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A group of LSEG investors including Blackstone and Thomson Reuters are offloading a four per cent stake in the firm worth £1.9bn, the London Stock Exchange owner has said today.…

Who is the Premier League player of the year? If you ask Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola, it’s Phil Foden. But while Foden would make my shortlist, he wouldn’t be…

Former Grand Slam tennis champion Simona Halep has seen her four-year doping ban slashed to just nine months. The new, backdated ban means the Romanian is able to resume competition…

UK cinema operators received a boost from spending in 2023 thanks to a year of silver screen blockbusters, according to the latest analysis from Lloyds Bank spending data. Summer sensations…

Law firm partner hires in the first two months of 2024 ran at the second highest pace on record. According to data provided by legal recruiter, Edwards Gibson, there were…

The government will reportedly extend a Covid recovery loan programme by two years in a boon to Britain’s small businesses. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will expand the government lending programme for…

Gold and bitcoin have hit record high prices in a week headlined by major fiscal statements and ever-heightening geopolitical tensions. Gold bullion rose to $2,141.79 (£1,683.98) an ounce, beating its…

RACING at Happy Valley in Hong Kong today once again serves up a nine-race programme of fiendishly difficult handicaps to solve, starting at 10.40am. Furthermore, there has been an anomaly…

THE WHEELS appear to have temporarily come off the winning-machine stable of trainer Pierre Ng, who – despite still leading the trainers’ championship table by a dozen winners – has…

Hands up, who remembers the pasty tax of 2012?  After then-Chancellor George Osborne aimed to smooth out VAT anomalies on hot food, imposing a 20 per cent levy on Britain’s…