ALEX BRUMMER: Canada plots a security coup with G4S

On the day when the future of British technology jewel ARM Holding is on the line, it is hard to get agitated by a Canadian bid for outsourcing group G4S. A succession of scandals since the London Olympics in 2012, when G4S came close to undermining a great celebration of the UK, left its reputation … Read more

Red lights flash as online health and beauty retailer Hut plots float

Red lights flashing as Hut plots £4.5bn float: Investors warned over independence of online health and beauty retailer’s board By James Salmon for the Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 7 September 2020 | Updated: 22:14 BST, 7 September 2020 The independence of The Hut Group’s board directors has been called into question as it gears … Read more

Private equity giant CVC plots bid for TV licence collector Capita

Private equity giant CVC plots bid for Capita after TV licence collector’s share price falls more than 80% this year By Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 2 September 2020 | Updated: 22:18 BST, 2 September 2020 TV licence collector Capita is being circled by private equity barons, the Mail can reveal. … Read more

The Bachelor: Roxi gets competitive while Areeba plots revenge

‘The game is about to get down and dirty’: An explosive preview for The Bachelor shows Roxi Kenny unleash her competitive side while Areeba Emmanuel plots revenge By Kylie Walters For Daily Mail Australia Published: 16:00 BST, 19 August 2020 | Updated: 16:21 BST, 19 August 2020 A shocking new preview for Thursday night’s episode … Read more

Tories rebel as Trade Secretary Liz Truss ‘plots to betray UK farmers’ for Trump deal

A deep split has opened up in the Government over a trade deal with Donald Trump, with the Cabinet Minister in charge of negotiations accused of planning to turn Britain into a ‘pariah state’ by allowing the import of cheap foods pumped with antibiotics and hormones. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has clashed with Environment … Read more

LAURENCE LLEWELYN-BOWEN argues that our treasured plots have never been such a much-needed haven

Well, thank goodness for that! After many long, sunny, spring weeks, Britain’s garden centres have reopened. And it hasn’t come soon enough. All those unmown lawns, privets that need to see a good pair of secateurs, bare patches of land hungry to be planted out — at last they can be tended to. But even … Read more

How Killing Eve’s extravagant kill plots were inspired by real life murders

The hair-rising spy drama Killing Eve drew its inspiration from the murders of real people, it has been revealed.  MI6 consultant Gordon Corera described how he was able to collaborate with the creators of the drama to give avid fans a glimpse of the world of espionage and make the narrative plausible. The drama, which … Read more

He’s back… Woodford plots £500million fund 

He’s back… disgraced Neil Woodford plots £500m private fund – to buy back some of the unquoted biotech stocks that helped topple his empire By Harriet Dennys, Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 09:24 GMT, 8 March 2020 Disgraced fund manager Neil Woodford is in talks about making a spectacular … Read more

Chancellor Rishi Sunak plots a pension lockdown under plans to delay the age to 57 

Millions of savers could have to wait another TWO YEARS to dip into their pensions under amid controversial Treasury plans to raise age for cashing in to 57 Chancellor Rishi Sunak under pressure to raise the minimum pension age to 57  Mr Sunak is due to deliver his first Budget in just weeks on March … Read more