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Poundland owner secures two extra weeks to ensure retail chain’s survival

US investment firm Gordon Brothers is ‘taking due care’ to consider if one of three bidders has enough funds Poundland’s owner has said it is “taking due care” to consider if one of three bidders had enough funds to ensure its survival after the troubled budget retail chain secured two more weeks to find a deal. The management of Poundland, which employs approximately 12,000 people and operates 600 stores in the UK and Ireland, won approval from the high court for an extension of legal protection from creditors on Thursday morning. Continue reading...

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Sports

Carrick sacked by Manchester United with team in Premier League relegation zone – live

⚽️ Head coach departs after one win in 11 games ⚽️ Carrick was latest fall guy for dysfunctional hierarchy ⚽️ Have any thoughts? Email John “After going through the Moyes season,” writes Hugh, “the dross football of Mourinho and Van Gaal, the moments-years of Solskjaer, the Rangnick surgery that never was, the middling Ten Hag, the baffling Amorim, and now a decent man thrust into the meat grinder, this is the first year it’s been genuinely hard to watch Man Utd with any emotion. “And it’s not because of the football. It’s that the Glazer ownership and Ratcliffe mismanagement has met the Man C

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Entertainment

You can see everything on this list: the 20 most jaw-dropping documentaries – ranked!

Ahead of the UK release of Nathan Fielder’s hotly anticipated Elizabeth Holmes film, we count down the most shocking and affecting true stories ever committed to cinema A 50-second dispatch from daily life blew the whistle on the approaching juggernaut of cinema and its unbeatable horsepower of verisimilitude. But if we must be strictly factual about the iconic Lumière brothers’ short, the anecdote about audience members fleeing their seats in fear of being crushed by the oncoming locomotive probably never happened. Continue reading...

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