Trading statements – RMC.FRIDAY: Results – Interims: Peel Holdings.. Keith Hamill seems to specialise in complicated situations. As the chairman of Moss Bros, the struggling menswear retailer, he is currently being stalked by Shami Ahmed, the Joe Bloggs fashion entrepreneur who is considering launching a bid. Before that he was the finance director of [...]

Thomas joined him in 1949, taking over The Sepia Swing Club from B.B. King in 1951 and then, three years later, renaming it Hoot’n’Holler. His weekly radio show continued until 1998.Thomas knew a young record producer, Sam Phillips. At first his records were leased to the Chess label in Chicago, but Phillips released “Bear [...]

The deal represents a 27 per cent premium to the latest price of P&O Princess Cruises, which closed at 360p on Friday valuing the company at £2.5bn.Carnival’s move would bring together the largest and second largest cruise operators in the world. This could cause problems with competition regulators which would be concerned at the [...]

I’ve never been offered a chief executive job that I wanted to do. But what did happen is that I was offered quite a lot of chairmanships.”He certainly seems to be enjoying himself He even wants to make time to write creative fiction. “I’d like to have a go at novels, financial thrillers,” he [...]

“But our men lost their lives in martyrdom and therefore they were successful So we don’t think we have been defeated. We have given up some land to Mr Rabbani [of the Northern Alliance] who was there before [between 1992 and 1996]. But when the Americans go home, we’ll have the land back.” It [...]

However, a 6 per cent fall in the company’s shares to 32.6p yesterday put the new options immediately under water.The move, designed to “retain and motivate” key staff, comes just months after Marconi was forced to abandon plans to rebase its existing option scheme priced at 1,603p. A company spokesman said there were two [...]

I was thinking about Daddy and I was thinking about him watching us.”After the young Maddisons had handed their posy to the Queen, the service began. The Prime Minister and his wife, Cherie, were there, with representatives of the other main parties. The Queen was accompanied by Prince Philip and the Prince of Wales, [...]

They believe the move will lead to a “redistribution” of students to established universities, rather than to a massive increase in numbers.Margaret Hodge, the Minister for Universities, told universities it was “timely and right” to have a debate over lifting the restriction. Privately though, officials are stressing that the move would mean vice-chancellors would [...]

Sources in the public prosecutor’s office said he would be looking at physical and other evidence which appeared to corroborate at least part of Ms Mulder’s story.Ms Mulder, born in the Netherlands in 1968, was for many years among the 10 best-paid models in the world. She retired a year ago and is currently [...]

Now I have no desire to get on a motorbike again.”He responds calmly and thoughtfully when I allude to the rumours about the cast “doing a Friends” and demanding exorbitant fees.”Our fees have gone up and I’m happy to say that it’s well paid,” he says “It’s all about market rate. I don’t know [...]