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Mitie agrees £3.1bn takeover by OCS in blow to London stock market
Mitie has agreed to a £3.1bn takeover by rival facilities management firm OCS Group, bringing to an end nearly four decades as a London-listed company and making it the latest in a lengthening list of UK firms to leave the stock market this year. The board of the government contractor, which counts defence, health and…
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I bought a freehold house but still pay hundreds in service charges: Warning signs to beware
Homeowner Caroline Beddows bought a freehold house in Lancashire in 2016 specifically to avoid the leasehold fees and ground rent she had read about, only to discover months later that she still owed annual estate management charges. These “estate rent charges” are a little-known feature of many new-build freehold estates, where developers or management companies…
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UK Sticks With Lisa Nandy As Culture Secretary, With Paramount-Warner & BBC Decisions Looming
Andy Burnham, the UK’s new prime minister, has confirmed Lisa Nandy will remain culture secretary rather than being moved in a reshuffle, despite widespread speculation to the contrary. Her continued tenure means she will extend her time at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport beyond two years, making her the longest-serving culture secretary since…
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How Australia failed Kumanjayi Little Baby: Ex-top cop reveals how country let down little girl, five, before she was abducted and allegedly murdered
A former senior police officer has said that Australian authorities and child protection systems failed a five-year-old girl, referred to as Kumanjayi in line with Indigenous naming protocols, in the period before she was abducted and allegedly murdered. The case has prompted renewed scrutiny of how child welfare services in the Northern Territory identify and…
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Russian warship carries out live-firing war games off PLYMOUTH as British and French military track frigate through English Channel
A Russian warship conducted live-firing exercises in the English Channel off the coast of Plymouth, prompting British and French naval forces to track the vessel as it moved through UK waters. The exercise underscores continuing tensions between Russia and NATO countries, with such manoeuvres by Russian naval vessels near British shores now a recurring feature…
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Gaza celebrates World Cup victory of Spanish team they took into their hearts
Spain’s Spanish football team’s World Cup victory has been celebrated across Gaza, where the tournament became entangled with regional politics due to Spain’s vocal criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank, and Israeli support for finalists Argentina. Palestinians gathered in cafes and at outdoor screenings, many waving Spanish flags, despite the ongoing…
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Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
A Google Cloud outage last week has highlighted how difficult it remains for customers to understand the true resilience of hyperscale cloud services, according to industry analysts. The incident, caused by an upstream power failure that triggered a cooling failure at a single datacentre in the europe-west4-a zone, disrupted three services for 15 hours, revealing…
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Burnham becomes prime minister as Starmer resigns, Trump pledges support
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OVH reveals semi-secret plan to fix critical Januscape bug with mass reboots – and an Australian crash-test dummy
OVH has disclosed how it patched Januscape (CVE-2026-53359), a critical guest-host escape flaw in the Linux KVM hypervisor that could let an attacker with root access to a virtual machine take control of the host server or hijack other tenants’ VMs. Because such a bug threatens the isolation clouds promise customers, the French provider treated…