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A BID battle for control of the UK’s biggest ports operator looks likely to intensify this week with a new offer which is worth almost £2.7bn.
Britannia Ports - a consortium led by Australian bank Macquarie - is reportedly preparing to up the stakes by trumping the agreed offer made last week by Goldman [...]

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Due to scientific uncertainty over a BSE-type disease affecting sheep and goats, the UK’s food regulator is expected to issue today further precautionary advice about eating mutton and to propose EU-wide labelling rules for products containing the meats.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is expected to issue a reworded advice about the issue after [...]

Dublin auction house James Adams is putting works by artist Mark O’Neill under the hammer in their St Stephen’s Green salesrooms on June 28 at 7pm.
The selling exhibition, which starts on Monday, and will run until the auction day, is also viewable at www.adams.ie.
Comprising 55 previously unseen paintings by Mark O’Neill, painted in the last [...]

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Police running Scotland’s knife amnesty were amazed when a worried pensioner handed them his collection of more than 500 letter openers.
The man had spent more than 40 years building the massive hoard.
But he gave it all up because he feared crooks would break into his home, steal the openers and use them as [...]

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The success of two-year-old breeze-up (two-year-old in training) sales in Britain has prompted Irish sales company Goffs to enter the market there for the first time.Goffs made the announcement at a 150-strong party at Home House, London, on Tuesday, June 13 co-hosted by Goffs and Bernard McNamara, owner of the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin, [...]