 The billionaire known as the Czech Sphinx has quietly become the largest shareholder in Royal Mail, heaping more pressure on the troubled … Read more
A skincare consultant to the stars, whose clientele includes Kim Kardashian and Anna Wintour, reveals the skin-ageing mistakes you could be making… Esthetician Joanna Czech has revealed the top ten mistakes that people make with their skincare routine, some of which you’re likely to be guilty of, and could be ageing your face. Joanna, who … Read more
Standing oo-oo-ovation! Baby gorilla claps and dances around in front of visitors at Czech zoo A clapping baby gorilla was photographed at Prague zoo in the Czech Republic earlier this month The adorable photos were taken by Lucie Stepnikova, 33, and show the gorilla dancing for joy and entertaining the public Stepnikova said she has … Read more
A businessman awarded a peerage by Harold Wilson had a decade-long relationship with Communist-era spies who considered him so useful that they referred to him as ‘intelligence agency staff’. According to more than 1,000 documents unearthed at archives in Prague, Rudy Sternberg was meeting agents from Czechoslovakia’s Statni Bezpecnost (StB) secret police in the 1960s … Read more
In a quiet street on the outskirts of Ostrava in Communist Czechoslovakia, a British secret agent carefully unearths a package containing highly classified documents. Working with practised ease, he replaces it with cash, which he puts in a food tin, along with instructions for his contact, and buries it in the pre-arranged spot. It is … Read more
Poland invades Czech Republic… by accident: Military admits soldiers occupied small part of neighbouring country after ‘misunderstanding’ over coronavirus restrictions Polish soldiers implementing Covid-19 restrictions crossed over Czech border The incident led the Czech embassy in Warsaw to notify its Polish counterpart The Polish Defence Ministry has described the incident as a ‘misunderstanding’ Here’s how … Read more
Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky raises stake in Royal Mail to £100m as postal service battles biggest crisis since privatisation By Jamie Nimmo, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 21:56 BST, 16 May 2020 | Updated: 21:56 BST, 16 May 2020 Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky has raised his stake in Royal Mail to above £100 million as … Read more