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Activist investor calls for leadership change at BP

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Mar 2025
BP’s board and chief executive are coming under increasing pressure from Elliott Management as the activist investor meets fellow shareholders to discuss pushing for leadership changes ... The Canadian is trying to revive BP’s fortunes ... Oliver Gill ... .
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The Millennium Dome at 25: giving Greenwich a new lease of life

The Times/The Sunday Times 20 Mar 2025
Desolate, contaminated and toxic ... And they still remember the smell. “I used to go running along the waterfront around the peninsula,” says Oliver Plunkett, chief executive of Buro Happold, the engineering practice behind the project ... UK ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Quarter of London’s Covent Garden sold to Norway’s oil fund

The Times/The Sunday Times 20 Mar 2025
Norway’s oil fund has agreed to buy a 25 per cent stake in Covent Garden for £570 million as its roll-up of some of London’s most prestigious estates continues ... Business & Money. Companies. Related articles ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Apple loses $1 billion a year on television streaming service

The Times/The Sunday Times 20 Mar 2025
The American technology behemoth Apple is said to be losing $1 billion a year on its streaming service as competition with rivals such as Netflix intensifies ... Apple TV+ original programmes include Ted Lasso, The. Business & Money ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Train leasing companies’ profits investigated by regulator

The Times/The Sunday Times 18 Mar 2025
The rail regulator has launched a review of whether the privately owned train leasing companies are acting in the best interests of passengers and taxpayers ... In a letter to the. Business & Money. Companies ... Oliver Gill ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Watchdog investigates auditor over construction firm ISG’s collapse

The Times/The Sunday Times 18 Mar 2025
The accounting industry watchdog has opened an investigation into Macintyre Hudson’s audits of ISG, the construction group that went bust last year ... No further details about what the watchdog wants to look at in particular were shared ... ... ,. Oliver Gill.
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‘Ominous’ sign as UK manufacturing output falls in first quarter

The Times/The Sunday Times 17 Mar 2025
Output in the UK’s manufacturing sector fell in the first three months of the year for the first time since 2016 as the industry was battered by escalating global trade tensions and rising business taxes ... Economics ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Protectionist US, ailing UK economy… Trump’s tariffs have history

The Times/The Sunday Times 17 Mar 2025
William McKinley was a forgotten US president until the re-election of Donald Trump, who appears to be the biggest fan of McKinley, the man he dubs the “tariff king” ... While President Trump. Business & Money. Economics ... DISPATCH ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Housebuilders warn of abandoned sites over £3.4bn Grenfell tax

The Times/The Sunday Times 16 Mar 2025
Britain’s housebuilders have told the chancellor that they will abandon developments across large swathes of the country if the government presses ahead with a £3.4 billion tax on new homes ... JONATHAN BRADY/PA ... He said ... UK. Politics ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Virgin fights ruling that could stop it getting back into trains

The Times/The Sunday Times 16 Mar 2025
Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group is to appeal to regulators over a decision that puts its hopes of running UK train services in peril ... An appeal is being made to the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), the industry regulator ... Advertisement ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Five years of the WFH experiment: is it working?

The Times/The Sunday Times 16 Mar 2025
Five years ago next weekend, we all gathered around the wireless as the prime minister addressed the nation ... From that moment on workers were divided ... WFH ... GETTY IMAGES ... Last month in this newspaper Sir Martyn Oliver went even further ... ALAMY ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Cladding tax threatens UK housebuilding target, says Berkeley Group

The Times/The Sunday Times 14 Mar 2025
One of Britain’s biggest property developers has warned the government that placing another cladding tax on the industry will put “significant pressure” on its ambition of building 1.5 million homes before the end of 2029 ... Companies ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Trainline shares dive despite £75m buyback

The Times/The Sunday Times 13 Mar 2025
A disappointing sales performance has compounded Trainline’s woes as concerns mount that the rail ticketing website’s dominance may be challenged by the launch of a state-backed rival ... However, the FTSE 250 constituent, which ... Oliver Gill ... .
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CMA: new approach does not mean it’s open season for bad deals

The Times/The Sunday Times 12 Mar 2025
A senior official at the competition watchdog has insisted it is not “open season for bad deals” as the regulator launches an effort to bring a more flexible approach to addressing competition concerns raised by mergers ... Oliver Shah ... Oliver Gill ... .
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Toyota unveils three new electric cars to help meet UK and EU targets

The Times/The Sunday Times 12 Mar 2025
Toyota has unveiled three new electric cars for the UK and European market in a belated attempt to avoid zero-emission vehicle penalties under strict rules ... That range of vehicles, the company believes, will cover all the key ... Companies ... Oliver Gill ... .
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