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...UK authorities have found no evidence of modern slavery offences in the first round of inspections on Boohoo subcontractors in Leicester, underlining the challenge of tackling allegations about the city’...
...That’s why, rather than making an offensive and overblown claim that equated games studios to Leicester sweatshops, we used the phrase “a few parallels”....
...By accepting the need to rebuild Leicester’s reputation, boohoo is stepping up to the plate, rather than brushing this aside....
...Sarah O’Connor’s work on Leicester dark factories in 2018 brought all of this stuff to the surface and shareholders, frankly, didn’t give a shit....
...Cheese Day and to mark this occasion there’s a press release through from Gousto, a company that sells recipe boxes presumably including cheese: Revealed: The UK's Favourite Lockdown Cheese It’s Red Leicester...
...At the cusp of the tourist dead zone between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, Bentley’s has been doing nothing complicated for more than a century....
...tourist dead zone between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, Bentley’s has been doing nothing complicated for more than a century.”...
...There’s no metro stop for the flaming hoodoos of Bryce Canyon. Only ribbons of road....
...Hammerson was down 3.7 per cent to 563p after raising £399m via a so-called cash box placing at 560p apiece, which will fund investments including taking full control of Leicester’s Highcross shopping centre...
...The FTSE 100 closed up 0.7 per cent to 5,300.4, boosted by news that Alliance & Leicester had agreed a £1.3bn all-share takeover bid from Spain’s Santander....
...Goldman Sachs repeated a “conviction sell” rating on Alliance & Leicester, down 12.4 per cent to 255½p, in a sector note that weighed against the wider European banking sector....
...Alliance & Leicester shed 5.2 per cent to 403p, while Barclays eased 2.5 per cent to 365½p and Lloyds TSB slipped 1.8 per cent to 377¼p....
...Morgan Stanley responded by removing its “underweight” rating on BB and also Alliance & Leicester, 7.1 per cent higher at 315½p, saying Resolution’s move showed financial investors were “starting to see...
...Alliance & Leicester slumped to a record low on Tuesday after one of the City’s most bearish banking analysts advised clients to keep on selling....
...Although Alliance & Leicester, off 0.5 per cent to 416¼p, would offer better synergies, a move for B&B would be “pure financial opportunism”, he argued....
...Alliance & Leicester, down 0.4 per cent to 420¼p, also seems certain to drop into the FTSE 250 index, with Home Retail Group and Tate & Lyle both on the cusp of relegation....
...Meanwhile, Alliance & Leicester added 3.1 per cent to 412½p on hopes that a private equity group might approach the mortgage lender with an offer to buy a stake....
...Alliance & Leicester fell 5.7 per cent to 304¼p and Barclays dipped 3.2 per cent to 315¾p....
...Another company likely to loose its place in the blue chip index is Alliance & Leicester, down 3.2 per cent to 399½p. Its position looks like going to miner Ferrexpo, up 2.1 per cent to 407p....
...Alliance & Leicester, off 12¾p to 364½p, and Persimmon, easier by 18½p to 428¾p, are already certain to go down with their spots taken by Ferrexpo, up 2 per cent to 442¼p, and Invensys, off 14½p to 307½p...
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