Month: August 2023

One of Britain’s biggest lenders to small businesses is hatching plans for a £3.5bn tie-up with the Co-operative Bank. Sky News has learnt that Shawbrook Group has approached the owners of the Co-operative Bank in recent weeks to outline plans for a stock-based combination of the two companies. Sources said this weekend that the preliminary
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Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, has been arrested after he was sentenced to three years in prison for illegally selling state gifts, his lawyer said. Police were seen surrounding his residence in Lahore on Saturday after the verdict was released. The 70-year-old former cricketer was sentenced after he was found guilty of unlawfully selling
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Donald Trump has described being indicted as a “truly great badge of honour” – and suggested further criminal charges could help him win next year’s election. Speaking to Republicans in Alabama, the former president said he goes up in the polls every time an indictment is filed, describing the allegations against him as “fake” and
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A US publishing executive has died after a boating accident off Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Adrienne Vaughan fell into the water when a rented motorboat she was on with her family crashed into a sailboat that was carrying more than 80 tourists on Thursday, reports said. The 45-year-old was pulled out of the water and brought
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Boris Johnson has vowed to do “whatever it takes” to protect newts that have threatened his plans to build an outdoor swimming pool at his Oxfordshire country manor. The former prime minister promised to build a “Newtopia”, consisting of “newt motels”, for the amphibians who have taken residence at the Grade II-listed Brightwell Manor he shares with
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Breaking Bad actor Mark Margolis has died at the age of 83, his family has announced. The performer “passed away following a short illness” at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City on Thursday, relatives said in a statement. His son Morgan and wife Jacqueline were at his bedside when he died. Margolis appeared in
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