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Waterlogic agrees acquisition of Cool Clear Water
WATERLOGIC, the Aim-quoted maker of water dispensers, is poised to break into the Australian market after agreeing the A$60 million (£38.4m) acquisition of Cool Clear Water (CCW). The firm said CCW, which has more than 11,000 customers, is the only Austr
Valeant ‘nearing’ £6bn Bausch & Lomb deal
CANADA'S Valeant Pharmaceuticals International is understood to be nearing a deal to acquire US eye care company Bausch & Lomb (B&L) in a $9 billion (£6bn) deal. Private equity owner Warburg Pincus is expected to announce an agreement as early...
News Corporation board approve plans to split
THE board of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation yesterday approved plans to split the conglomerate into separate entertainment and publishing businesses. The group set 28 June as the target date for completing the split, and said it would spend $500 milli
Manchester Utd tackle debt with lower interest loan
ENGLISH Premier League winner Manchester United has now trimmed £10 million off the annual interest bill on its debt through a refinancing arranged by Bank of America. The move could free up more cash to help new team manager David Moyes strengthen his t
Raised by dissent: Forging the Industrial Revolution
The roots of everything lie much further in the past than we think. That rule, together with the Universal Law of Unintended Consequences, helps to explain why the Industrial Revolution, the most important episode in modern human history, was dominated b
Gill Hornby on her new novel The Hive
SOMETIMES the skill of being a writer lies in realising your material is right in front of your eyes. Gill Hornby says she knew it as soon as she saw it in the gaggle of mothers outside her little daughter’s new school. “I just turned up expecting it to
Readers’ pictures of the week: 17-24 May
A SELECTION of pictures submitted by our readers in the past week to The Scotsman picture desk. • Douglas Hood’s photograph of Liathach and Beinn Eighe was taken from a rowing boat in the middle of Loch Clair • Sylvia Beaumont took this photograph of the
Interview: Ruthie Henshall’s show must go on
She's been an all singing, all dancing musical theatre star for 27 years, but Ruthie Henshall has always spoken honestly about the tough times. The key, she says, is finding a balance Ruthie Henshall goes out to the front of the theatre after every perfo
Restaurant review: Angel’s Share, Edinburgh
You've sugar-soaped the walls, slicked your living room in Farrow & Ball's Pigeon, put three coats on the ceiling by balancing on high-heels, two copies of the Yellow Pages and a chair, then brushed 24ct gold leaf on to your cornice. Angel’s...
It’s all fright now at The Edinburgh Dungeon
Heart-stopping moments and a spot of gore are guaranteed on a visit to The Edinburgh Dungeon I’m a big scaredy cat. If anything is spooky or frightening on the TV, then I’ll be the one hiding behind the sofa. My eldest daughter Eve, (ten) has been desper
Travel: Roman fort of Vindolanda in Northumberland
The word "holiday" has certain implications: a beach, a blue sea, a hammock, rum-based cocktails with umbrellas in... And a sense of doing very little for a week or two. But the popularity of holidays that categorically do not offer these...
Travel: We’ll take Berlin
Come see the new Waldorf Astoria in Berlin, the invitation read. How new? I asked, stepping into the soaring lobby one sunny March morning. Oh, we opened last week. You'd never know it. The building – 31 storeys and 118 metres high – with its looming tow
Janeites unite at the Jane Austen Society
IN A windowless, strip-lit room hidden behind countless doors and up various corridors at Glasgow's stately Kelvingrove Museum, 30 women (and two men) are talking about Jane Austen. Or “Jane”, as she is fondly known to this bunch. On today’s agenda: a le
Book review: Everest: The First Ascent by Harriet Tuckey
IN EARLY June 1953, two exhausted, scruffy-looking men - the filmmaker Tom Stobart and the physiologist Griffith Pugh - were making their way slowly back to Kathmandu together after taking part in the monumental team effort that had led to the successful
Book reviews: Algerian Chronicles | Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?
WHERE Albert Camus has been concerned, silence has been anything but golden: he's been much castigated for the voiceless Arab characters of L'
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