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Direct Line turned down a £3.3bn approach from Aviva in NovemberAviva said the deal will bolster its reach in the UK personal lines market By HARRY WISE Updated: 05:16 EST, 23 December 2024 Aviva has finally struck a deal to acquire fellow insurer Direct Line for £3.7billion, ahead of Christmas Day deadline.Britain’s largest life insurer made a £3.3billion approach in November, but Direct Line turned this down on the grounds that it ‘substantially undervalued’ the company.Having had until 5pm on Christmas Day to agree a concrete proposal, Direct Line’s board said it would support the higher bid.It has now accepted an…
By JOANNE HART Updated: 18:06 EST, 16 November 2024 Packaging is a complex business – but a lucrative one. Annual sales amount to almost £1 trillion and solid growth is forecast, fuelled by demand from food, drink and healthcare companies.Mpac is a minnow in the field, valued on the stock market at about £160 million. But it is focused on the fastest growing sectors of its industry and is expanding at pace.Looking ahead, chief executive Adam Holland is determined to up the tempo, with a five-year plan to double sales by 2028 and do even better on bottom line profits.Armed…
This is the moment a Saudi doctor who drove through a massive crowd at a German Christmas market, killing at least two and injuring nearly 70 people, was arrested.The driver of the car, reported to be a dark BMW, was arrested following the crash which took place at 7:04pm today in the city of Magdeburg, according to unidentified government officials in the state of Saxony-Anhalt who spoke to the dpa news agency. Video footage of the moment appears to show armed police crowding around a dark car and forcing a bearded man to slowly exit. Several cops were seen crowding around the man with…
An 18-year-old Brit faces 20 years in prison in Dubai after being charged with having sex with a then-17-year-old during a family holiday.Marcus Fakana, from Tottenham, London, was held in a notorious UAE prison for days after police heard of his holiday romance from her ‘strict’ mother.The couple ‘had a wonderful time together’ on holiday in August, meeting up in secret as she feared she could not tell her mother she was seeing a boy. They hoped to continue their relationship when they were back in London.But as the girl’s furious mother later found out and told police in Dubai about…
By HARRY BAMFORTH and IAN LADYMAN AT PORTMAN ROAD and CHRIS WHEELER AT PORTMAN ROAD and NATHAN SALT AT PORTMAN ROAD and KIM MORRISSEY Published: 10:07 EST, 24 November 2024 | Updated: 13:32 EST, 24 November 2024 Advertisement Share or comment on this article: Ipswich vs Man United – Premier League: Live score and updates as Red Devils underwhelm in Ruben Amorim’s first match in charge This article was originally published by a www.dailymail.co.uk . Read the Original article here. .
Donald Trump’s return to the White House has brought NATO spending back under scrutiny, with Washington’s warning that Europe should be prepared to defend itself from Russian aggression refocusing minds in Brussels.The United States will ‘no longer tolerate an imbalanced relationship’ regarding the war in Ukraine and will not be taken for ‘suckers’, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said last week as he declared that fellow Nato members should be spending more.The US is by far the biggest spender on defence overall – forking out a total of $967.7billion, equivalent to 3.38 per cent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).The UK…
More than two decades ago when I came to live in Portugal, a surprising number of people asked: ‘Do you speak Spanish already?’Sardines and fado music were known associations to the well-travelled, but many people still thought of Portugal as a region of Spain. Few had heard of the Alentejo, a region of dolmens and vineyards, olive trees and storks that takes up more than a third of the country. Portugal was often called ‘Europe’s best kept secret’.Fast forward to today and the country is on just about every traveller’s lips, with Lisbon usually featuring in the top ten of…
Speaker Mike Johnson has insisted he’s not holding any ‘grudges’ against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for trying to have him fired, but other Republicans are done with the chaos she and her rabble-rousing cohorts have brought on this Congress. ‘I don’t hold grudges. I’ve got to work with everybody. I told her last night before she left the floor, let’s move on, Marjorie,’ Johnson told ‘Fox and Friends’ on Thursday. Johnson told Politico he told Greene on the House floor after the vote: ‘I’m not angry about this. We have to work together. And I want to work with you guys and…
The distraught father attempted to drown his daughter in a riverThe man waded into the river with his two daughters after a family disputeBut rescuers pulled the pair to safety onto a boat in ChinaBy Belinda Robinson Published: 11:15 EDT, 25 May 2014 | Updated: 12:27 EDT, 25 May 2014 This is the moment rescuers pull a man and his daughter onto a boat after the man attempted to commit suicide and drown his daughter in a river following a family row.The harrowing scene unfolded in Qingjiang township of Yueqing, Zhejiang province yesterday.The man who was identified only as Mr…
By RUTH STAINER and HANNAH PHILLIPS Published: 12:00, 27 March 2025 | Updated: 17:00, 27 March 2025 A sneaky traveller managed to successfully avoid paying Ryanair’s baggage fees by creating a fake pregnancy bump.Grace Hale shoved two jackets and a bag full of makeup inside her top after realising they wouldn’t fit in her carry-on baggage.In a viral TikTok video titled ‘It’s a boy and we’re naming him Ryan’ the 20-year-old, who was travelling from London’s Stansted Airport to Edinburgh, showed herself with her fake ‘bump’.After walking through security, she bundled the items inside her top and wore a trench…