Hedge funds take £162m bet against shares in property giant British Land

Hedge funds take £162m bet against shares in property giant British Land By Neil Craven, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:50 BST, 19 June 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 19 June 2021 Hedge funds have taken a £162million bet against shares in property giant British Land.  Official data shows the value of British Land shares … Read more

Tesco… but no tills: Supermarket giant will launch first checkout-free store 

Supermarket giant Tesco is set to launch its first checkout-free store following in Amazon’s footsteps. The announcement follows successful trials at Tesco’s head office, which saw shoppers scan items with their phone.  Payment was then taken automatically from the customers account as they walked out the store.   Chief executive Ken Murphy said the year-long trial at … Read more

Giant dinosaur skeleton is unearthed in China: 26ft Jurassic monster that’s nearly 70% intact

Giant dinosaur skeleton is unearthed in China: 26ft Jurassic monster that’s nearly 70% intact is discovered in ‘rare’ find dating back 180 million years The fossil, found in Lufeng, south west China, is around 70 per cent complete Termed a ‘national treasure’ by head of the city’s dinosaur conservation centre Fossil believed to date back … Read more

Depop bosses to cash in on takeover by US giant Etsy

£1.2bn! Not bad for a second-hand clothes app: Depop bosses to cash in on takeover by US giant Etsy Simon Beckerman, a 47-year-old British-Italian entrepreneur, who was born in Milan and lives in London, founded Depop in 2011  Beckerman is likely to net a tidy profit along with chief executive Maria Raga, other senior employees and … Read more

US firm designs 520ft mega vessel Galleon with four giant sails and eight decks

If you’re a super-rich seafarer with an avid interest in sports and luxury living, then this mammoth eight-deck superyacht might be the lavish mega vessel for you. The Galleon, the largest design so far in the Goliath Series of superyachts, would provide hours of entertainment with plans showing how it would be fitted out with … Read more

Moment hooded thugs from rival gangs fight with giant MACHETES on quiet residential street in London

Moment hooded thugs from rival gangs fight with giant MACHETES on quiet residential street in London before they flee in getaway car Hooded thugs clash with rival gangs in a machete fight on street in London Video shows yobs squaring up to each other before dashing to getaway car  Terrifying incident took place recently on Dowsett … Read more

Hot SEAT: Spanish car giant appoints its first ever British president

Despite its proud Spanish roots, Iberian car giant SEAT now has a true-blue Briton driving it on. The firm’s new multi-lingual president Wayne Griffiths, 55, is charged with electrifying and expanding the SEAT and sporty Cupra brands.  Significantly, the UK is SEAT’s third largest market after Germany and its home-market Spain. Taking charge: SEAT’s new … Read more

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unfolds its giant mirror ahead of its launch this October

NASA has unfolded the giant mirror of its James Webb Space Telescope ‘like a piece of origami artwork’ one last time ahead of its launch to space in October.  The orbiting observatory has been designed as a successor to the highly successful Hubble space telescope and can see from the near ultraviolet to the near … Read more