The New York Sun owner, Dovid Efune, has begun exclusive talks to buy the Daily and Sunday Telegraph for £550m, the Guardian understands . Efune, a former editor of the New York-based Jewish publication, the Algemeiner Journal, made the highest bid to buy the newspapers last month and has beaten three rivals to become the…
Don’t worry about Labour’s workers’ rights bill, Starmer tells investors Keir Starmer then tells international investors they shouldn’t be worried about Labour’s employment rights bill, introduced last week. Let me be clear, they are “pro-growth”, Starmer insists. Workers with more security at work, with higher wages, is a better growth model for this country, he…
Salford Lads Club, the youth centre immortalised by the Smiths on the sleeve of their third studio album The Queen Is Dead, is under threat of closure. The rising costs of maintaining and running the Grade II-listed building, as well as a drop in grant funding, have left it with a shortfall of about £250,000.…
A coroner has warned that gas piston ottomans could present a risk to life, after a woman died when her bed collapsed on her, trapping her between the mattress and the base. Helen Davey, 39, a mother of two from Seaham in County Durham, died on 7 June when she suffocated after becoming accidentally trapped…
Share Street Signs Asia David Kuo from The Smart Investor and Thomas Fang, Head of China global markets at UBS discuss the Chinese Finance Minister’s press conference on the highly anticipated fiscal stimulus and its impact on the country’s struggling housing market. 06:10 Mon, Oct 14 20244:44 AM EDT Source: www.cnbc.com
A shipping container and gantry cranes at the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai, China, on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — China’s exports grew by 2.4% in September from a year ago in U.S. dollar terms, while imports rose by 0.3%, customs data showed Monday. Both figures were well…
Anthony Albanese has backed Steven Miles’s opposition to nuclear power while joining the Queensland premier on the first day of pre-poll voting in the state election. At a joint press conference in the Gold Coast on Monday, the prime minister was asked about Miles’s plan to hold a plebiscite on nuclear if Labor wins this…
South Australia has launched a bid to host a major UN climate conference in 2026 in Adelaide, with the premier, Peter Malinauskas, declaring it would draw more than 30,000 people and could be worth $500m to the state. Australia is vying with Turkey to host the year-ending climate summit known as Cop31, with a decision…
One half of the Hairy Bikers, Si King, has revealed that the past few months have been a “struggle” after the death of Dave Myers, his co-star and friend of 30 years. Myers, who found fame alongside King as part of the motorcycle-riding cooking duo, died aged 66 in February. In 2022 Myers revealed his…
The former Tory chancellor George Osborne has thrown his weight behind a proposal nicknamed “HS2 light” that would deliver new high-speed train links between Manchester and Birmingham. Osborne said the worst thing Rishi Sunak did as prime minister was cancelling the northern arm of HS2. “It was an act of infrastructure vandalism,” he said. More…
