Business headlines. Us Investment Firm Elliott Advisors has walked away from making a takeover bid for currys after being rejected by the retailers board in its own words multiple times. It had initially proposed an offer that valued the electricals chain at £700 million, and later raised it to 757 million. But currys rebuffed the approaches, saying they significantly undervalued the business. Currys could still receive a bid from chinasjd. Com, which said last month it was mulling an offerfor the firm. Earlier i spoke with russ mould, Investment Director at the stockbrokers aj bell. There is but it it will focus on what the two main shareholders in currys have got to say, redwheel and frasers. Any bid will have to get their approval and one can only assume that wasnt forthcoming this time. They said it undervalued the business. It is rare we are in a position where we are talking about a high street retailer at the centre of a possible bidding war. We thought that bricks and mortar w
train back on the current one? it s trying to get the train back on the tracks, - current one? it s trying to get the train back on the tracks, so the l train back on the tracks, so the government had put into place a very ambitious programme to make farming more sustainable, which is about the only thing people on both sides of the brexit divide could agree was something we could do coming out of europe. it has been going quite well at the michael gove and then george eustice and then we had this car crash or policy announcements, restricting seasonal labour, leaving £60 million of crops in the field, the australian trade deal which didn t protect the standards for the they have now said they will protect them for the rebranding defra is a growth department. all these things and the whole intellectual framework of what they were trying to do with farmers fell apart, and farmers became worried, there was a lot of change and they didn t know what the government was doing an
Forces have declared a narrow coastal strip at al mawasi to be a safe humanitarian zone, but the un says it has no Running Water or proper sanitation. Israel says that since monday, about 300,000 palestinians have already fled rafah. The us is still urging israel not to mount a full scale assault on the city. And in the north, there are evacuations in the city of jabalia as the idf says that it has been carrying out air strikes. It says hamas fighters are regrouping there. Meanwhile, a top eu official, charles michel, has condemned israels evacuation orders, saying people are being directed towards unsafe areas. 0ur middle east correspondent Yolande Knell Reports from jerusalem. Another desperate exodus. Palestinians fleeing in their thousands, as israel signals it is now set to push further into gazas southernmost city, issuing new evacuation orders. What should we do . Hanan asks. Do we wait until we all die on top of each other . Weve decided it is better to leave. Israel has said i
the us state department said real progress had also been made in negotiations to open the border to foreign nationals. we are also hearing reports from gaza s largest telecommunications provider saying that all communications and internet services have again been cut off. that news comes as israel confirmed that it carried out an air strike near the jabalia refugee camp in northern gaza. the hamas run health ministry and a hospital director say at least 50 people were killed israel says its strike killed a senior hamas commander and caused the collapse of hamas underground infrastructure. bbc verify have located the exact position of the blast which you can see here and you can see how built up it is. more now from our international editor jeremy bowen. and a warning, his report contains images some may find distressing. israel says the destruction came from air strikes that killed a senior hamas commander and some of his men. it said hamas was using these civilians as huma
In bottom-up movements towards a more socio-ecological countryside, food is a key driver of territorial dynamics. This was a finding of our research on the ground in phase 1 of the Rural Resilience project. In phase 2, we ask how a top-down tool such as France’s Territorial Food Programmes can help to democratise local food policy.