UK Business News

Following yesterday’s post that suggested that Vodafone and O2 were leading the race to buy out T-Mobile UK, the latest turn of events has seen French owned Orange in exclusive talks with T-Mobile owners Deutsche Bank, to merge their UK mobile businesses into the biggest mobile provider in the UK.
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The Sunday Times has reported that mobile phone groups Vodafone and O2 have both tabled bids believed to be in the region of £3.5bn, to purchase the T-Mobile UK business from Deutsche Telecom.
T-Mobile is currently the fourth largest mobile operator in the UK with a fifteen percent share of the market, equating to a 16.6million [...]

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Oil supplier BP have announced a ‘giant’ oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico reaffirming the area’s importance to the Western based oil majors.
BP said in a statement on Wednesday that it had made the find at its Tiber Prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The well was drilled in Keathley Canyon block 102.
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The UK’s largest transport operator FirstGroup have launched a new inter city coach service featuring the Greyhound buses that have become an iconic part of American travel.
Onboard features of the new coach service include leather seating, free wi-fi, air conditioning, free newspapers and up to 20% extra leg room – with 41 seats rather than [...]

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