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The nation went to the polls. Engineering works compounded the misery of passengers on the South Western Railway where the RMT union is holding a strike until the end of the year. Leatherhead was utterly cut off. Hundreds of Greater Anglia services were cancelled when a signals failure turned into problems with rolling stock. After 22 years, Virgin Trains relinquished the franchise to run the West Coast Main Line, which was granted to Avanti West Coast, a partnership between Aberdeen-based firm FirstGroup and Italy’s Trenitalia. All 27,000 chickens on a farm in Suffolk were culled after cases of avian influenza were found.
Vernon Unsworth, a British caver who helped in last year’s rescue of trapped Thai schoolboys, had not been defamed when the billionaire Elon Musk called him a ‘pedo guy’, a Los Angeles jury found. His lawyers argued that the term was an insult, not an accusation. Unredacted documents waved around by Jeremy Corbyn as ‘evidence that under Boris Johnson the NHS is on the table and will be up for sale’ had been uploaded as ‘part of a campaign that has been reported as originating from Russia’, according to Reddit, a forum website, which suspended 61 accounts.
Gross domestic product neither grew nor shrank between August and October. The M&G Property Portfolio announced a temporary suspension of withdrawals; nervous investors withdrew money from other property funds. Lindsay Page, the chief executive of Ted Baker, appointed in April, resigned as the fashion retailer’s profits fell. Lord Saatchi resigned from M&C Saatchi after shares tumbled and an accounting blunder overstated profits by £11.6 million. Shareholders in the haulage company Eddie Stobart approved a rescue plan by which its largest shareholders, DBay Advisors, will lend it £55 million and assume control.
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