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The goal of Global Britain requires the country to preserve openness to foreign investment and its status as a thriving offshore financial centre. But achieving international ambitions if it continues to be the top destination for overseas and financially driven takeovers, as it has been for two decades, would be impossible. Too much of what … Read more
US vultures swoop on British builder: Retirement homes firm McCarthy & Stone backs £630m bid sparking fears for its elderly residents By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 22:01 BST, 23 October 2020 | Updated: 22:27 BST, 23 October 2020 Britain’s biggest builder of retirement homes could fall into the hands of an overseas … Read more
American private equity barons circling Britain’s largest office developers after their share prices collapse by 50% By Ben Harrington, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:48 BST, 29 August 2020 | Updated: 21:48 BST, 29 August 2020 American private equity barons are circling Britain’s largest office developers after their share prices collapsed by almost 50 per … Read more
Feeling cheated? Flock of vultures swoop in to steal cheetah’s kill before lion snatches it from them The cheetah was tucking into an impala in Kruger National Park, South Africa Vultures surrounded it and began inching closer as the cheetah tucked in They overpower it and feast on the kill until a lion appears and … Read more
Eerie photos show a flock of vultures circling over an empty Manhattan during lockdown as the NYC’s coronavirus death toll soars above 7,000 The birds of prey were spotted circling over Downtown Manhattan Friday The photographs were made all the more ominous by the fact the city’s skyscrapers and office buildings lay abandoned amid the … Read more
TV presenter Grant Denyer has been left outraged by panic-buying Sydneysiders travelling to regional cities ‘by the busload’ to stock up on food and supplies. The Dancing with the Stars host, 42, claims to have witnessed a gang of coronavirus preppers ‘raiding’ supermarkets in his hometown of Bathurst, 200km west of Sydney. The same group of … Read more