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...He compares Scotland’s relative lack of current top-level talent to the period around 2000 when Lee Westwood was the only Englishman in the world’s top 100 golfers – at the time there were four Scots on...
Independent retailers attract shoppers to Yorkshire town
Industry fears flurry of new regulations could hit returns for investors
...Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah, said if Republicans in both houses “simply refuse to vote” for an upcoming budget resolution in September, “we can stop” the law’s core mandate, for individuals...
...Robert Orr reports...
...Robert Orr finds out if they succeeded....
Speaking at the Monaco Yacht Show, Richard Beattie explains to the FT's Victor Mallet why Big Fish sets the benchmark for a new generation of exploration yachts
Speaking at the Monaco Yacht Show, Henk de Vries, director of Feadship, the Dutch superyacht manufacturer, tells the FT's Victor Mallet that a recovery in the market is still some way off
The Monaco Yacht Show is where yacht makers, designers and brokers traditionally meet to market the world's biggest and most expensive superyachts. But where are the buyers?
Speaking at the Monaco Yacht Show, superyacht designer Ed Dubois, founder of Dubois Naval Architects, tells the FT's Victor Mallet that the new breed of high-end sailing yachts can now match even the most expensive motor yachts for comfort and style
...Michael Lee, the ORR’s director of railway planning and performance, said the concerns boiled down to the late running of the project....
Although women in the UK are half as likely to start their own businesses as men, a growing number are choosing to do so. Jonathan Moules reports
...Michael Lee, the ORR’s director of railway planning and performance, said last week that East Coast Trains was not delivering the level of performance the regulators would expect, although he acknowledged...
...Michael Lee, the ORR’s director of access, planning and performance, added that the functioning of one of the most troublesome pieces of equipment – a new design of points for switching trains from one track...
...Michael Lee, ORR’s director of planning and performance, said: “A few years ago all of the old slam-door trains running into London from the south were replaced....
...Analyst Andrew Lee wrote in a note: “The current price/earnings rating of 24 times is a 25 per cent-plus premium to the sector, despite its lack of any property assets and the pending smoking ban impact...
...The credit checking company is rumoured to have turned down a £7bn bid from private equity groups Thomas H Lee and Bain prior to being spun-out of GUS last year....
...Experian was rumoured to have been the subject of a £7bn bid from Thomas H Lee and Bain before being demerged from GUS in October....
...Earlier this year, GUS was reported to have turned down a £7bn bid from private equity groups Thomas H Lee and Bain for Experian. The shares rose 2.3 per cent to 599½p....
...Another investor is Daron Lee, who founded and sold Proquote, the online stock market information group, to London Stock Exchange three years ago....
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