RSA Insurance announced this morning that rival insurer Zurich has tabled a £5.5 billion ($US8.6 billion) offer for the company, following takeover talks first announced last month.
Waitrose, the upmarket supermarket owned by the John Lewis Partnership, also performed well, with sales rising 3.7% to GBP1.26 billion and its market share improving to 5.1% from 4.9%. Sainsbury’s market share fell to 16.3% from 16.4% but sales rose 0.1% to GBP4.06 billion,...
Ms Cooper is locked in a bitter battle with Mr Burnham to emerge as the main challenger to Mr Corbyn, while the other contender Liz Kendall lags behind in fourth place. We need people dedicated to their brief who are able to work co-operatively with the party to set out a shared...
“If we don’t find a solution, we will have to do bridge financing”, he said, referring to a short-term loan so Greece can make its next debt payment on August 20.
In Berlin, the government said it expected Athens to press ahead with its reform agenda and the finance ministry said aid disbursements would be delayed should the elections cause any delay in an examination of the programme.
Police are now searching for a “foreign” man who was seen on CCTV footage leaving his backpack behind at the site of the explosion just minutes before it occurred.
The migrant emergency in the Balkans has shifted to Serbia, where hundreds are arriving every day after Macedonia decided not to block the border with Greece, resulting in an improvement of the situation along the Gevgelija border.
The biggest fire burning Monday was in Okanogan County on the Canadian border, where a group of five fires raging out of control became the largest in state history, scorching more than 400 square miles, fire spokesman Rick Isaacson said.