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...Their holding company, B.UK, is under pressure from Lloyds Bank to settle decade-long borrowings....
...The twins acquired the Daily Telegraph for about £665mn after fighting off competition from Daily Mail owner DMGT, German publisher Axel Springer and private equity groups led by former Mirror chief executive...
...News site Axios last year raised fresh cash valuing it at $430m, while German publisher Axel Springer paid about $1bn to buy Politico, the US political news site....
...The most recognisable names — Sarah Jessica Parker, Floyd Mayweather, Jerry Springer, Dick Van Dyke, Snoop Dogg, John Cleese, Lindsay Lohan, David Hasselhoff — are no longer at the height of their careers...
...A reminder that last year KKR bought 45 per cent of Axel Springer, which tried to merge with Pro7 (or PSM if you prefer) in 2005 and 2015....
...“A, B, C: Always Be Closing”. That was the advice Alec Baldwin’s sales guru gave budding estate agents in the movie Glengarry Glen Ross....
...I think that B assets are getting priced like A assets and A assets are getting priced like A+ assets,” he says....
...Purple Rain, Prince’s funk R&B hit of the 1980s, is all about finding a way through the deluge and embracing change....
...direction in which China is heading (“Springer halts internet access in China to 1,000 articles”, November 2)....
...anti-slavery passover story by Robert Shrimsley Customers should have come first in the GKN battle by Michael Skapinker What you’ve been saying Frequency has been part of airlines’ strategy — letter from John B...
...Given Canada is a bit of a pop-music hit factory at the moment — The Weeknd, Justin B., Drake — what about helping the Germans deliver some global hits?...
...Media groups Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and Axel Springer were also approached about the stake, two people close to the situation said....
...The birdwatching couple we met on Marettimo told us they’d seen a group of 30 bee-eaters outside the window of the B&B here....
...Kingfisher, the parent company of B&Q, was also supported by a Deutsche Bank “buy” recommendation....
...In DW Griffith’s Intolerance (1916), Fred Niblo’s Ben-Hur (1925) and Cecil B....
...Informa firmed up 1.1 per cent to 569p on late rumours that Springer Science & Business Media could return with a higher offer. Earlier this month Informa rebuffed a 630p-a-share from Springer....
...Its shares added 4.6 per cent to 469½p in spite of talk that boiler cracking at its Hunterston B and Hinkley Point B power stations is worse than previously thought....
...But ProSiebenSat1 fell 2.4 per cent to €14.50 after Germany’s competition watchdog dented hopes of a speedy approval to publisher Axel Springer’s takeover of the television broadcaster....
...With David it’s an R&B thing.” And Boris? “Boris will be a rapper. You must have seen that headscarf when he was out jogging?”...
...KILLING MR LEBANON: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and Its Impact on the Middle East by Nicholas Blanford I.B....
...Charlotte B-R BB: Abortion and gay rights are hardly controversial topics any more, even in the CDU....
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