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Another missed payment deadline by 777 Partners, this time to Everton, puts the firm’s takeover of the club into fresh doubt, while one of its airlines has just entered voluntary administration.

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NEW: The private equity buyer of The Body Shop paid just £3.5m upfront for the retail chain before its collapse. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

‘PRs can upload their pieces directly instead’

What a sentence.

Does this mean we have to scan our retinas at reception now?

NEW: Ofwat explores Thames Water carve-up in ‘Project Telford’ rescue plan. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

Jonathan Richman album covers: unbeatable vibe.

Steve Gibson, owner of Middlesbrough FC, and Paul Booth, former chair of SABIC UK, former members of the board that founded Teesworks, call Ben Houchen “totally incompetent” and call for a deal struck three months after they were sacked to be renegotiated: on.ft.com/4aQopjX

A group of Thames Water bondholders has demanded an emergency meeting with the troubled utility’s management, seeking clarity on the situation after its parent company defaulted on its debt this month.

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Former FTX shareholder Thoma Bravo agrees $5bn takeover of Darktrace

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The FT’s very own MJ picking up another ring

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LATEST: South Africa’s minerals resources minister voiced his opposition to BHP’s £31bn proposal to take over Anglo American, fuelling doubts over a deal that would combine two global mining companies.

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We now have an answer to that age-old financial question 'where are the customers' yachts?'

Rich Handler is buying them!

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Chinese woman charged in UK with criminal possession of crypto: ft.com/content/67824c…

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I wonder if Wes talks with this much passion when Fortress successfully executes a loan-to-own on a Dutch shopping mall after providing mezz financing to its troubled owner?