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EXC: At least 7 vessels exported Iranian oil or related products while holding British insurance from two British shipping insurers.
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We’re in @thetimes today with Enterprise Nation member @MousCase
It’s about the scrapping of a scheme providing grants for small businesses to attend overseas trade shows which has been blamed for a fall in the number of UK firms going to the events: ow.ly/GqZE50W9TA2
Spelthorne council, which invested over £1 billion in properties including BP's main campus, is to be taken over by government-appointed commissioners.
I wrote about bad property bets made by the council and three others in London's commuter belt last year.…
For the first time ever, Rolls-Royce's market cap has surpassed that of BP.
The vast majority of this is down to individual performance.
Though Trump factor - combination of tariffs + European rearmmament likely pushing both over the edge.
CCEP is almost guaranteed to join the FTSE 100 at the next reshuffle.
Combined with the other Coca-Cola bottler already in the index, Coca-Cola HBC, it will mean nearly 2% of the entire FTSE 100 market cap is dedicated to bottling or selling Coca-Cola products…
The Times has partnered with Shadow Fleet Secrets, which shows that more than a third of the tankers in the Shadow fleet were previously owned by European and US shipping companies, producing sales of more than $6 billion.
This includes ship owners from the UK:
with…
Yesterday the defence sec said that the Yantar, a known Russian intelligence ship, was spotted passing through British waters.
It's not the only Russian ship with military links to pass through UK waters since Feb 2022.
With @Effy_Yeomansthetimes.com/uk/defence/art…
AstraZeneca, Britain’s most valuable public company, has made about £45 million in payments to doctors and healthcare organisations in Russia since the war against Ukraine, despite the UK’s growing involvement
With @tomjsthetimes.com/article/ac818f…
The government will force a Chinese tech company to sell its majority stake in a British chipmaker a year after @tomjs, @ltrgoddard and I revealed that microchips it had sold to Russia were found in a tank destroyed in Ukraine.
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A year ago @GeorgeGreenwood, @ltrgoddard and I reported that a UK semiconductor manufacturer, FTDI, bought by a Chinese state-owned entity had supplied chips to Russia - at least one ending up in a Russian Tank.
On the back of our reporting, today the UK…
1/4 Fears of a spill in Gibraltar grow as Russia’s shadow fleet transports oil, writes @tomjs@thetimes, featuring @KSE_Institute study. Tankers over 15 years old raise concerns of a potential environmental disaster in British waters. Details: bit.ly/3Ua7fYd
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