A Welsh manufacturer of darts equipment has snapped up a fast-growing technology business that automates scoring, in a deal aimed at reshaping how the sport is played and watched. Nodor, based in Bridgend and backed by private equity firm Inflexion, has acquired Autodarts for an undisclosed sum. The company said the move would help “deliver the most advanced playing, training ...
The British Business Bank (BBB) has announced an £8 million investment into NRG Therapeutics Ltd., a pioneering neuroscience company developing novel therapies for severe neurodegenerative conditions, as part of a £50 million Series B funding round. The financing was led by SV Health Investors’ Dementia Discovery Fund (DDF), with participation from M Ventures, Novartis Venture Fund, and Criteria Bio Ventures, ...
London’s black cab industry has received its biggest ever investment as Sherbet, The Electric Taxi Co, secures up to £40 million in backing to scale its zero-emissions fleet and prepare for global expansion. The funding comes from HOF II Holdco S.à r.l., advised by European private equity firm Hoplon Investment Partners LLP, and represents the single largest injection of growth ...
Britain’s biggest trade unions have warned Labour not to water down its Employment Rights Bill following a cabinet reshuffle that removed some of the legislation’s strongest supporters from government. The bill, expected to become law in the coming weeks, represents one of the most significant shake-ups of workplace rights in decades. It includes new protections against unfair dismissal, the outlawing ...
Britain’s ambition to deliver nationwide 5G coverage risks being derailed as farmers and rural landowners revolt over deep cuts to the rents paid for hosting mobile masts. Rents that once ran into thousands of pounds are being slashed by as much as 90% under laws designed to accelerate the rollout of digital infrastructure. In Cornwall, one farmer said his rent ...
Meta, the social media giant led by Mark Zuckerberg, is preparing to open its first physical store in London as part of a push to drive sales of its virtual and augmented reality devices. Property sources said the company is exploring Oxford Street as the likely location for a permanent flagship space where shoppers can try out products such as ...
President Donald Trump issued his ‘last warning’ to Hamas to accept his deal and release the remaining hostages or face the consequences. ‘Everyone wants the hostages HOME. Everyone wants this War to end,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social. ‘The Israelis have accepted my Terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well.’ ‘I have warned Hamas about the consequences ...
President Donald Trump issued his ‘last warning’ to Hamas to either release the remaining hostages or face the consequences. ‘Everyone wants the hostages HOME. Everyone wants this War to end,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social. ‘The Israelis have accepted my Terms. It is time for Hamas to accept as well.’ ‘I have warned Hamas about the consequences of not accepting,’ ...
Barclays Bank has been hit with a formal complaint alleging anti-Semitism after a customer claimed staff at its Leicester business team unfairly froze his account because of his Israeli residency. In a letter addressed directly to group chief executive CS Venkatakrishnan, journalist Martin Blackham accused the bank of discriminating against him on the basis of his nationality and location. Blackham, ...
America’s so-called allies – Britain, France, Canada, Australia and others – are about to stab President Donald Trump in the back. The goal is to lay waste to the president’s signature foreign policy success – the Abraham Accords. The Abraham Accords denied violent Palestinian rejectionists a veto over the normalization of relations between Arab states and Israel. Now Palestinians and ...